Exploring the beneficial interactions between plant and endophytes could be an effective strategy in the implementation of sustainable agricultural practices to enhance crop productivity. In this study, we aimed to evaluate holistically the plant growth promoting (PGP) abilities rendered by seed-transmitted endophytic bacteria isolated from in vitro grown calli of two rice cultivars. Nine bacterial endophytes, designated as PB001-PB009, were isolated and identified at the genus level through 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Biochemical investigations disclosed that they possess several PGP traits, such as phosphate solubilization, indole acetic acid biosynthesis, ammonia production, nitrogen fixation, amylase production and siderophore production. Results in gnotobiotic conditions revealed an increase in fresh weight, dry weight, root length and shoot length of seedlings germinated from endophyte-primed seeds than the control (uninoculated) set in a non-host and two host rice cultivars. In net house experiments, plants germinated from Micrococcus sp. PB001, Pseudomonas sp. PB002, Methylobacterium sp. PB005 and Methylorubrum sp. PB009 primed seeds showed an increase of upto 34.06 %, 38.77 %, 182.87 %, 16.59 % and 33.52 % in chlorophyll content, number of tillers/plant, number of grains/plant, grain size and grain weight, respectively than control plant sets in the non-host rice cultivar, further validating inter-cultivar PGP abilities of these endophytes. Metabolite profiling unfolded the abundance of few metabolites that are involved in pathways associated with PGP traits, in seedlings germinated from the endophyte-primed seeds. Together, the study documents the effect of seed-transmitted endophytic bacteria on intra- and inter-cultivar PGP by modulating certain sets of metabolites in rice plant, and is promising in developing bioinoculant formulations employing these selected endophytes for enhancement of rice productivity.
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