applied microbiology, biofertilizer, functional food, microbial biotechnology, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, probiotic, rhizosphere, secondary metabolite; soil microbiology, soil pollution, solubilization, wastewater treatment, plant microbe-interaction, antimicrobial resistance, host-microbe interactions, environmental diversity, food microbiology, microbial physiology & metabolism, systematics, genomic microbiology and microbial evolution, eukaryotic microorganisms