“…Interestingly, it has been found that colonization of plants by certain specific plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can lead to enhanced resistance to abiotic challenges, such as water deficit (Naveed et al, 2014), salinity (Sziderics et al, 2007), adaptation to transplantation (Nowak and Shulaev, 2003), and chilling (Ait Barka et al, 2006). Over the last few years, several studies have reported the ability of isolated microorganisms to induce plant tolerance to salinity once they have been inoculated to seeds or young plantlets (reviewed in Yang et al, 2009; Dodd and Pérez-Alfocea, 2012; Shrivastava and Kumar, 2015), including a variety of hosts, like wheat (Nadeem et al, 2013; Singh et al, 2015), maize (Hamdia et al, 2004; Nadeem et al, 2009), cotton (Liu et al, 2013; Egamberdieva et al, 2015), tomato (Mayak et al, 2004; Ali et al, 2014), lettuce (Barassi et al, 2006; Kohler et al, 2009), sunflower (Shilev et al, 2010; Tewari and Arora, 2014) and Arabidopsis (Zhang et al, 2008; Kim et al, 2014; Sukweenadhi et al, 2015). Among the PGPR that have been demonstrated to play a role in salt stress tolerance induction, a wide diversity of bacteria is included, encompassing several members of the γ-proteobacteria class, specially within the genus Pseudomonas (Ahmad et al, 2013; Nadeem et al, 2013; Chang et al, 2014; Han et al, 2015), α-proteobacteria belonging to the Azospirillum genus (del Amor and Cuadra-Crespo, 2011; Nia et al, 2012; Sahoo et al, 2014), and β-proteobacteria like Achromobacter (Mayak et al, 2004) or Paraburkholderia (Talbi et al, 2013; Pinedo et al, 2015).…”