Over the past 50 years, the world’s population has increased and doubled to over 7.5 billion people. As a result, the demand for food is rising quickly, and the food production sector faces significant challenges in providing a potential energy food supply. The main sources of food production are agriculture and fisheries. More than 820 million people experience food scarcity or lack of access to food, as the population suffering from food insecurity has climbed from 15% in 2000 to over 17% recently.^1,2 Today, decreased food production led to hunger and malnutrition of babies and adults in poverty, often exacerbated by the conflict that inhibits access to food.

In general, widespread famine was only expected to be avoided by boosting plant growth and output, minimizing environmental stresses on plants, and bringing down global population levels to sustainable levels.^3,4 In the middle of the 20^th century, farmers and scientists tried their best to boost plant growth and production by managing good practices, creating new fertilizers, pesticides, and plant varieties, using crop rotation and irrigation techniques, as well as applying plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) and helpful microbiomes. Numerous bacteria live in the soil, particularly in the plant rhizosphere, in close proximity to plants, and they employ a wide range of strategies and defense mechanisms to promote plant growth and shield plants from pathogens and all environmental stresses.

Increasing plant growth and output, lowering environmental impacts on plants, and bringing the global population down to a tolerable level were primarily projected to be the main ways to prevent widespread hunger.^3,4 Around the middle of the 20th century, farmers and scientists tried their best to boost plant growth and production by managing good practices, creating new fertilizers, pesticides, and plant varieties, using crop rotation and irrigation techniques, as well as applying plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) and helpful microbiomes. Numerous bacteria live in close proximity to plants in the soil, especially in the plant rhizosphere, and they employ a wide range of strategies and defense mechanisms to promote plant growth and shield it from pathogens and environmental stresses.

Different environmental stress that faces plants
Numerous studies have shown that abiotic stresses like drought, extreme soil salinity, and human activities, which reduce soil fertility and increase the extent of saline in agricultural soil, cause an increase in the salt composition of soils worldwide, which reduces plant growth, health, and production, are highly detrimental to plant growth and agricultural productivity.^5,6 Salts can enter the soil through natural processes or human actions like irrigation with unfit water. According to reports, one of the major abiotic elements is salt, which seriously impacts plant growth and food production, particularly in soil with high salinity levels that are often simple to detect using the electrical conductivity method. Saline soils are defined as those with electrical conductivity greater than four dS/m or higher, and sodium chloride is the most prevalent soluble salt in soils, followed by calcium and magnesium chlorides.⁷ Soil salinity detection techniques must be used to combat poor plant growth and increase productivity. According to estimates, salt and other stressors like acidity and alkalinity have an impact on plant growth. Salt accumulation is steadily increased by rain, wind, soil erosion, anthropogenic activity, and irrigation until it reaches a point where crop yield is significantly impacted. To promote plant development under saline circumstances, experts and agriculture authorities advise choosing suitable salt-tolerant crops and controlling soil salinity.⁸

Another strategy is the use of plant growth promoting bacterial to solve or decrease the salinity impacts and to improve the agricultural economy productivity through decreasing the induction of some materials like amino acids, Ethylene, or sugars, which are with antioxidant enzymes, the primary plant defense mechanisms to overcome salinity and increase the productivity of the plants under the saline conditions.^9,10

Evidence shows that utilizing poor irrigation techniques raised the saline level of the soil, which is thought to be one of the major causes of the destruction of the farmed regions and the accumulation of salt around the roots and inside plant cells. The effects of hypersalinity on most grown plants, including osmotic and ionic stress, are well documented.^9,11,12 There have been numerous attempts to use plant manipulation to overcome the inhibitory effects of salts on plant growth, such as the creation of salt-resistant plants through genetic transformation and selection of more salt-tolerant varieties, but testing those plants in the environment takes a lot of time and requires numerous lab efforts to be successful. ^13,14,15 The application of beneficial plant growth-promoting bacteria related to plants is another strategy. ^13,16,17 Additionally, the extraction of mineral resources results in the release of numerous heavy metals into the soil, causing soil pollution, which poses a serious issue for plants as they gradually expand. Increased levels of these heavy substances in the soil resulted in increased plant absorption, accumulation, and, ultimately, limited growth and plant toxicity. Furthermore, these heavy metals may enter a person’s body and result in various health issues. Fortunately, some microorganisms can tolerate and withstand toxic heavy metals, resist them, and have an excellent ability to remove heavy metals efficiently and affordably.¹⁸

Saline stress and ethylene synthesis in plants under stress
Osmotic and ionic stress, which affected the majority of critical physiological processes including photosynthesis, were the two main issues that plants encountered under high salinity.^12,19 While osmotic pressure causes dehydration and elongation and the growth of the cells and lateral buds is halted due to the accumulation of sodium poisonous in leaves and other plant tissue, ionic stress results in excessive sodium influx, which causes the outflow of potassium ions. Plants produce a lot of reactive oxygen species under stressful conditions like salinity, drought, flooding, or heavy metal contamination,^20,21,22 which causes nucleic acid damage like loss of nucleotide bases, mutation, DNA protein linkage, and DNA degradation.^{23, 24}

Moreover, it was noticed that under stress, plants produce Ethylene which has an essential role in the association relationship between plants and bacteria. The interactions of Rhizobium with legumes roots were inhibited, and root nodule formation was decreased, which led to a delay in the nitrogen fixation process.^16,25-27  Under saline stress conditions, symbiotic bacteria helped plants adapt, modulate their responses, and survive under stress due to the production of ACC deaminase, volatile metabolites, amino acids, antimicrobial agents, and polysaccharides.²³

Typically, Ethylene is identified as a gaseous hormone produced by all higher plants and some microorganisms. This is consistent with the observation reported by Hays et al.²⁸ who reported that Ethylene produced under special conditions,  transported freely through plant tissues by passive diffusion and at low concentrations, induced seed germination, root elongation, leaf formation, production of volatile compounds and initiation of flower and fruit stages.^29,30

The synthesis of ethylene in plants was documented from methionine and ATP, which form S-adenosyl-methionine (SAM) by the enzyme SAM synthetase. Then, SAM is then transformed to ACC using ACC synthase enzyme, and finally, the ACC produces Ethylene using ACC oxidase enzyme, as summarized in Figure.^{24,31, 32}

Impact of saline soils on the biodiversity of soil microbiota
Salinity stress is a significant factor affecting agriculture productivity, and emerging new varieties, tolerant to different biotic and abiotic stress factors via hybridization and genetic engineering is expensive process and time-consuming but plant growth-promoting microorganisms are more cost-effective and environmentally friendly to ease stress effects. Delivery of ACC-deaminase and plant growth regulators production via beneficial bacteria mainly affected Ethylene and abscisic acid-dependent signaling positively, facilitating plant growth and alleviating stressful conditions positively. It should be noted that microbial communities are found mainly in all types of soils, and their Biodiversity is high, and their numbers are high in the Rhizosphere, and the number of bacteria decreases as we move away from the root zone, which is rich in nutrients. Moreover, the bacterial counts and types were affected by both abiotic and biotic factors such as soil temperature, humidity, type, salinity, pH, composition, and fertility.⁶ These factors played more significant roles in transforming the soil microbiota, which forms varied interactions and relationships with plants and increases growth, development, production, and protection against fungal and bacterial pathogens. In addition, the soil microbiota played a significant role in minerals, agricultural and organic waste cycles, and soil fertility degradation. Therefore, soil salinity mainly affects soil microbiota diversity, abundance, and their potential to interact with plants, and it allows the survival of halo-tolerant bacterial and fungal strains in addition to mycorrhizae. Yaish et al.^33,34 evaluated the endophytic microbiota associated with Medicago truncatula plants, and they added that soil salinity affects 70 %  of endophytic microbiota detected using sequencing of 16S rDNA genes. They added that the isolated endophytic bacteria might pose plant growth-promoting strategies like ACC deaminase, ammonia and IAA production, Zn⁺² and PO₄^-3 solubilization, and secondary product secretion. Similar results were obtained for date palm seedlings, whereas salt stress differed the endophytic microbiota associated with the root system and significantly decreased the genera Rhizobium, Enterobacter, and Pseudomonas.^33,34,35

Plant growth-promoting bacteria
Genera Achromobacter, Bacillus, Brevibacterium,  Citrobacter, Enterobacter, Leclercia, Ochrobactrum, Parastrephia, and  Serratia were reported by many authors to improve plant growth.^11,36-41 Under salinity stress, some growth-promoting bacteria could program plants to overcome stress and grow well by producing ACC deaminase and IAA that significantly increase sugar, organic acids, amino acids, and proteins. Many future critical studies are needed to guide us on using plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) to manage plant growth in the field, wherever salinity is the primary constraint.

Under extreme conditions, many promising novel microorganisms within the genera Bacillus, Nocardia, and Streptomyces are present, and they are undoubtedly prominent producers of putative new bioactive agents with excellent plant-promoting activities. Soil bacteria are often described as chemical gold, considered excellent sources of new natural products, and a treasure for plants and humans. Over 500,000 living microbial species, divided into many different families, were isolated from the soil, and new isolates are still to be discovered. The soil surrounding the plant roots or root rhizosphere is a rich place with PGPB, which use soil nutrients and plant root exudate to grow, and their numbers increased in the rhizosphere area due to the presence of a high quantity of root exudate compared to soil far from the plant root area. Root area is a rich source of nutrients, and root exudates contain high amounts of vitamins, soluble carbohydrates, simple proteins, amino and organic acids, small molecules, and organic polymers. Root exudate reaches about a third of the fixed carbon by the plant. Thus, the region around the root becomes the richest with the microbes of the Rhizosphere. Each plant has its endophytes microbiome, which can be isolated from the root system, leaves parts (endosphere), flowers, or fruit tissues, but other microbe inhabits the leaf or stems surfaces (phyllosphere).⁴² The presence of large numbers of the microbiome is due to the presence of nutrients exuded by the roots of the plant.¹³ Typical soils contained  10⁷– 10⁸ cfu/g of bacteria, 10³-10⁴cfu/g of actinomycetes, and 10⁴– 10⁵  spore/g of fungi, and these numbers decreased in poor or stressed soils.⁴³ These microorganisms enhance soil fertility and plant growth and make plants more tolerant to salt stress, heavy metals, and toxic pollutants and pathogens.^44,45,46 The most active bacterial isolates belong to the genus Bacillus.^{37,38, 40}

According to studies by Siddikee et al.,¹¹ Upadhyay et al.,³⁹ Saeed et al.,⁴⁷ and others, numerous microbial species including Aeromonas, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Azotobacter, and Azospirillum have been discovered as plant growth-promoting bacteria. Also connected to the nodules on the roots of Medicago sativa were Bacillus megaterium and Enterobacter cloacae, while Pseudomonas monilia was identified from Solanum lycopersicum. All of these microorganisms promote growth. Numerous studies have demonstrated that whereas rhizosphere soil is rich in nutrients because of root exudates that allow significant bacteria to grow and prosper, non-agricultural soils, poor soil, and soil with harsh circumstances including salt, dryness, and absence of critical nutrients have low microbiota. Furthermore, compared to other plant growth-promoting bacteria, halophilic and halotolerant bacteria have distinct advantages in saline environments which enable them to grow and survive in saline environments. Thus many studies aimed for a safe, eco-friendly, and efficient strategy to significantly increase plant growth and production under stress conditions.

The most active bacterial genera that promote plant growth
Leclercia adecarboxylata MO1, which produces the halotolerant IAA, is extensively distributed in a variety of environmental sources and can support tomato growth and plant resistance to salinity stress. According to Tamura et al.⁴⁸, Kelemu et al.⁴⁹, Sun et al.⁵⁰, Verma et al.⁵¹, and Shahzad et al,⁵² the preceding isolate, known initially as Escherichia adecarboxylata, may be isolated from a variety of plant components, the rhizosphere, soil, and water. As a solute in osmatic alterations and excess cation balance during salinity stress, rhizosphere microorganisms can drive organic acid metabolism in plants when stressed. Increases in organic acids following the injection of helpful bacteria have been observed under osmotic pressure. These acids decrease nutrient deficiencies and stress tolerance because they can solubilize phosphorus from insoluble complexes to make it available for plants. Furthermore, the organic acids and exopolysaccharides produced by the soil microbiota operate as active components for bacterial quorum sensing during the development of a biofilm on the root surface and the colonization of the rhizosphere by bacteria. By eliminating biotic and abiotic stresses, these bacteria produce a high number of soluble amino acids that act as the building blocks for secondary metabolites that raise plant tolerance. It has been demonstrated that PGPB actively contributes to stress tolerance by increasing IAA production and promoting enhanced plant growth in inoculated plants.

The genus Bacillus is recognized as a sporulating bacterium that exhibits ubiquitous prevalence in virtually any habitat and under adverse conditions. In this regard, Bacillus species are able to withstand different environmental stresses through a variety of direct and indirect actions that support plant growth. These actions include lengthening roots and aerial structures through the production of enzymes, antibiotics, and plant growth regulators, as well as growth under various stress conditions due to the ability of the vegetative cells to sporulate.⁶ For many years, authors have claimed that the genus Bacillus is magical and that its species are ideal candidates for possessing a wide range of biological functions with advantageous processes and serve as important bio-inoculants, bio-stimulants, bio-fertilizers, or biocontrol agents. In the field and under salt stress conditions, to combat adverse conditions like salt, drought, and nutrient deficiency, Bacillus cells are successfully used as soil inoculums.¹³ Particular, saline-tolerant bacillus cells were isolated, purified, characterized, and identified from the soil, and these isolates showed an excellent broad capacity to promote the growth of diverse plant species, and their interactions with plants had unlimited benefits.^12,23,53-57 It is unknown whether environmental microorganisms increase their salinity tolerance or decrease soil salinity to support plant growth when conditions are salty.

The use of traditionally and genetically engineered microorganisms to increase plant growth
Using traditionally and genetically engineered plant growth-promoting microorganisms is an excellent method to improve plant growth under saline conditions.^58,59 According to a study, the use of beneficial microorganisms for plants grown under stress improved plant tolerance. These microorganisms included nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which have a close relationship with plant roots and produce hormones that will enhance nutrient uptake, secrete siderophore, solubilize phosphate, and prevent the growth of plant pathogens. Bacteria that produce IAA and ACC deaminase play crucial roles in plant growth as well as in defending plants from disease and environmental stress. Root exudates were transformed by rhizosphere bacteria into plant growth regulators like IAA, which promote plant growth and trigger the transcription and production of the enzyme ACC synthase. Environmental stress has been observed to cause ACC deaminase to produce ethylene from ACC.⁶⁰

Roles of soil microbiota and plant growth-promoting bacteria
In the removal of heavy metals, nutrient recycling, and degradation of agricultural wastes
Rhizosphere is rich with free-living saprophytic plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) that live in association with plant roots to enhance plant growth either directly or indirectly.^61,62 All significant bacterial isolates had a metabolic activity that made them resistant to different concentrations of heavy metals. Bacteria adapted to low levels of heavy metals and can resist high levels over time. Thus, they can be used in the bioremediation process of these environmental pollutants at the lowest costs and best effects. The bacterial genera Bacillus, Enterobacter, Nocardiopsis, and Pseudomonas are considered important genera resistant to heavy metals from contaminated environments and have high bioremediation potential. Bakran et al.⁶³ isolated two bacterial isolates, Streptomyces toxytricini and Streptomyces sp., with an excellent ability to remove lead (Pb⁺⁺) from polluted industrial wastewater. The highest biosorption rate (99%) was at pH eight and temperature 37°C. Jafarzade et al.⁶⁴ reported that Serratia sp. WPRA3 showed high tolerances to heavy metals like Ni, Co, Cr, Pb, and Zn and can be used to clean polluted soil. Similarly, Cimermanova et al.⁶⁵ identified nine isolates of the genus Streptomyces that can survive in toxic environments and were highly resistant to Pb, Zn, Cu, and Ni. Afzal et al.⁶⁶ reported that high concentrations of heavy metals are adsorbed on the bacterial cell walls, affect cell membranes, and form pores in them, and these effects differ with the metal type.

Bacteria use many techniques to protect themselves from unfavorable conditions like heavy metals and salinity. They had physiological systems with different safeguard protocols to protect themselves against contaminants, like the Efflux protocol, which exports toxic metal ions to the outside of the cell, and they are precise to a particular heavy metal ion, accumulation, and complex formation protocol leading to the formation of metallothioneins or cysteine-rich proteins which prevent the exposure of essential cellular components to the toxic metal. Reduction protocol which degrades the contaminant using enzymatic reduction to less toxic materials released outside the cells, and finally, alteration of cellular components protocol which decreases the cell sensitivity and adapts themselves to the presence of the toxic metal ions through mutations or genetic transformation^67-69 Some bacteria could accumulate the toxic metals on their cell walls (biosorption process, complex formation, degradation through reduction, oxidation, or precipitation) and inhibit their passage through the cell membrane.

In the environment, microorganisms play essential roles in recycling different nutrients, primarily carbon, nitrogen, and mineral, in addition to energy which moves among living and nonliving things. As a result of the complete nutrient recycling process, soil quality was enhanced, crop yield was increased, and the used quantity of chemical fertilizers was decreased. In addition, microorganisms enhanced plant growth using different protocols like secretion of secondary metabolites and bioactive agents, increased iron and soluble phosphate viability, and purified the soil from chemical hydrocarbons, phenol, heavy metals, and agricultural wastes by different biodegradation processes. Thus, they can be used for various industrial and biotechnological applications.

In the production of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase
The enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase is recorded in some microorganisms and act as plant growth-promoting enzyme which cleaves ACC, the immediate precursor of the plant hormone ethylene producing ammonia and a ketobutyric acid, which diminishes the bad properties of high levels of Ethylene.⁷⁰ Under biotic and abiotic stresses, Ethylene is produced by plants as a vital signaling product which negatively affects plant growth.⁷¹ Presence of some microorganisms may reduce the effects and lower the concentration of ethylene hormone in plants. Previous studies have demonstrated that inoculation of plants with ACC producing bacteria declined ethylene levels, resulting from decreasing resistance of plant growth under biotic and abiotic stresses.⁷² Some plant growth-promoting bacteria secrete a varied range of ACC deaminase which reached to approximately e ≥20nmol α-ketobutyrate mg^-1h^-1, allowing the bacterium to grow on ACC and act as a plant bio-fertilizer. It was reported that one bacterial isolates grew well on a medium supplemented with ACC, and this isolate had the highest level of ACC deaminase activity, ranging between 0.005 to 0.107 mmol. α-ketobutyrate mg^-1h^-1. Thus, it was reported as an excellent and effective bacterium for promoting plant growth, while some other isolates had low amounts of ACC deaminase. From the previous results, this isolate may be used to promote the development of plants, particularly under stressful conditions such as phytopathogens, and this activity could be utilized for enhancing plant growth through production-resistant plants.³⁶

Moreover, Bacillus species produce 1-amino cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid deaminase, which enables it to have synergistic stress tolerance activities with plants, such as the accumulation of trehalose, and this phenomenon is discussed and highlighted.⁴⁶ In some cases, stress conditions in Bacillus act as inducers to some plant growth regulators and protective agents against some plant diseases. Thus, finding such bacterial species in saline agroecosystems is not exceptional, given that ACC deaminase activity is one of the primary mechanisms to fulfill this beneficial function in the interacting of PGPB with plants. For example, Heydarian et al.⁷³ detected that plants that contained the bacterial acdS gene showed increased salinity tolerance due to the production of reactive oxygen species to avoid cellular injury. In addition, some critical bacteria associated with plant roots secreted ACC deaminase to improve salinity tolerance and decrease the induction of Ethylene and abscisic acid under stress conditions.

Under salt or other environmental stresses, plants produce an increased amount of ACC synthase and ACC oxidase, which leads to the formation of Ethylene from the direct precursor ACC but the presence of PGP bacteria that produce ACC deaminase enzyme act decreases and degradation of ACC to α-ketobutyrate and ammonia which lower plant inhibitory ethylene levels.^74,75 It was reported that the quantity of Ethylene was decreased by the presence of ACC deaminase-producing bacteria, which only reduced the quantity of Ethylene produced but did not prevent its synthesis completely. Thus, generally, PGP bacteria that contain ACC deaminase promote plant growth, reduce the damage due to stress, and help plants adapt and survive.

In this regard, the ACC deaminase from PGPB acts as an essential sink for ACC in the plant, lowers its level, and prevents its accumulation in large amounts, but the produced bacterial indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) facilitates plant growth and may enhance ACC synthase, and the synthesized amount of Ethylene may inhibit IAA production and plant growth and so no. However, a PGPB containing the ACC deaminase enzyme decreases feedback inhibition.^16,25,76

It is also consistent with the observation that Leclercia adecarboxylate is a plant growth-promoting bacteria because it produced significant amounts of ACC deaminase and IAA, which enhanced plant growth and improved its ability to tolerate salt stress. Meanwhile, many bacterial isolates have been reported to increase metal bioremediation by some plants due to the synthesis of both ACC deaminase and IAA.⁷⁵

At present, many rapidly unpredictable climatic changes and environmental stresses are due to the growing global population and their anthropogenic activities, which negatively affect plant growth and production in addition to food security which is needed to be maintained in a sustainable and eco-friendly way. Among the various and significant environmental stresses that threaten life on the earth is climate change which causes many substantial stress factors like salinity stress which badly influences more than 77 million hectares of agriculture production.

The microbiome of plants, which live in stressful conditions, frequently contains ACC deaminase. Timmusk et al.⁴³ conducted research on the significance of this enzyme and its value to plants. It is preferable to identify and describe rhizobacteria in microenvironments like the rhizosphere because they have important functions and produce the enzyme ACC deaminase, which aids in plant growth.^77-79 In vitro bacterial ACC-deaminase has been linked directly to root growth.^38,79 However, the relationship between bacteria and plants is intricate, and a bacterium’s impact can alter as its environmental conditions do.²⁹ The outcomes obtained by Glick et al.⁷⁴ demonstrate the significance of bacterial ACC deaminase in enhancing plant growth.

Finding ACC deaminase activity in PGPB and screening for the acids gene are two separate approaches. This activity has a wide distribution in many bacterial genera, according to searches for the acdS gene in the genomes of soil microorganisms and endophytic bacteria.^{80, 81} Additionally, the actinomycetes like Deinococcus, Proteobacteria, and Formicates bacterial groupings all showed the phylogeny of the acdS gene. Along with Lrp-like regulatory proteins called AcdR which control acdS gene expression in proteobacteria.⁸² The beneficial plant fungus Trichoderma asperellum, which similarly secretes ACC deaminase, is another class of non-bacterial microorganisms which benefit the plant and also secrete ACC deaminase, and has a role in phytopathogenic biocontrol and plant growth promotion.⁸³

The aforementioned instance is one of the scant number of studies^83,84,85 that have documented the activity of ACC deaminase. ACC deaminase has been found in a variety of rhizobia before.⁸⁶ According to reports,^{26, 27, 76} Arthrobacter protophormiae contains ACC deaminase and is linked to other advantageous microorganisms that promote rhizobium nodulation and mycorrhizal infection, resulting in the induction of salt stress tolerance in Pisum sativum plants. The enzyme was previously only known to exist in free-living bacteria, yeast, and fungi. Studying the bacteria, which work in symbiosis with legume plants to fix atmospheric nitrogen is important. Later, the presence of ACC deaminase has been reported not only in the genus Rhizobium but also in several genera of family Rhizobiaceaelike Sinorhizobium and Agrobacterium and family Phyllobacteriaceae like genera Phyllobacterium and Mesorhizobium in addition to Azospirillum.^{87, 88} Many genera of PGPB bacteria also exhibited ACC deaminase activities, like Aneurini bacillus, Pseudomonas, Ralstonia, Micrococcus, and Arthrobacter.

By creating mutant strains, isolating the target gene, and expressing it in heterologous hosts, one can examine the precise function of a gene. In the case of Pseudomonas sp. UW4’s acids gene, Shah et al.⁸⁹ work involved the isolation and expression of this gene in hosts like Escherichia coli DH5, Pseudomonas putida ATCC 17399, and P. fluorescens ATCC 17400, none of which naturally contain ACC deaminase, allowing the transformed strains to grow in minimal medium.

A similar approach was used by Brgido et al.⁹⁰ to express the acdS gene in two strains of Mesorhizobium cicero, one of which is salt sensitive and the other salt tolerant. Additionally, M. ciceri is a bacterium that coexists with chickpea roots and fixes nitrogen. According to their findings, Mesorhizobium cells underwent a considerable metamorphosis that improved the symbiotic relationship when compared to the wild type.

By producing ACC deaminase in mutants of the genus Pseudomonads that lack it, Ali et al.⁸⁴ were able to further demonstrate the beneficial role of the bacterial acdS gene during the interaction of plants with their essential bacteria under saline conditions. This improved tomato growth, increased fresh and dry biomass, and increased chlorophyll contents.

Plants would naturally create ACC under stressful growth conditions, which would impede growth and development. It is important to note that numerous manuscripts^{25, 35, 41,91}  have reported or suggested that the presence of ACC deaminase activity in PGPB is one of the key mechanisms that is involved in the bacterial promotion of plant growth. The list, as was previously stated, is enormous and keeps expanding as fresh original works are consistently released with new bulk soil, rhizospheric, and endophytic strains that promote plant development after the generation of ACC deaminase. ^70,92,93,94

Likewise, plants produce Ethylene under stress, which regulates plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses.^70,95,96,97 However, in response to biotic and abiotic stresses, the plant frequently significantly increases endogenous ethylene production, which has detrimental effects on plant growth and is thought to be the cause of senescence in plants.^70,84,98,99 Under ambient conditions, plants produce the necessary levels of ethylene, which confer beneficial effects on plant growth and development. It’s interesting to note that the PGPB also has the enzyme ACC deaminase,^84,73,100 which can convert the plant ethylene precursor ACC to ammonia and α-ketobutyrate, lowering the level of ethylene under different biotic and abiotic stresses,⁷³ like salt stress,^{38, 101,102} flooding stress,¹⁰³ drought stress,³⁸ heavy metal stress,^104,105 and pathogen attack.³⁶ As a result, bacteria that produce ACC deaminase lower the level of ACC in stressed plants, restrict the generation of ethylene, and so halt plant damage. Because plants are frequently subjected to conditions that produce the production of ethylene, it is advised that these bacteria be helpful for plant growth. The most active and widely dispersed bacteria in soil were luminous Pseudomonas isolates. They produced many enzymes and secondary metabolites, showed high catabolic flexibility, and had outstanding root colonization abilities. These earlier actions help plants withstand a variety of biotic and abiotic stressors. ^38,106,107 Additionally, using 16S rDNA sequence analysis, the most active bacterial isolate in ACC deaminase production was identified as Pseudomonas fluorescens REN1, and this isolate significantly increased root elongation and growth of rice seedlings compared to control seedlings. They attributed this increase to the production of indole-3-acetic acid and ACC deaminase more than siderophore production or phosphate solubilization.¹⁰⁸

Tiwari et al.³⁵ isolated thirty-seven bacterial isolates from twenty-five soil samples collected from India. All isolates contained ACC deaminase, which enabled them to use ACC in a culture medium as a nitrogen source. They added that Bacillus licheniformis and B. subtilis both had the highest levels of ACC breakdown (45.36% and 45.03%, respectively). Comparing the two isolates to other isolates under stress conditions improved plant growth, cell wall polymers and quantity of protein, phenolic contents, and chlorophyll. The two isolates also played key roles in producing IAA, siderophore and HCN, phosphate solubilization, removal salt, and polyethylene glycol stress. Elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) and model grass (Brachypodium distachyon) both grew better under salt and drought stress than control plants, and the composition of the plant cell walls returned to nearly normal following the application of helpful endophytic bacteria.^{109, 110} Additionally, the plants treated with rhizobacteria which produce ACC deaminase, preserve the composition of the plant’s cell wall under stress closer to typical plants.

Additionally, one of the main agricultural issues affecting crop output in the majority of the world’s arid and semiarid regions is drought stress. This type of abiotic stress impacts the interactions between plants and water at both the cellular and systemic levels, leading to both particular and generalized reactions and damage. Exopolysaccharide (EPS), which bacteria produce, protects microorganisms from water stress by improving water retention and controlling the diffusion of organic carbon sources.^111-114 This allows bacteria to survive under stressful conditions. Due to the participation of a network of fibrillar material that firmly bonds the bacteria to the root surface, EPS also aids microorganisms in irreversibly attaching and colonizing the roots.^115,116 Plants living in arid or semiarid locations may be more resilient to drought if native, advantageous bacteria are used to inoculate the plants with ACC deaminase. In order to best aid plants under drought stress, we thus made an effort to extract and characterize EPS and ACC deaminase from drought-tolerant Pseudomonas strains from cropped soils of various arid and semiarid natural settings.