1. Exploring plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture: Fundamentals and recent advances 2. Microbial inoculants for soil quality and plant health 3. Microbes as combating strategies for alleviation of abiotic and biotic stresses 4. Molecular insights into stress responsive gene in mitigation of environmental stresses 5. Food security under changing scenario of climate change and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) 6. Issues and challenges in formulation and quality of biofertilizers for successful inoculation 7. Crop improvement through microbial biotechnology: An emerging insights 8. Microbial volatiles and their application in plant growth and health 9. Microbial cross talk: Below and above ground 10. Microbial nanotechnology: A new dimension to sustainable agriculture 11. Microbial diversity and root exudates as an important facets in rhizosphere ecosystem 12. Microbial ecology and soil enzymes 13. Role of nutrient solubilizing microbes in biofortification of crops 14. Plant growth promoting microorganisms: A bio-control agents of diseases 15. Microbes elicited bioactive molecules in plant defense 16. Multi-omics strategies in alleviation of abiotic stress 17. Advances in the application of microbial inoculants in phytoremediation of xenobiotic compounds 18. Microbiome saviour: Insights and viewpoints 19. Chemistry of plant microbe synergy in rhizosphere