1. Priming of plant defences by PGPR against fungal and bacterial plant foliar pathogens / Alan C. Cassells and Susan M. Rafferty-McArdle -- 2. The management of soil quality and plant productivity in stressed environment with rhizobacteria / Dilfuza Egamberdieva -- 3. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria as alleviators for soil degradation / Metin Turan, Ahmet Esitken, and Fikrettin Sahin -- 4. Microbial products soil stresses / Mohammad Miransari -- 5. Interactions between legumes and rhizobia under stress conditions / Javier A. Andres, Marisa Rovera, Lorena B. Guinazu, Nicolas A. Pastor, and Susana B. Rosas -- 6. Cold-tolerant PGPRs as bioinoculants for stress management / Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Shekhar Chandra Bisht, Jaideep Kumar Bisht, and Jagdish Chandra Bhatt -- 7. Hormonal signaling by PGPR improves plant health under stress conditions / Chaitanya Kumar Jha and Meenu Saraf -- 8. Microbial ACC-deaminase biotechnology: perspectives and applications in stress agriculture / Sajid Mahmood Nadeem, Maqshoof Ahmad, Zahir Ahmad Zahir, and Muhammad Ashraf -- 9. Rhizobacterial ACC deaminase in plant growth and stress amelioration / D. Saravanakumar -- 01. Bacterial mediated alleviation of abiotic stress in crops / Govindan Selvakumar, Periyasamy Panneerselvam, and Arakalagud Nanjundaiah Ganesharmurthy -- 11. Rhizobacteria mediated induced systemic tolerance in plants: prospects for abiotic stress management / Birinchi Kumar Sarma, Sudheer Kumar Yadav, Dhananjaya Pratap Singh, and Harikesh Bahadur Singh -- 21. PGPR for protection of plant health under saline conditions / Naveen K. Arora, Sakshi Tewari, Sachin Singh, Nand Lal, and Dinesh K. Maheshwari -- 31. PGPR as inoculants in management of lands contaminated with trace elements / Stefan Shilev, Mladen Naydenov, Maria Sancho Prieto, Nikolay Vassilev, and Enrique D. Sancho -- 41. The use of ACC deaminase to increase the tolerance of plants to various phytopathogens / Leonid Chernin and Bernard R. Glick -- 51. Nutrient availability and management in the rhizosphere by microorganisms / Dinesh K. Maheshwari, Sandeep Kumar, NarendraK. Maheshwari, Dhara Patel, and Meenu Saraf