Executive Summary : | The main target of the proposed study is to exhaustively study the wheat microbiome that is key toleverage crop production in a sustainable way, to define the different factors that drive microbiome assembly in wheat, including crop management, edaphic-environmental conditions and hostselection. Secondly recovery of soil from Fe deficient soil within Indian states which are major wheat cultivators and development of bio-formulations to enhance nutrient acquisition in wheat plant. It isan attractive strategy to utilize meta-genomic sequencing approach to explore the functional potency of siderophore producing strains which will help in the development of microbial inoculants, through the application of synthetic communities (bioinoculants) and/or via optimizationof agricultural practices to stimulate the beneficial indigenous microbial communities(biostimulation). |