“…Interaction between PPFMs and host plants varies widely, right from rhizospheric symbiotic (Jourand et al, 2004) to epiphytic (Omer, Tombolini, & Gerhardson, 2004) and endophytic (Lacava, Ara ujo, Marcon, Maccheroni, & Azevedo, 2004). PPFMs are isolated by using leaf impinting method in AMS agar media (Corpe, 1985) from various plants like mustard (Subhaswaraj, Jobina, Parasuraman, & Siddhardha, 2017) neem (Kumar & Lee, 2009), rice (Joel, Latha, Gopal, & Sreedevi, 2023), cotton (Ismail & Mohammed, 2023), capsicum (Santosh, Santosh, & Sreenivasa, 2019), bamboo (Madhaiyan and Poonguzhali, 2014) and also from human nasal cavity and hair scalp (Uy et al, 2013).Various studies have reported that PPFMs colonize plant surfaces in a mucilaginous layer (Rossetto et al, 2011). PPFMs have the ability to form biofilms (Rossetto et al, 2011;Chowdhury, Basak, & Islam, 2023).…”