Patterns, Function and Application of Seed Microbiome

Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses

Mohammad Yaseen Mir, Javid A. Parray, Saima Hamid, Munagala S. Reddy

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9780443247774
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Patterns, Function and Application of Seed Microbiome: Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses presents the current understanding of seed and microbiota associations, emphasizing recent findings that highlight the latest insights into these interactions, and how they may ultimately influence plant ecology, health and productivity in both natural and agricultural systems. The development and dispersal of seeds and their transition to seedlings are among the most critical stages of the life cycle of plants and seed health is of crucial global importance for producing both quantity and high quality crops to feed world's population. It is important for seeds to be produced that contain the best hybrid embryo so that it is free of diseases, includes beneficial endophytes and ensures a healthy start of a seedling. Focusing on the role of seed microbiota, their transmission and implications for producing healthier seeds as well as the relationship between the seed microbiome and primed plant resistance this book reveals the targeted use of the seed microbiome to enrich the soil biodiversity and its resilience and its resulting impact on plant health and yield. also explores the importance of nanotechnology in the development and production of crops for both improved plant production, and plant protection. It explores the different microbes that are vectored onto and within the seeds of both cultivated and non-cultivated plants, with an emphasis on the importance and roles of seed microbiomes in sustainable agriculture. It explains how to change seeds to increase microbiome vectoring; repairing damaged ones, and conserves seed microbiota. It also present seed microbiome roles for plant health and design effective microbiome engineering. - Explores seed microbiome transmission and implications for producing healthier seeds - Includes modelling and meta-analysis of seed microbiome - Presents insights into the assembly and structure framework of seed microbiomes - Includes metagenomics and the potential of seed endophytes - Considers the seed microbiome as bio-control agents

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• PATTERNS, FUNCTION AND APPLICATION OFSEED MICROBIOME
• PATTERNS, FUNCTION AND APPLICATION OF SEED MICROBIOME: BACTERIA, FUNGI AND VIRUSES
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 - Diversity and dynamics of seed microbiome
• 2 - Ecological role of seed microbiome
• 3 - Seed endophytes: plant and soil health
• 4 - Role of bacteria, fungi, and viruses in stress regulation
• 5 - Seed and microbiome interaction: Plant growth
• 6 - Seed pathology and the epidemiology of seed-borne diseases
• 7 - Seed microbiome genomics
• 8 - Seed microbiome engineering
• 9 - Plant and seed microbiota and their main drivers
• 10 - Nanotechnology of seed microbiome for improving crop productivity
• 11 - Modeling and analysis techniques: seed microbiome
• Index
• Back Cover