For the first time a bacterium capable of solubilising insoluble silica in soil is introduced to the farming community. Use of silicate solubiliser improves silica nutrition of plants and renders them tolerant to lodging and attack by insect/pest and diseases. BioSoul-SL solibiliser is a liquid biofertilizer made of pure cultures of naturally occuring silicate 9 solubilising bacterium with a CFU 1 x 10 /ml and can be used for all crops. Through secretion of specific organic acids it solublises insoluble silica present in the soil. Dosage : 1 ltr. per acre in adequate quantity of water or applied along with well decomposed organic manure or through the drip irrigation system.