**Author details**

Adnan Mustafa1,2, Muhammad Naveed2 , Qudsia Saeed<sup>3</sup> , Muhammad Nadeem Ashraf<sup>1</sup> , Azhar Hussain4 , Tanveer Abbas<sup>2</sup> , Muhammad Kamran<sup>5</sup> , Nan-Sun<sup>1</sup> and Xu Minggang<sup>1</sup> \*

1 National Engineering Laboratory for Improving Quality of Arable Land, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

2 Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

3 College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, P.R. China

4 Department of Soil Science, University College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

5 Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

\*Address all correspondence to: xuminggang@caas.cn

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*Application Potentials of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria and Fungi as an Alternative… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.86339*
