Microbiome Drivers of Ecosystem Function

Javid A. Parray, Nowsheen Shameem, Dilfuza Egamberdieva

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780443191213
• eBook ISBN: 9780443223983
• Topic: Biowissenschaften
• Subtopic: Botanik

Microbiome Drivers of Ecosystem Function focuses on the advancements in microbial technologies towards harnessing the microbiome for improved crop productivity and health that are at the frontier of agricultural sciences. It provides insights into the diversity of endophytic microbiomes and their potential utility in agricultural production.Increased crop yield through chemical interventions have limit thresholds and alternative, natural and/or integrated approaches are increasingly needed. Microbial inoculants among the ways in which food production efficiency can be improved. Plant growth-promoting soil organisms increase net crop uptake of soil nutrients, resulting in larger crops and higher yields of harvested food. These and other symbiotic associations between plants and microbes can ultimately be exploited for the increased food production necessary to feed the world, in addition to creating safer farming techniques that minimize ecological disruption.As a volume in the Microbiome Research in Plants and Soil series, Microbiome Drivers of Ecosystem Function serves as an ideal reference for researchers and students in the fields of agricultural biotechnology, biochemistry, environmental science, plant biology, agricultural sciences, and agricultural engineering. - Provides insights on engineered microbes in sustainable agriculture, recent biotechnological developments, and future prospects - Introduces microbes as chief ecological engineers in reinstating equilibrium in degraded ecosystems - Presents the current state and development, as well as future challenges in studying plant-microbe interactions - Discusses endophytic microbiomes and other microbial consortium with multifunctional plant growth-promoting attributes

Table of contents

• Microbiome Drivers of Ecosystem Function
• Chapter 1 Concept and dynamics of earth microbiome
• Chapter 2 Soil microbial diversity and functions
• Chapter 3 Phytomicrobiome in modulating plant growth and stress resilience: an insight into the functions and emerging perspectives in agriculture
• Chapter 4 Exploring plant microbiome: a holistic approach to sustainable agriculture
• Chapter 5 Plant–microbe interactions: perspectives in promoting plant health
• Chapter 6 Technological intervention in rhizosphere of tomato plants: a case study
• Chapter 7 Microbial consortium as promising biostimulants for plant health: a future perspective for agriculture
• Chapter 8 Symbiotic associations between microbes and host plants
• Chapter 9 Microbial rhizoremediation as a strategy for decontaminating polluted sites and augmenting plant growth
• Chapter 10 Indigenous symbiotic soil microbes and native tree species for revegetation of nickel postmining area in Indonesia
• Chapter 11 Seeing beyond the surface: soil microbes govern soil ecosystem functions and affect global climate
• Chapter 12 The study from gene to ecosystems for soil microbial diversity in benefit to plant
• Chapter 13 Below tropical coastal land ecosystems: composition and functional diversity of microbial community across mangroves and paddy field
• Chapter 14 Amelioration of biotic stress by using rhizobacteria: Sustainable Crop Production
• Chapter 15 Crop microbiome dynamics in stress management and green agriculture
• Chapter 16 Diversity of various symbiotic associations between microbes and host plants
• Chapter 17 Metaomics approaches to unravel the functioning of multispecies microbial communities
• Chapter 18 An insight into functional metagenomics profiling of different ecosystems
• Chapter 19 Microbial ACC-deaminase properties, functions and perspectives in climate stressed agriculture
• Index