1. Molecular dialogues through Trichoderma derived effector-like molecules 2. Microbial volatiles-mediated plant growth promotion 3. Microbial plant growth regulators and their role in plant health 4. Language of host plant- Frankia interactions 5. Plant beneficial microorganisms in drought/salinity stress 6. Biological repertoire of arbuscular mycorrhizal association 7. The molecular architecture of Rhizobium-plant symbiosis during nitrogen-fixation 8.

Cellular and molecular biology of Rhizobium-plant interaction 9. Transcriptional reprogramming of host plant by the biocontrol agents during biotic stress 10. Transcriptional plasticity during host colonization by endophytes 11. Nitrogen-fixing in nonlegume plants and genomics of nitrogen fixing rhizobium symbioses 12. Common genetic switches of plant symbiotic association with mycorrhiza, rhizobia, and Frankia 13. Role of root-associated fungal microbiota and its contribution to plant phosphorus nutrition 14. Elicitors of plant beneficial microbes and their role in plant innate immunity 15. Microbial secondary metabolites in plant health 16.

Rhizoctonia spp. as beneficial and mycorrhizal fungi 17. Role of oxylipins and strerols in inducing Trichoderma in inducing systemic responses 18. Metabolic and genomic traits of PGPR in salinity stress 19. Microbial volatiles in plant promote growth 20. Role of PGPR in induced metabolic and molecular reprogramming during stress 21. Role of halotolerant rhizobacteria in growth promotion and triggering induced systemic resistance in plants 22. Biology of vegetative cells and N2-fixing vesicles of Frankia sp.

23. Bacterial cyclodipeptides in triggers plant immunity 24. Adaptations of Rhizobium from rhizosphere to symbiosis 25. Role nodABC genes and exopolysaccharide of Rhizobium and their role in host determination 26. Role of microbial histone deacetylase modulates multiple responses.