Microbial Management of Plant Stresses

Current Trends, Application and Challenges

1st Edition - July 31, 2021
Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
Editors: Ajay Kumar, Samir Droby
Language: English
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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.

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Title page
Table of Contents
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Contributors
Chapter 1: Facultative fungal endophytes and their potential for the development of sustainable agriculture
Abstract
1.1: Introduction
1.2: Endophytic fungi
1.3: Potential use of facultative endophytic fungi
1.4: Potential commercial development of facultative endophytic fungi
Chapter 2: Physiological and molecular mechanisms in improving salinity stress tolerance by beneficial microorganisms in plants
Abstract
2.1: Introduction
2.2: Beneficial microorganisms in salinity stress
2.3: Mechanisms of salinity tolerance in beneficial microorganisms
2.4: Future perspectives and conclusion
Chapter 3: The paradoxical role of sulfur bacteria on the thermodynamic maintenance of aquatic ecosystems
Abstract
Acknowledgments
3.1: Introduction
3.2: Sulfur bacteria
3.3: Photosynthetic anoxygenic bacteria
3.4: Dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacteria
3.5: Bioenergetic processes involved
3.6: Remarks on water column metabolism and the role of bacteria
Chapter 4: Bacterial alleviation of drought stress in plants: Potential mechanisms and challenges
Abstract
4.1: Introduction
4.2: PGPR mechanisms enhancing drought stress tolerance in plants
4.3: Conclusions
Chapter 5: A nano-agro formulation strategy: Combatting plant stresses via linking agri sustainability and environmental safety
Abstract
5.1: Introduction
5.2: Conclusion
Chapter 6: The new green revolution and rhizobacterial volatile organic compounds: Recent progress and future prospects
Abstract
6.1: Introduction
6.2: Rhizobacterial volatiles: Activity and form
6.3: Plant fitness management through rhizobacterial volatiles
6.4: Rhizobacterial volatiles and their direct and indirect repercussions on plant growth and development
6.5: Challenges associated with the application of rhizobacterial volatiles
6.6: Conclusion and future prospects
Chapter 7: Molecular mechanism and signaling pathways interplay between plant hormones during plant-microbe crosstalk
Abstract
7.1: Introduction
7.2: Functions of plant hormones
7.3: Plant-microbe interactions
7.4: Phytohormone-synthesizing microbes
7.5: Microbial Phytohormones and their role in plants
7.6: Hormone signaling in microbe-host interactions
7.7: Concluding remarks and future perspectives
Chapter 8: Omics and approaches in plant stress management
Abstract
8.1: Introduction
8.2: Bioinformatics tools and their applications
8.3: Genome-sequencing-based approaches
8.4: Bioinformatics role in crop improvement
8.5: Bioinformatics resources for plant stress
8.6: Functional genomics and bioinformatics approach to elucidate abiotic stress tolerance mechanism
Chapter 9: Root-endophytes and their contribution to plant abiotic stress tolerance
Abstract
Acknowledgments
9.1: Introduction
9.2: Diversity of root-endophytes in agriculturally important crops
9.3: Plant-endophyte interactions under abiotic stress
9.4: Root endophyte-mediated plant-growth promotion and abiotic stress tolerance
9.5: Recent trends and advancements in root-endophyte application in agricultural systems
9.6: Scope of root-endophytes in climate-smart agriculture and sustainability of modern agricultural ecosystems
9.7: Future prospectus
Chapter 10: Deciphering fungal endophytes combating abiotic stresses in crop plants (cereals and vegetables)
Abstract
10.1: Introduction
10.2: Fungal symbiotic relationship: A knot for better living
10.3: Fungal symbionts: “A synergistic collaborator”
10.4: Fungal endophytes and their types
10.5: Fungal endophyte colonization into plant (host-endophyte synchrony)
10.6: Abiotic stress
10.7: Conclusion and future prospects
Chapter 11: Microbial volatile organic compounds: A cleaner and greener way of agro-stress management
Abstract
11.1: Introduction
11.2: mVOCs—A green tool for abiotic stress in agriculture
11.3: mVOCs in biotic stress management
11.4: mVOCs: Mode of action
11.5: Conclusion
Chapter 12: Advances in sensing plant diseases by imaging and machine learning methods for precision crop protection
Abstract
12.1: Introduction
12.2: Conventional method for disease diagnosis
12.3: Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging for plant diseases detection
12.4: Hyperspectral imaging
12.5: Thermal imaging
12.6: Image processing for plant disease detection
12.7: Machine learning methods for plant disease detection
12.8: Conclusion
Chapter 13: Microbial mitigation of drought stress: Potential mechanisms and challenges
Abstract
13.1: Introduction
13.2: Drought stress and its implications on plant growth and development
13.3: Plant microbiome: An interface between plant health and drought stress
13.4: Microbe-induced systemic tolerance (MIST) against drought stress
13.5: Omics-driven approaches in plant drought stress tolerance—A new paradigm to study the plant-microbe interactions
13.6: Major confronts in microbe-mediated drought tolerance
13.7: Conclusion and future perspectives
Chapter 14: Bioinformatics’ role in studying microbe-?mediated biotic and abiotic stress tolerance
Abstract
Acknowledgments
14.1: Introduction
14.2: How biotic and abiotic stress affect plant response
14.3: Physiological and molecular responses against plant response
14.4: Microbe-mediated biotic and abiotic stress tolerance
14.5: Importance of bioinformatics approaches in the study of microbe-mediated biotic and abiotic stress
14.6: Multi-omics approaches to determine alleviation in biotic and abiotic stress
14.7: Bioinformatics tools used for analysis
14.8: Conclusion and prospects for future studies
Chapter 15: Rhizobium: Eco-friendly microbes for global food security
Abstract
15.1: Introduction
15.2: Climate change and sustainable agriculture
15.3: Host-rhizobia interactions
15.4: Biochemical and molecular mechanism of biological nitrogen fixation
15.5: Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPR)
15.6: Effectiveness of rhizobia during abiotic stress
15.7: Rhizobium as biocontrol agent
15.8: Conclusion and future projections
Chapter 16: Impact of abiotic stress on the root growth and development
Abstract
Acknowledgments
16.1: Introduction
16.2: Role of phytohormones in root growth and development
16.3: Effects of light quality and quantity on root growth
16.4: Cold and heat stress alters the root morphology
16.5: Root growth affected by lack and excess of water
16.6: Reactive oxygen species influencing root growth and development
16.7: Other abiotic factors involved in modulating root architecture
16.8: Root phenotyping tools and techniques under stressful environment
Chapter 17: Microbial management of crop abiotic stresses: Current trends and prospects
Abstract
17.1: Introduction
17.2: Plants as holobiont: Coevolution of plant and associated microbiota
17.3: Microbial inoculants in abiotic stress alleviation: An overview
17.4: Deciphering microbial community compositions and core microbiomes of plants
17.5: Conclusion and future research need
Index

Ajay Kumar

Dr. Ajay Kumar is currently working as an assistant professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India. Dr. Kumar recently completed his tenure as a visiting scientist from Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel. He has published more than 175 research, review articles, and book chapters in international and national journals. He serves as an associate editor for Frontiers in Microbiology and as guest editor for various journals such as Plants, Microorganisms, and Sustainability. Dr. Kumar has also edited more than 32 books with the leading publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. Dr. Kumar has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of plant-microbe Interactions, microbial biocontrol, Postharvest management of fruits, microbial endophytes related to medicinal plants and cyanobacteria-pesticides interactions.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Samir Droby

Prof. Samir Droby is a senior research scientist at the ARO, the Volcani Center and Professor of Plant Pathology and postharvest Sciences at the Division of Biochemistry and Food Science at the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2013, he has been serving as the chair of the Postharvest Pathology Subject Matter Committee of the International Society of Plant Pathology. His research expertise include developing biological and natural based control strategies for postharvest diseases, microbiome of harvested commodities, mode of action of yeast biocontrol agents, pathogenicity mechanisms of Penicillium species on citrus and apple fruit and resistance mechanisms of fruits against postharvest pathogens. Prof. Droby has published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 25 review articles and 27 book chapters on various topics related to postharvest pathology.

Affiliations and expertise

Senior Research Scientist, ARO, Volcani Center and Professor of Plant Pathology and postharvest Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Food Science, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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