“…Implementation of sustainable agriculture is a viable alternative to meet these challenges as it involves the development of cost effective, eco-friendly and high efficiency procedures (Malusá et al, 2012;DeLonge et al, 2016;Busby et al, 2017;Prasad et al, 2017;El-Ghamry et al, 2018;Adisa et al, 2019;Elemike et al, 2019;Kumari and Singh, 2019). The use of biofertilizers is a very promising sustainable practice since they improve water use efficiency, increase crop yields from 10 to up to 40 % (Bhardwaj et al, 2014), reduce chemical fertilization (35 to 50 %) without compromising crops yield (Kumar et al, 2009;Isfahani and Besharati, 2012;Aggani, 2013;Saeed et al, 2015a, b;Nurbaity et al, 2016;Guardiola-Márquez et al, 2019), and improve plant resistance to adverse environmental conditions (Jochum et al, 2019;Ojuederie et al, 2019). Beneficial microorganisms from biofertilizers colonize the rhizosphere and root system of the plant and promote growth through different mechanisms such as siderophores production, atmospheric nitrogen fixation, solubilization of minerals (phosphorus, potassium), and production of phytohormones (auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins) and enzymes (phosphatases, catalases) (Vessey, 2003;Bardi and Malusa, 2012;Malusa and Vassilev, 2014;Alori et al, 2017;Mahanty et al, 2017;El-Ghamry et al, 2018;Gouda et al, 2018).…”