“…When such requirements are not adequately met, null or undesirable effects in plant growth have been observed in other systems (Xie et al, 1996; Persello-Cartieaux et al, 2003). On the other hand, a case for the involvement of ACC deamination as the main bacterial modulator of growth and tolerance to saline stress in plants is supported by examples involving AcdS mutants of Pseudomonas species (Cheng et al, 2012; Ali et al, 2014; Han et al, 2015) but, for the most part of the reports in literature, the actual extent of the contribution of this bacterial enzyme to salinity tolerance induction in the host is not explored in detail, and has been mostly inferred from the existence of a functional AcdS in active bacterial isolates (Onofre-Lemus et al, 2009; Ahmad et al, 2013; Chang et al, 2014; Singh et al, 2015). However, it is worth noting that, in several cases, high ACC deaminase activity levels in isolates do not correlate with a better performance in salinity tolerance induction (Zheng et al, 2008; Tank and Saraf, 2010; Tiwari et al, 2011; Liu et al, 2013; Mapelli et al, 2013; Ramadoss et al, 2013), or even growth promotion activity in general (Dey et al, 2004; Long et al, 2008; Bruto et al, 2014).…”