“…Highest growth parameters were recorded in seeds treated with Trichoderma. This may be due to Trichoderma strains are always associated with plant roots and root ecosystems that increases uptake of nitrates and other ions that frequently enhances root growth and development, crop productivity, resistance to abiotic stresses (Arora et al, 1992). Trichoderma strains as plant symbiont opportunistic avirulent organisms, able to colonize plant roots by mechanisms similar to those of mycorrhizal fungi and to produce compounds that stimulate growth and plant defence mechanisms.…”