Biofertilizers for Sustainable Soil Management
- 292 pages
- English
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Biofertilizers for Sustainable Soil Management
About this book
The alkaline calcareous nature, high pH, salinity, heavy metals pollution, and low organic matter content of soils in many parts of the world have diminished the soil fertility and made essential nutrients unavailable to crops. To cope with the poor availability of soil nutrients, improve soil health, and feed the fast-growing global population, the farming community is using millions of tons of expensive chemical fertilizers in their fields to maintain an adequate level of nutrients for crop sustainability as well as to ensure food security. In this scenario, the exploitation of biofertilizers has become of paramount importance in the agricultural sector for their potential role in food safety and sustainable crop production. Bearing in mind the key importance of biofertilizers, this book examines the role of biofertilizers in sustainable management of soil and plant health under different conditions of the changing climate. Finally, it provides a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues, developments, and limitations in biofertilizers, crops, and beneficial microbes.
Salient Features:
- Mainly focuses on the role of biofertilizers in managing soils for improving crop and vegetable yields as a substitute for chemical fertilizers.
- Highlights the valuable information for the mechanism of action, factors affecting, and limitations of biofertilizers in the wider ecosystem.
- Presents a diversity of techniques used across plant science.
- Designed to cater to the needs of researchers, technologists, policy makers, and undergraduates and postgraduates studying in the fields of organic agriculture, soil microbiology, soil biology, soil fertility, and fertilizers.
- Addresses plant responses to biofertilizers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Editor Biographies
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Endophytic Microbes: Deciphering Their Role and Mechanism to Mitigate Abiotic Stresses in Plants as an Eco-friendly Tool
- 2 Legacy Phosphorus: Tracking Budget, Vulnerability, and Mobility to Ensure Sustainable Management in the Agricultural System
- 3 Bio-fertilizers for Improving Micronutrient Availability
- 4 Role of Plant Bio-stimulants and Their Classification
- 5 Approaches for Using Bio-fertilizers as a Substitute for Chemical Fertilizers to Improve Soil Health and Crop Yields in Pakistan
- 6 Phosphate-mobilizing Mycorrhizal-based Bio-fertilizers
- 7 Quality Standards for Production and Marketing of Biofertilizers
- 8 Limitations of Using Biofertilizers as an Alternative to Chemical Fertilizers
- 9 Phosphorus-solubilizing Bio-fertilizers
- 10 Potential Applications of Algae-based Bio-fertilizer
- 11 Ectomycorrhizal Fungi: Role as Bio-fertilizers in Forestry
- 12 Plant Growth-promoting Rhizobacteria/Pseudomonas as a Biofertilizer
- 13 Nitrogen-fixing Biofertilizers
- 14 Status of Research and Applications of Bio-fertilizers: Global Scenario
- 15 Bio-fertilizer Effects on Plant-parasitic Nematodes
- Index