Strength of microbes in nutrient cycling: A key to soil health

Abstract

Nowadays, due to continuous degradation in soil quality, a healthy soil system is the result of a complex network of physical, chemical, and biological soil quality indicators. Healthy soils provide a balance between the needs of both farmers and community. Soil organic matter (SOM) helps to sustain the soil health as well as its quality, inactivate toxic compounds, suppress pathogens, and protect environmental sustainability. It implies interactions among the soil's internal and external components for the sustainable food production system. The efficient soil microbes play an important role, since they are responsible to drive various biological transformations and different pools of carbon (C) and macro- and micronutrients, which facilitate the subsequent establishment of soil-plant-microbe interaction. The diversity of microbes in soil system is enormous. This article emphasizes the role of microbes for soil health through the decomposition of SOM present in soil system. Toward the global knowledge of soil microbial dynamics, its function is increasing rapidly, but the knowledge of rhizospheric complex is limited, despite of their importance in regulating soil-plant systems.