New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Sustainable Agriculture: Microorganisms as Biostimulants - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323851630 ISBN 13: 9780323851633

Publisher: Elsevier, 2021

Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of different agriculturally important microorganisms and their role as plant biostimulants. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Trichoderma, Cyanobacteria, Endophytes, and Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria have the potential to promote plant growth, disease management, nutrient acquisition, stress alleviation, and soil health management. Presenting an all-inclusive collection of information, this book will be important for students, academicians, researchers working in the field of sustainable agriculture, microbial technology, and biochemical engineers. It will also be of use for policymakers in the area of food security and sustainable agriculture.

• Introduces new microorganisms as plant biostimulants.
• Describes potential mechanisms of plant–microbe interaction for stress alleviation and crop improvement.
• Provides information about different microbial formulations (consortium) and their application to the alleviation of different abiotic stresses (salt, drought, nutrient deficiency, heavy metal, etc.) in plants.
• Discusses about psychrophilic microbes, endophytic microbes, and total plant microbiome and their uses as biostimulants for improving plant health.

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About the Authors

Prof. H. B. Singh works as Distinguished Professor, Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, Mathura from August 1, 2020 to date. He is a Visiting Professor at Cornell University and University of Illinois, USA, Sau Paulo State University, Sorocaba, Brazil. He is honoured with 22 National and International prestigious awards including the CSIR Award for S&;T Innovation and Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences Successfully completed 21 research projects funded by various funding agencies. Established fruitful research collaborations with academic and industry researchers and published jointly with national and international collaborators in high impact journals and obtained 19 patents

Dr. Anukool Vaishnav is working as a Postdoctoral Scientist (Swiss excellence fellow) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is also associated with the Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, India, as an Assistant Professor. He has operated the SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship as Principal Investigator at the Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. As an active researcher, he has published more than 45 publications and 6 books. He has also received several fellowships and young scientist awards from different agencies.

From the Back Cover

Sustainable Agriculture: Microorganisms as Biostimulants provides a comprehensive overview of different agriculturally important microorganisms and their role as plant biostimulants. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Trichoderma, Cyanobacteria, Endophytes, PGPR etc. have potential to promote plant growth, disease management, nutrient acquisition, stress alleviation and soil health management. With the given content and layout book is an all-inclusive collection of information, of use to students, academicians, researchers working in the field of sustainable agriculture, microbial technology, biochemical engineers and also for policy makers in the area of food security and sustainable agriculture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323851630
• ISBN 13: 9780323851633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390
• Editor: Singh Harikesh Bahadur, Vaishnav Anukool