“…A literature survey revealed an increasing number of examples where plant inoculation with compatible strains' mixtures of P. fluorescens and plant mutualistic bacteria (Sundaramoorthy and Balabaskar, 2012;Sundaramoorthy and Balabaskar, 2013;Rathi et al, 2015;Kumar et al, 2016;Sharma et al, 2018) or benefi cial fungi including species of Trichoderma (Thilagavathi et al, 2007, Jain et al, 2012Singh et al, 2013aSingh et al, , 2013bSingh et al, , 2014Ruano-Rosa et al, 2014;Thakkar and Saraf, 2015;Chemelrotit et al, 2017;Patel et al, 2017;Yadav et al, 2017;Jambhulkar et al, 2018), Beauveria (Karthiba et al, 2010;Senthilraja et al, 2013), Pochonia (Siddiqui et al, 2003) and Clonostachys (Karlsson et al, 2015) showed better results than inoculation with individual strains or control treatment, under controlled and fi eld conditions. Furthermore, co-inoculation of specifi c Pseudomonas strains that function as mycorrhiza helper bacteria (MHB) in combination with various arbuscular mucorrhiza fungi (AMF) promoted the growth of maize plants in fi eld conditions better than single AM inoculation (Berta et al, 2014).…”