“…Halotolerant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria are now well known for their capability to tolerate and mitigate salinity stress in plants. Several species of HT-PGPR such as Arhrobacter, Azospirillum, Alcaligenes, Bacillus, Burkholderia, Enterobacter, Microbacterium, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Streptomyces, Rhizobium and Pantoea have been reported to alleviate salt stress in crops (Abbas et al, 2019;Arora et al, 2020). In a study by Nadeem et al (2013), inoculation of wheat by HT-PGPR Pseudomonas putida, Enterobacter cloacae, Serratia ficaria, and Pseudomonas fluorescens sown in naturally saline fields (ECe = 15 dS m −1 ) significantly enhanced germination percentage, germination rate and index of wheat seeds by 43, 51, and 123%, respectively, as compared to untreated control.…”