The association of actinomycetes with plants is found to confer many advantages such as the production of antimicrobials, extracellular enzymes, phytohormones and siderophores Recently, beneficial plant-endophytic actinomycetes interactions have been the subject of a considerable amount of research.
Although plant growth promotion by endophytic bacteria and fungi has been widely reported, there is scant literature on the use of endophytic actinomycetes for plant growth promotion.