Seed Endophytes Biology and Biotechnology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Verma, Satish Kumar (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), White, Jr, James Francis (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Microbiology.; Plant breeding.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Applied Microbiology.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

This book focuses on the importance and roles of seed microbiomes in sustainable agriculture by exploring the diversity of microbes vectored on and within seeds of both cultivated and non-cultivated plants. It provides essential insights into how seeds can be adapted to enhance microbiome vectoring,...

Table of Contents:

• Section A: Seed Endophytes: Introduction, and Methods for Assessment and Management
• 1. Seed-vectored microbes: Their roles in improving seedling fitness and competitor plant suppression
• 2. Thinking about PPFM bacteria as a model of seed endophytes: Who are they? Where did they come from? What are they doing for the plant? What can they do for us?
• 3. Seed endophytes and their potential applications
• 4. Exploring endophytic communities of plants: Methods for assessing diversity, effects on host development, and potential biotechnological applications
• 5. Understanding the indigenous seed microbiota to design bacterial seed treatments
• Section B: Seed Endophytes: Ecology, Transmission and Adaptations
• 6. The ecology of seed microbiota
• 7. Programming plants for climate resilience through symbiogenics
• 8. Agave seed endophytes: Ecology and impacts on root architecture, nutrient acquisition and cold stress tolerance
• 9. Chemical warfare in the plant microbiome leads to a balance of antagonisms and a healthy plant
• 10. Fungal and bacterial maize kernal interactions with the vertically transmitted endophytic state of Fusarium verticillioides
• Section C: Seed Endophytes: Biology and Functional Roles in Plant development
• 11. Functional roles of seed-inhabiting endophytes of rice
• 12. Mechanism of interaction of endophytic microbes with plants
• 13. Fitness attributes of bacterial and fungal seed endophytes of tall fescue
• 14. Role of the plant root microbiome in abiotic stress tolerance
• 15. Endophytic microbes: Prospects and their application in abiotic stress management and phytoremediation
• 16. Pine seeds carry symbionts: Endophyte transmission re-examined
• Section D: Seed Endophytes: Agricultural Applications and Biotechnology
• 17. Seed endophytes of Jasione Montana: Arsenic detoxification workers in an eco-friendly factory
• 18. Agricultural applications of endophytic microflora
• 19. Rhizome endophytes: Role and application in sustainable agriculture
• 20. Agriculturally important biosynthetic features of endophytic microorganisms
• 21. Microbial Endophytes of maize seeds and their application in crop improvements
• 22. Colonization of seeds by soilborne fungi: linking seed dormancy-defense syndromes, evolutionary constraints, and fungal traits
• 23. Seed Endophytes in Crop plants:Metagenomic approaches to study the functional roles and interactions. .