“…KSMs have been isolated from rhizospheric soil of various plants and from K-bearing mineral (Parmar and Sindhu 2013;Zhang et al 2013), feldspar (Sheng et al 2008), potato-soybean cropping sequence (Biswas 2011), Iranian soils (Zarjani et al 2013), ceramic industry soil (Prajapati and Modi 2012), mica core of Andhra Pradesh (Gundala et al 2013), common bean (Kumar et al 2012), biofertilizers (Zakaria 2009), sorghum, maize, bajra, chili (Archana et al 2013), cotton, tomato, soybean, groundnut, and banana (Archana et al 2012), soil of Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang Province (China) (Hu et al 2006), rice (Muralikannan 1996), tea (Bakyalakshmi et al 2012), Valencia orange (Shaaban et al 2012), black pepper (Sangeeth et al 2012), potato (Abdel-Salam and Shams 2012), thyme (Yadegari et al 2012), eggplant (Han and Lee 2005), peanut and sesame (Youssef et al 2010), and tobacco (Subhashini and Kumar 2014). Better crop performance was reported to be achieved from several horticultural plants, vegetables, and cereals, which were successfully inoculated with KSMs (Singh et al 2010;Basak and Biswas 2012;Prajapati et al 2013).…”