
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
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 1 9 3 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 9 2 0 - 2
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Request a sales quoteMicrobial 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
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- 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
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 31, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 280
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323851930
- eBook ISBN: 9780323859202
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