Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merril) is an Asiatic
leguminous plant, occupying large acreages of land
worldwide for its oil and protein. However, due to
extreme diversity of pathogens and serious diseases
severe plant losses and yield reductions are common in
susceptible cultivars of soybean [19]. Inspite of
increased numbers of reports about beneficial traits of
endophytic microbes to crop plants protecting their
host against predators and pathogens, there is the
dearth of information regarding combined effects of
different endophytic bacteria on the management of
soil borne fungal pathogens in soybean (Glycine max).
Hence, with the view of plant health and productivity
the present studies on screening of antagonistic and
plant growth promoting potentials of indigenous
bacterial endophytes of soybeans (CV.JS-353) have
been carried out