Microbial Interventions in Agriculture and Environment: Volume 2: Rhizosphere, Microbiome and Agro-ecology

✍ Scribed by Dhananjaya Pratap Singh, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Ratna Prabha

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 579
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Microbial communities and their functions play a crucial role in the management of ecological, environmental and agricultural health on the Earth. Microorganisms are the key identified players for plant growth promotion, plant immunization, disease suppression, induced resistance and tolerance against stresses as the indicative parameters of improved crop productivity and sustainable soil health. Beneficial belowground microbial interactions with the rhizosphere help plants mitigate drought and salinity stresses and alleviate water stresses under the unfavorable environmental conditions in the native soils. Microorganisms that are inhabitants of such environmental conditions have potential solutions for them. There are potential microbial communities that can degrade xenobiotic compounds, pesticides and toxic industrial chemicals and help remediate even heavy metals, and thus they find enormous applications in environmental remediation. Microbes have developed intrinsic metabolic capabilities with specific metabolic networks while inhabiting under specific conditions for many generations and, so play a crucial role. The book Microbial Interventions in Agriculture and Environment is an effort to compile and present a great volume of authentic, high-quality, socially-viable, practical and implementable research and technological work on microbial implications. The whole content of the volume covers protocols, methodologies, applications, interactions, role and impact of research and development aspects on microbial interventions and technological outcomes in prospects of agricultural and environmental domain including crop production, plan-soil health management, food & nutrition, nutrient recycling, land reclamation, clean water systems and agro-waste management, biodegradation & bioremediation, biomass to bioenergy, sanitation and rural livelihood security. The covered topics and sub-topics of the microbial domain have high implications for the targeted and wide readership of researchers, students, faculty and scientists working on these areas along with the agri-activists, policymakers, environmentalists, advisors etc. in the Government, industries and non-government level for reference and knowledge generation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Microbial Inoculants for Sustainable Crop Management (Dhananjaya Pratap Singh, Ratna Prabha, Vijai Kumar Gupta)....Pages 1-35
Manufacturing and Quality Control of Inoculants from the Paradigm of Circular Agriculture (Inés E. García de Salamone, Rosalba Esquivel-Cote, Dulce Jazmín Hernández-Melchor, Alejandro Alarcón)....Pages 37-74
Microbial Biological Control of Diseases and Pests by PGPR and PGPF (Miguel O. P. Navarro, André Barazetti, Erika T. G. Niekawa, Mickely Liuti Dealis, Jean Marcos Soares Matos, Gabriel Liuti et al.)....Pages 75-122
PGPR Inoculation and Chemical Fertilization of Cereal Crops, How Do the Plants and Their Rhizosphere Microbial Communities’ Response? (Luciana P. Di Salvo, Inés E. García de Salamone)....Pages 123-148
Biological Treatment: A Response to the Accumulation of Biosolids (Stefan Shilev, Hassan Azaizeh, Desislava Angelova)....Pages 149-178
Microbial Bioconversion of Agricultural Wastes for Rural Sanitation and Soil Carbon Enrichment (Hassan Etesami, Arash Hemati, Hossein Ali Alikhani)....Pages 179-204
Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPRs): Functions and Benefits (Divya Singh, Paushali Ghosh, Jay Kumar, Ashok Kumar)....Pages 205-227
Functional Diversity of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria: Recent Progress and Future Prospects (Mohd. Musheer Altaf, Mohd Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Iqbal Ahmad)....Pages 229-253
Microbial Augmentation of Salt-Affected Soils: Emphasis on Haloalkalitolerant PGPR (M. Gavit Pavankumar, B. Chaudhari Ambalal, D. Shelar Rajendra, D. Dandi Navin)....Pages 255-302
Impact of Plant-Associated Microbial Communities on Host Plants Under Abiotic Stresses (Saumya Arora, Prabhat Nath Jha)....Pages 303-340
Alleviating Drought Stress of Crops Through PGPR: Mechanism and Application (Firoz Ahmad Ansari, Iqbal Ahmad)....Pages 341-358
Fertilizer Nitrogen as a Significant Driver of Rhizosphere Microbiome in Rice Paddies (Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan, Prasanta Kumar Prusty, Swati Sagar, M. M. Elakkya, Anjul Rana)....Pages 359-377
Environmental Remediation: Microbial and Nonmicrobial Prospects (J. Godheja, D. R. Modi, V. Kolla, A. M. Pereira, R. Bajpai, M. Mishra et al.)....Pages 379-409
Tree Ecosystem: Microbial Dynamics and Functionality (Samiksha Joshi, Manvika Sahgal, Salil K. Tewari, Bhavdish N. Johri)....Pages 411-450
Engineering Rhizobacterial Functions for the Improvement of Plant Growth and Disease Resistance (P. Jishma, A. Remakanthan, E. K. Radhakrishnan)....Pages 451-469
Impact Assessment of Microbial Formulations in Agricultural Soil (Rachana Jain, Jyoti Saxena)....Pages 471-495
Harnessing the Microbial Interactions in Rhizosphere and Microbiome for Sustainable Agriculture (Anushree Suresh, Jayanthi Abraham)....Pages 497-515
Plant-Microbiome Interaction and the Effects of Biotic and Abiotic Components in Agroecosystem (Indramani Kumar, Moumita Mondal, Raman Gurusamy, Sundarakrishnan Balakrishnan, Sakthivel Natarajan)....Pages 517-546
Plant-Microbe Communication: New Facets for Sustainable Agriculture (Purnima Bhandari, Neera Garg)....Pages 547-573

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences; Agriculture; Microbial Ecology; Sustainable Development; Applied Microbiology; Soil Science & Conservation