
Microbiome Drivers of Ecosystem Function
- 1st Edition - October 18, 2023
- Latest edition
- Editors: Javid A. Parray, Nowsheen Shameem, Dilfuza Egamberdieva
- Language: English
Microbiome Drivers of Ecosystem Function, the latest release in the Microbiome Research in Plants and Soil series, focuses on advancements in microbial technologies towards harne… Read more

Microbial inoculants provide 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.
- 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
2. Halophyte associated endophytic microbes: potential use in crop production
3. Overview of functional metagenomic profiling of root associated bacteria bacteria under salt stress.
4. Microbial Consortium with multifunctional plant growth-promoting attributes: Future Perspective in Agriculture
5. Plant root Endophytes: transformers of plant disease
6. Use of microbial consortia of PGP bacteria for preventing nematode diseases in plants
7. The efficiency of heavy metals-tolerant Bacillus sp. for alleviating heavy metals toxicity on sorghum
8. Biofertilizers and their role in plant growth and minimizing environmental impacts
9. Bioengineering of rhizobiome towards sustainable agricultural production
10. Advancements in understanding plant microbe and microbe interaction
11. Role of microbes to enhance underground functioning in high altitude mountain areas
12. Technological advancements and study of Engineered Microbiome in sustainable crop production
13. Microbial consortium: utility and delimitation
14. Technological intervention in the rhizosphere of tomato plants: a case study
15. Phytomicrobiome in modulating plant - growth and stress resilience: An insight into functions and emerging perspectives in agriculture
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 18, 2023
- Language: English
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Javid A. Parray
Javid A. Parray holds a master’s degree in Environmental Science and completed his MPhil and PhD from the University of Kashmir, and qualified for the prestigious JKSLET exam. He also conducted post-doctoral research at Kashmir University and received a Fast Track Young Scientist Project by the Science and Engineering Research Board of the Government of India. He currently teaches at the Department of Environmental Science, GDC Eidgah Srinagar, affiliated with Cluster University Srinagar. His research interests include ecological and agricultural microbiology, climate change, microbial biotechnology, and environmental microbiomes. He is a prolific author and editor of numerous papers and books and serves on the editorial boards of several high-impact journals. A member of various scientific organizations, he received the “Emerging Scientist of the Year” Gold Medal in 2018. Currently, he is the national coordinator for a Swayam Moocs program on Environmental Science. Recently, he was appointed series editor for Microbiome Research in Plants and Soil by Elsevier and serves as the Executive Editor in Chief for the open-access journal Micro Environer.
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Nowsheen Shameem
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