Povyshenie produktivnosti i adaptatsii rasteniy k neblagopriyatnym agroklimaticheskim usloviyam i antropogennym vozdeystviyam yavlyayutsya aktual"nymi problemami dlya sel"skogo khozyaystva i okhrany okruzhayushchey sredy. Rasteniya zhivut v simbioze s assotsiativnymi bakteriyami, kotorye uluchshayut rost i pitanie rasteniy za schet fiksatsii atmosfernogo azota, regulyatsii gormonal"nogo statusa, transformatsii pitatel"nykh i toksichnykh veshchestv v rizosfere, i drugikh mekhanizmov. Poetomu dlya resheniya etikh problem perspektivnym predstavlyaetsya ispol"zovanie simbioticheskogo potentsiala rasteniy i poleznykh mikroorganizmov. Kniga posvyashchena izucheniyu roli bioticheskikh (obrazovanie mikrobnykh assotsiatsiy, aborigennaya mikroflora) i abioticheskikh (zasukha, ekstremal"nye temperatury, vysokaya kislotnost" pochvy, toksichnost" tyazhelykh metallov, defitsit pitatel"nykh elementov) faktorov v rastitel"no-bakterial"nykh vzaimodeystviyakh, a takzhe roli assotsiativnykh bakteriy v adaptatsii rasteniy k stressam i otsenki vozmozhnostey ikh primeneniya v kachestve biopreparatov v neblagopriyatnykh agroklimaticheskikh usloviyakh. Kniga predstavlyaet interes dlya mikrobiologov, fiziologov rasteniy, rastenievodov, pochvovedov, agronomov, agrokhimikov i ekologov.