Microbes for Legume Improvement

✍ Scribed by Almas Zaidi, Mohammad Saghir Khan, Javed Musarrat (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 417
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents in-depth insights into strategies involving plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), including symbiotic/asymbiotic nitrogen fixers and associative/endophyte bacteria, phosphate-solubilizing microbes, as well as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their active biomolecules in legume production. It also examines the latest research findings on the taxonomic status of rhizobia and signal molecules affecting rhizobia-legume symbiosis to improve readers’ understanding of the cultivation of legumes in conventional and derelict soil. The agronomically important microflora broadly discussed have offered solutions to some of the problems associated with expensive fertilizers used in many production systems. This second edition provides an overview of metal toxicity to legumes and presents strategies for the abatement of metal toxicity to legumes.

Aimed at professionals, practitioners, researchers and graduate students in microbiology, crop sciences,

soil microbiology, biotechnology and environmental microbiology, the book focuses on the basic concepts and practical aspects of useful soil microbiota in legume production.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Current Status of the Taxonomy of Bacteria Able to Establish Nitrogen-Fixing Legume Symbiosis (Encarna Velázquez, Paula García-Fraile, Martha-Helena Ramírez-Bahena, Raúl Rivas, Eustoquio Martínez-Molina)....Pages 1-43
Recent Advances in the Active Biomolecules Involved in Rhizobia-Legume Symbiosis (Esther Menéndez, Pilar Martínez-Hidalgo, Luis R. Silva, Encarna Velázquez, Pedro F. Mateos, Alvaro Peix)....Pages 45-74
Flavonoids and Nod Factors: Importance in Legume-Microbe Interactions and Legume Improvement (Anna Skorupska, Dominika Kidaj, Jerzy Wielbo)....Pages 75-94
Role of Ethylene and Bacterial ACC-Deaminase in Nodulation of Legumes (Azeem Khalid, Zulfiqar Ahmad, Shahid Mahmood, Tariq Mahmood, Muhammad Imran)....Pages 95-118
Rhizobial Exopolysaccharides: A Novel Biopolymer for Legume-Rhizobia Symbiosis and Environmental Monitoring (Rabindranath Bhattacharyya, Sandip Das, Raktim Bhattacharya, Madhurima Chatterjee, Abhijit Dey)....Pages 119-133
Rhizobial Diversity for Tropical Pulses and Forage and Tree Legumes in Brazil (Mario Andrade Lira Junior, Giselle Gomes Monteiro Fracetto, Ademir Sérgio Ferreira Araújo, Felipe José Cury Fracetto, Rafaela Simão Abrahão Nóbrega, Krisle Silva et al.)....Pages 135-151
Potential of Rhizobia as Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (Luciano Kayser Vargas, Camila Gazolla Volpiano, Bruno Brito Lisboa, Adriana Giongo, Anelise Beneduzi, Luciane Maria Pereira Passaglia)....Pages 153-174
Role of Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria in Legume Improvement (Almas Zaidi, Mohammad Saghir Khan, Asfa Rizvi, Saima Saif, Bilal Ahmad, Mohd. Shahid)....Pages 175-197
Mycorrhizosphere Interactions to Improve a Sustainable Production of Legumes (José-Miguel Barea, Rosario Azcón, Concepción Azcón-Aguilar)....Pages 199-225
Legume Response to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculation in Sustainable Agriculture (Diriba Muleta)....Pages 227-260
Inoculation Effects of Associative Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria on the Performance of Legumes (Mohd. Saghir Khan, Almas Zaidi, Asfa Rizvi, Saima Saif)....Pages 261-276
Perspectives of Using Endophytic Microbes for Legume Improvement (Muhammad Naveed, Muhammad Zahir Aziz, Muhammad Yaseen)....Pages 277-299
Legume-Microbe Interactions Under Stressed Environments (Hamdi H. Zahran)....Pages 301-339
Rhizobial Amelioration of Drought Stress in Legumes (Muhammad Naveed, M. Baqir Hussain, Ijaz Mehboob, Zahir Ahmad Zahir)....Pages 341-365
Metal-Legume-Microbe Interactions: Toxicity and Remediation (Saima Saif, Almas Zaidi, Mohd. Saghir Khan, Asfa Rizvi)....Pages 367-385
Nonsymbiotic and Symbiotic Bacteria Efficiency for Legume Growth Under Different Stress Conditions (Metin Turan, Nurgül Kitir, Erdal Elkoca, Deniz Uras, Ceren Ünek, Emrah Nikerel et al.)....Pages 387-404
Back Matter ....Pages 405-412

✦ Subjects

Microbiology