The present world population of 7 billion is expected to reach 10 billion by the middle of the 21st century due to the high growth rate, in developing countries. By 2050, there is a need to produce about 70% more food to feed world’s population. The major limiting factors of the agricultural sector that adversely affects the crop productivity worldwide are climate changes wherein abiotic and bioticstresses are serious conditions and also land-degradation, causing major problem for soil and crop productivity. About 20% of cultivable lands and more than 50% crop loss, worldwide are severely affected by both types of stresses. Among abiotic stresses drought and salinity stress is recognized asthe main threats to environmental resources, affecting almost 1 billion ha worldwide or globally representing about 7% of earth’s continental extent. Drought stress is common in many parts of the world, and more than 50 % of the globe is arid, semiarid. Soil water deficiency affects the water relations at whole plant level and finally makes plants more susceptible to other environmental stresses by decreasing the adequacy of defense mechanisms and can also adversely affects plant growth and yield, causing the most fatal economic losses in agriculture and forestry. Soil is a largest favorable ecological niche for the microbes and their metabolic activities.

Improvement of our understanding of soil-microbe and soil-plant-microbe interaction under a varietyof climate change is essential because several studies have been carried out on inoculation of benignmicrobes under normal conditions, but the overall impact of these interactions, specifically under varying adverse environmental conditions are often lacking. Microbial processes associated with biogeochemical cycles play an important role in global fluxes of key greenhouse gases like CO2, CH4 and N2O. These microbial processes are influenced greatly by climate change. These changes can be either positive (increased cell biomass and/or enhanced physiological functioning) or negative (decreased cell biomass/or reduced physiological functioning). Depending upon the response of the microorganisms, they either can help in maintaining the ecological balance and mitigating the effect of climate change or can aggravate the problem. Thus, it is necessary to study the changes caused dueto climate change on microbial processes associated with biogeochemical cycles.

This panel discussion will invite researchers to dissect the microbe based amelioration and their application to unravel the perplexity of climate change on sustenance of the ecosphere. In addition, understanding ofthe microbial physiology and optimal conditions for agricultural productivity will also be considered inthis panel discussion. This panel discussion will cover the detailed discussion in context of different types of functional microbes, their properties and recent emerging ideas for their application in agricultural fields as well as the effect on the already established microbiome. We highly believe that this panel discussion will be of high importance to unfold SDGs (e.g., 1, 2, 11, 13, & 15) with principles and practices of climate change on soil microbiome or vice versa and will foster the knowledge transfer among scientific communities, industries, and young researchers along with students and will enable a better understanding of the nature of microbial application procedure for sustainable ecosystem

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