Biocontrol, plant growth-promoting, and bioremediation potential of Aeromonas veronii CMF from the gut of Chrysomya megacephala

Abstract

Gut symbiont A. veronii CMF, with integrated antifungal (chitinase, protease, and β−1,3-glucanase activity), plant growth-promoting (including plant root colonizing potential), and bioremediational attributes can be harnessed as a biotechnological tool for sustainable agriculture and human welfare by fulfilling several sustainable developmental goals. On the basis of such multidimensional gut symbiotic attributes which are validated through genomic-phenotypic observations during this study, it can be suggested that this gut symbiont can perform the host beneficial attributes in the plant rhizosphere, i.e., the “plant gut system” and consequently act as “plant gut symbionts.”