Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture Volume I: Plant-soil-microbe nexus /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meena, Vijay Singh (Editor), Mishra, Pankaj Kumar (Editor), Bisht, Jaideep Kumar (Editor), Pattanayak, Arunava (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Molecular ecology.; Microbiology.; Plant physiology.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Plant Physiology.; Molecular Ecology.; Sustainable Development.

This book presents a compilation of case studies from different countries on achieving agricultural sustainability. The book stresses that, in order to meet the needs of our rapidly growing population, it is imperative to increase agricultural productivity. If global food production is to keep pace...

Table of Contents:

• Plant beneficial rhizospheric microbes (PBRMs): prospects for increasing productivity and sustaining the resilience of soil fertility
• Rhizosphere microorganisms towards soil sustainability and nutrient acquisition
• PGPR: Heart of Soil and their Role in Soil Fertility
• Strength of microbes in nutrient cycling: a key to soil health
• Quorum sensing in plant microbe interaction
• Horizontal gene transfer in soil and the rhizosphere: Impact on ecological fitness of bacteria
• Hairy root culture: a biotechnological approach to produce valuable metabolites
• Metagenomic approaches in understanding the mechanism and function of PGPRs-perspectives for sustainable agriculture
• Role of bioinoculants as plant growth-promoting microbes for sustainable agriculture
• Microbial Diversity of Tropical Andean Soils and Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture Development
• Entomopathogenic bacteria and biorationals in chickpea organic crop protection
• Bio-stimulants: an approach towards the sustainable vegetable production
• Efficacy of biological soil amendments and biocontrol agents for sustainable rice and maize production
• Bacterial-mediated selenium biofortification of Triticum aestivum: strategy for improvement in selenium phytoremediation and biofortification
• Role of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae in mobilization of soil phosphorus
• The role of soil microbes in crop biofortification.