For sustainable agriculture, conventional practices which involve heavy fertilizer input are undesirable owing to their long lasting impact on the soil quality. Alternatively to ensure increased productivity is, input of vermicompost along with bioinoculants as biofertilisers. In this endeavour, arbuscular mycorrhiza is well established as potential stimulator of plant secondary metabolism attracts considerable attentions and research efforts. Andrographis paniculata is an annual herb belonging to the family Acanthaceae that produces commercial metabolite andrographolide used in cancer...