Soil Microorganisms for Plant Growth Promotion and Soil Health

Gustavo Santoyo

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443340567
• Subtopic: Botany
• Index: Biological Sciences

Soil Microorganisms for Plant Growth Promotion and Soil Health provides readers with an overview of plant growth-promoting microorganisms and their molecular mechanisms to improve plant growth and soil health. Students and researchers in soil science will gain a comprehensive understanding of soil microbiota diversity and functions, along with insights into the mechanisms by which plant growth, including molecular processes involved in nutrient acquisitions and defense mechanisms work. In addition, the book provides a noteworthy emphasis on fungi.A soil beneficial microbe cannot only be the living cells, but also their components, such as molecules or enzymes produced by this beneficial microbiota. Molecules like microbial phytohormones can be excellent promoters or regulators of plant growth, as well as proteins and other compounds like volatiles, which might elicit a systemic resistance response against pathogenic threats. Therefore, plant growth promoters living in soil, associated with plant roots, could act through direct beneficial interactions with the plant, by stimulating or regulating growth responses to environmental conditions, or indirectly by inhibiting the growth of potential microbial pathogens and herbivore pests. - Consolidates the latest advances on plant growth-promoting microorganisms residing in soil - Includes both direct e.g., phytohormones, plant nutrition, and indirect e.g., biocontrol mechanisms to promote plant growth - Covers the main mechanisms to promote plant growth: phytohormones and biocontrol - Includes detailed information about types of soil microrganisms, including bacteria, fungi, and other microscopic organisms and their specific functions and impact on soil health

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1 Soil microorganisms and their role in sustainable agriculture
• Chapter 2 Diversity of soil microorganisms and their impact on soil functions
• Chapter 3 Soil microorganisms for plant growth promotion and plant health
• Chapter 4 Azospirillum and its influence on efficient nutrient acquisition by plants: a model beyond phytohormones
• Chapter 5 Value-added coproducts from biofuel-based biorefinery enhance soil health by microbiome manipulation
• Chapter 6 The rhizosphere as a source of microbial endophytes: novel insights into plant beneficial interactions
• Chapter 7 Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for stimulating plant nutrition and soil health
• Chapter 8 Growth promoting bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi for plant and soil health
• Chapter 9 Utilizing microorganisms to enhance fertilization efficiency, productivity, and quality of agricultural products: a sustainable approach to agricultural development
• Chapter 10 Auxin and cytokinin in the regulation of plant growth by soil bacteria
• Chapter 11 Stimuli-responsive release of microbial metabolites loaded nanoformulations at rhizosphere microenvironment for enhanced plant health
• Chapter 12 Soil microbial enzyme activities as indicators of soil health
• Chapter 13 Plant growth-promoting bacteria for managing oomycete plant pathogens
• Chapter 14 Lysobacter: an emerging frontier in sustainable control of soilborne phytopathogenic microorganisms
• Chapter 15 Trichoderma in soil ecosystems: enzymes, secondary metabolites, and ecological adaptation
• Chapter 16 Plant growth promotion by bacterial cyclodipeptides: novel insights into TOR/S6K pathway activation
• Chapter 17 Volatiles produced by soil bacteria as biocontrol and plant growth agents
• Chapter 18 The relevant role of soil microorganisms in ameliorating abiotic stress in crop plants
• Chapter 19 The soil microbiome: a paradigm for arid land conservation
• Chapter 20 An eco-friendly drought mitigation through soil microorganisms and crop symbiosis in sustainable agriculture
• Chapter 21 Microbial interventions for improving wheat and maize production under low-nutrient soils
• Chapter 22 Unraveling plant–microbe interactions with multiomics: state of the art and opportunities for sustainable agriculture
• Chapter 23 Plant growth-promoting microbes as effective agents in promoting abiotic stress tolerance of crops
• Index