Techniques to study Microbial phytohormones -- Azospirillum sp. as a challenge for agriculture -- Emergence of Methylobacterium spp. as potential organism in Agriecosystems -- Role of bacterial phytohormones in plant growth regulation and their development -- Soil bacteria and phytohormones for sustainable crop production -- The Importance of Phytohormones and Microbes as Biofertilizers -- Phytohormone producing PGPR for Sustainable Agriculture -- Indole-3-Acetic Acid  and 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Deaminase: Bacterial traits required in rhizosphere,rhizoplane and/or endophytic competence by beneficial bacteria -- Role of Abscisic acid producing PGPR in sustainable agriculture -- Microbial phytohormones have a key role in mitigating the salt-induced damages in plants -- Exploitation of phytohormone producing PGPR in development of multispecies bioinoculant formulation -- Significance of Biosurfactants as antibiofilm agents in eradicating phytopathogens -- Biofilm formation and biosurfactant activity in plant-associated bacteria -- Bioremediation  strategies employed by Pseudomonas species.