Microbial Management of Plant Stresses

Current Trends, Application and Challenges

Ajay Kumar, Samir Droby

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780323851930
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323859202
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Botany
• Index: Biological Sciences

Microbial Management of Plant Stresses: Current Trends, Application and Challenges explores plant microbiota including isolated microbial communities that have been used to study the functional capacities, ecological structure and dynamics of the plant-microbe interaction with focus on agricultural crops. Presenting multiple examples and evidence of the potential genetic flexibility of microbial systems to counteract the climate induced stresses associated with their host as a part of indigenous system, this book presents strategies and approaches for improvement of microbiome. As climate changes have altered the global carbon cycling and ecological dynamics, the regular and periodic occurrences of severe salinity, drought, and heat stresses across the different regimes of the agro-ecological zones have put additional constraints on agricultural ecosystem to produce efficient foods and other derived products for rapidly growing world population through low cost and sustainable technology. Furthermore chemical amendments, agricultural inputs and other innovative technologies although may have fast results with fruitful effects for enhancing crop productivity but also have other ecological drawbacks and environmental issues and offer limited use opportunities. Microbial formulations and/or microbial consortia deploying two or multiple partners have been frequently used for mitigation of various stresses, however, field success is often variable and improvement Smart, knowledge-driven selection of microorganisms is needed as well as the use of suitable delivery approaches and formulations. Microbial Management of Plant Stresses: Current Trends, Application and Challenges presents the functional potential of plant microbiota to address current challenges in crop production addressing this urgent need to bring microbial innovations into practice. - Demonstrates microbial ecosystems as an indigenous system for improving plant growth, health and stress resilience - Covers all the novel aspects of microbial regulatory mechanism. Key challenges associated with microbial delivery and successful establishment for plant growth promotion and stress avoidance - Explores plant microbiome and the modulation of plant defense and ecological dynamics under stressed environment

Table of contents

• Microbial Management of Plant Stresses
• Chapter 1 Facultative fungal endophytes and their potential for the development of sustainable agriculture
• Chapter 2 Physiological and molecular mechanisms in improving salinity stress tolerance by beneficial microorganisms in plants
• Chapter 3 The paradoxical role of sulfur bacteria on the thermodynamic maintenance of aquatic ecosystems
• Chapter 4 Bacterial alleviation of drought stress in plants: Potential mechanisms and challenges
• Chapter 5 A nano-agro formulation strategy: Combatting plant stresses via linking agri sustainability and environmental safety
• Chapter 6 The new green revolution and rhizobacterial volatile organic compounds: Recent progress and future prospects
• Chapter 7 Molecular mechanism and signaling pathways interplay between plant hormones during plant-microbe crosstalk
• Chapter 8 Omics and approaches in plant stress management
• Chapter 9 Root-endophytes and their contribution to plant abiotic stress tolerance
• Chapter 10 Deciphering fungal endophytes combating abiotic stresses in crop plants (cereals and vegetables)
• Chapter 11 Microbial volatile organic compounds: A cleaner and greener way of agro-stress management
• Chapter 12 Advances in sensing plant diseases by imaging and machine learning methods for precision crop protection
• Chapter 13 Microbial mitigation of drought stress: Potential mechanisms and challenges
• Chapter 14 Bioinformatics’ role in studying microbe- mediated biotic and abiotic stress tolerance
• Chapter 15 Rhizobium: Eco-friendly microbes for global food security
• Chapter 16 Impact of abiotic stress on the root growth and development
• Chapter 17 Microbial management of crop abiotic stresses: Current trends and prospects
• Index