Microbes for Legume Improvement

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Khan, Mohammad Saghir (Editor), Musarrat, Javed (Editor), Zaidi, Almas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Applied ecology.; Plant ecology.; Microbiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Applied Ecology.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

Microbes for Legume Improvement comprises 21 chapters and provides comprehensive information on concepts of microbial technology for the improvement of legumes grown in different agro-ecosystems. The role of microbes including symbiotic nitrogen fixers, asymbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria (like Azos...

Table of Contents:

• Bacteria Involved in Nitrogen-Fixing Legume Symbiosis: Current Taxonomic Perspective
• Enhancing Rhizobium–Legume Symbiosis Using Signaling Factors
• Key Molecules Involved in Beneficial Infection Process in Rhizobia–Legume Symbiosis
• Recent Advances in Rhizobium–Legume Interactions: A Proteomic Approach
• Role of Ethylene and Bacterial ACC Deaminase in Nodulation of Legumes
• Microbial Biofilms: How Effective in Rhizobium–Legume Symbiosis?
• Potential of Rhizobia as Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria
• Engineering Nodulation Competitiveness of Rhizobial Bioinoculants in Soils
• Growth Promotion of Legumes by Inoculation of Rhizosphere Bacteria
• Mycorrhizosphere Interactions for Legume Improvement
• Role of Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria in Legume Improvement
• Legume Responses to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculation in Sustainable Agriculture
• Bacterial Biofilms: Role in Rhizobium–Legume Symbiosis
• Role of Metal Tolerant Microbes in Legume Improvement
• Legumes–Microbes Interactions Under Stressed Environments
• Role of Azospirillum in the Improvement of Legumes
• Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Nitrogen Fixation in Legumes
• Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Food Grain Legumes: Current Status
• Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Improving the Legume–Rhizobia Symbiosis
• The Potential Use of Rhizobium–Legume Symbiosis for Enhancing Plant Growth and Management of Plant Diseases
• Microbial Inoculants for Sustainable Legume Production.