Mitigation of Plant Abiotic Stress by Microorganisms

Applicability and Future Directions

1st Edition - April 30, 2022
Editors: Gustavo Santoyo, Ajay Kumar, Mohd Aamir, Utandhi Sivakumar
Language: English
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The microbial ecosystem provides an indigenous system for improving plant growth, health and stress resilience. Plant microbiota, including isolated microbial communities, have been studied to further understand the functional capacities, ecological structure and dynamics of the plant-microbe interaction. Due to climatic changes, there is an urgent need to bring microbial innovations into practice.

Mitigation of Plant Abiotic Stress by Microorganisms: Applicability and Future Directions is a comprehensive review of the different strategies available to improve the plant microbiome. Chapters include key topics such as: harnessing endophytic microbial diversity, microbial genes for improving abiotic stress tolerance, and microbial bioformulations. Putting these strategies into practice can have varying success in the field, so it is crucial that scientists are equipped with the knowledge of which microorganisms are needed, as well as the use and suitability of delivery approaches and formulations.

This title will be an essential read for researchers and students interested in plant microbial technologies and plant bio stimulants, plant pathology, biocontrol, agronomy, and environmental mediation.

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Table of Contents
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Contributors
Chapter 1: Abiotic stress and plant response: Adaptive mechanisms of plants against multiple stresses
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: High-temperature stress and its tolerance mechanisms
3: Drought stress and mechanism of tolerance
4: Cold stress and its tolerance
5: Salinity stress and its tolerance mechanism
6: Flooding stress and its tolerance mechanism in plants
7: Future perceptives
References
Chapter 2: Plant microbiome: Modulation of plant defense and ecological dynamics under stressed environment
Abstract
Acknowledgment
1: Introduction
2: Plant microbiome
3: Plant growth-promoting microbes and abiotic stresses
4: Plant growth-promoting microbes and biotic stress (pathogenic microbes such as pathogenic bacteria, fungi, viroids, insects, and nematodes)
5: Plant-microbiome interactions studied by metagenomics and metabolomics
6: Conclusion and future prospect
References
Chapter 3: The role of bacterial ACC deaminase and trehalose in increasing salt and drought tolerance in plants
Abstract
Acknowledgment
1: Introduction
2: Drought and salinity of soils
3: Effects of drought and salinity on plants
4: Plant growth-promoting bacteria
5: ACC deaminase
6: Trehalose
7: Synergy between ACC deaminase and trehalose
8: Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: Microbial management of crop abiotic stress: Current trends and prospects
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Effect of abiotic stresses on plants
3: Plant growth-promoting microorganism and their interaction with plants
4: Biochemical and molecular mechanisms of plant-microbe interactions
5: Interaction of genes and their cross talks
6: Phytoremediation using plant-microbe interactions
7: Conclusion and future prospects
References
Chapter 5: Microbial elicitors: Positive and negative modulators of plant defense
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Microbial elicitors
3: Types of microbial elicitors
4: Bacterial elicitors
5: Fungal elicitors
6: Elicitors from Oomycetes
7: Viral elicitors
8: Defense regulation of microbial elicitors
9: Role of microbial elicitors in plant defense elicitation
10: Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: Microbial behavior, responses toward salinity stress, mechanism of microbe-mediated remediation for sustainable crop production
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Soil salinization
3: Salinity status
4: Salinization and its impact
5: Remediation of salinization
6: Microbial reclamation of salt-affected soils
7: Microbial mechanism to salinity tolerance
8: Conclusions and future directions
References
Further reading
Chapter 7: Microbe-mediated alleviation of heat stress in plant: Current trends and applications
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Significant types of heat-related stresses in plants
3: Plant response to heat stress
4: Drought tolerance using microbes
5: Role of the rhizosphere microenvironment in microbe-mediated functions
6: Potential benefits and possible mechanisms of microbial interactions
7: A coping mechanism to heat stress at an ecosystem level
8: Current research trends for developing heat tolerance in plants
9: Drought mitigation using plant growth-promoting bacteria and AM fungi
10: Future perspective for research on developing heat tolerance in plants
11: Conclusions
References
Chapter 8: Harnessing endophytic microbial diversity for stress alleviation: Current perspectives for crop improvement
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Agricultural applications of endophytic microbes in crop improvement
3: How do plants respond to stressful environments? An overview
4: Endophytic microbial diversity from extremes of environment: Opportunities for plant stress alleviation
5: Endophytic microbes and their effects in different crop plants under stress
6: Conclusion and future perspectives
References
Chapter 9: Functional genomics tools for studying microbe-mediated stress tolerance in plants
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Types of abiotic and biotic stresses in plants
3: Functional genomics tools
4: RNA interference (RNAi) or RNA silencing
5: Application and limitations
6: Microbe mediated stress tolerance and functional genomics
7: Metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metaproteomics
8: Transcriptomics
9: Proteomics
10: Microbial genome annotation and cluster of orthologous groups (COGs)
11: Metabolomics
12: CRISPR/Cas9: A new paradigm in functional genomics
13: Conclusions
References
Chapter 10: Role of exopolysaccharide and biofilms in microorganisms for alleviating salt stress
Abstract
1: Salinity as abiotic stress
2: Microbial diversity of the saline environment
3: Methods of alleviation of salt stress
4: Biofilm
5: Biofilm formation
6: Role of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) in biofilm formation
7: Significance of communication in biofilm
8: Alleviation of the salt stress
9: Application studies of EPS-producing microorganisms
10: Conclusions
References
Chapter 11: Soil salinization and bioremediation using halophiles and halotolerant microorganisms
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Plant response to salt stress
3: Salt management strategies
4: Halophiles and halotolerant microorganisms
5: Mechanisms of plant growth promotion by halophilic and halotolerant microorganisms
6: Use of halophiles and halotolerant bacteria to remediate saline soil for sustainable agriculture
7: Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: Role of plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) in abiotic stress management
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Drought stress management by PGPR
3: Salt stress management by PGPR
4: Phytopathogens management under stress conditions by PGPR
5: Heavy metal stress management by PGPR
6: Heat stress management by PGPR
7: Cold stress management by PGPR
8: Conclusions
References
Chapter 13: An insight on developing nanoformulations suitable for delivering plant beneficial microorganisms to crops under abiotic stresses
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Developing Nanoformulation for PBMs
3: Excipients for nanoformulation
4: Nanoformulations for PBMs delivery
5: Release mechanisms of loaded microbes
6: Modes of delivery of PBMs-loaded nanoformulations
7: Biosafety of nanoformulations
8: Conclusions
References
Chapter 14: Salt tolerance in plants: Using OMICS to assess the impact of plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB)
Abstract
Acknowledgment
1: Salinity is a global problem in agriculture production
2: Effect of salinity on plants
3: Physiological and the molecular responses to salinity in plants
4: Mechanisms of salt tolerance in plants
5: Plant growth-promoting bacteria
6: OMICS enhanced understanding of stress tolerance mechanisms induced by PGPB in plants
7: Conclusions
References
Chapter 15: Abiotic stress-mediated transcription regulation, chromatin dynamics, and gene expression in plants: Arabidopsis as a role model
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Histone variants
3: Epigenetic modifications
4: DNA methylation
5: Histone modification
6: Histone-modifying enzymes
7: Histone acetylation/deacetylation
8: Histone methylation/demethylation
9: Other histone modifications
10: RNA-directed DNA methylation
11: miRNA
12: siRNA
13: Chromatin remodeling factors
14: Conclusions
References
Further reading
Chapter 16: Cytoskeleton in abiotic stress signaling
Abstract
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
2: Types of cytoskeleton in plants
3: Methods to visualize the cytoskeleton
4: Cytoskeleton under different types of abiotic stress
5: Conclusions
References
Chapter 17: Abscisic acid: a critical player in rhizobacteria-mediated root behavior and adaptation to environmental stress
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: An overview of the functions of abscisic acid in plants
3: Abscisic acid in rhizobacteria-mediated plant protection to abiotic stress
4: Root movements guided by abscisic acid and rhizobacteria
5: Bacterial-root cross talk: The language of amino lipids and abscisic acid
6: Root architecture alterations by rhizobacteria involve target of rapamycin signaling
7: Conclusions
References
Index

Gustavo Santoyo

Dr. Gustavo Santoyo obtained his Doctor of Science degree in Biomedical Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2005 and did postdoctoral studies during 2005-2007 at the Center for Cancer Research, NIH, USA, as well as a sabbatical year (2014-2015) at the Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is currently a full-time research professor at the Institute of Chemical and Biological Research of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, in Morelia, Mexico. His research interest is led towards plant-microbe interactions, biocontrol of fungal pathogens, development of bioinoculants for agricultural crops, and basic research on microbial diversity of extreme environments. In these research areas has published 80 scientific publications with more than 4000 citations and a h-factor 29. In the Academy, He has supervised more than 30 doctoral, master and undergrad thesis. Dr. Santoyo is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the National Research System (SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico.

Affiliations and expertise

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico

Ajay Kumar

Dr. Ajay Kumar is currently working as an assistant professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India. Dr. Kumar completed his tenure (2018-2022) as a visiting scientist from Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel and doctoral research from Department of Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India on the theme "Plant microbe interaction". In his research tenures, Dr. Kumar has published more than 235 scientific contributions in the form of research and review articles, books or book chapters with the leading International Journals or Publishers. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Microbial biocontrol, Postharvest management of fruits, Microbial endophytes related with the medicinal plants and cyanobacteria-pesticides interactions. Dr. Kumar actively engaged in editing book with the leading publisher like Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, Willey and edited more than 48 books and currently serving as an Associate editor in Frontier in Microbiology, BMC Microbiology and special guest editor in Microorganisms or Plants MDPI, Journal.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, India

Mohd Aamir

Dr. Mohd Aamir is currently working as research fellow at the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, India. Dr. Aamir completed his doctoral research from Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India in 2018. He has immense interest in molecular plant-microbe interaction, stress physiology and also has expertise in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. His research work is focused on molecular aspects of plant-pathogen interaction, and other innovative approaches to control plant diseases including (Bio-control aspects of microbes) and analyzing the molecular networks involved in plant disease signaling using the computation tools and techniques.

Affiliations and expertise

Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, India

Utandhi Sivakumar

Dr. Utandhi Sivakumar is Professor of Agricultural Microbiology in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), India. He received his basic, masters, and doctorate degrees from TNAU and gained Post-Doctoral experience at University of Florida, USA. He was Dean of School of Post Graduate Studies, TNAU.. He has previously been Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Florida, USA. He is now serving as Visiting Adjunct Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. With 25 years of teaching and research experience, he has about 107 research articles and obtained several recognitions in his academic and professional career, which include 9 awards, 3 fellowships and 4 patents (One –US and 2-Indian). He has authored more than 20 books and written 15 book chapters and is currently serving as a Chief Editor of 107 years old Madras Agricultural Journal. He has established international collaboration with Universities of Warwick, University of Wageningen, University of Florida, University of Tokyo, and Boreskow Institute of Catalysis, Russia.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Agricultural Microbiology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), India

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Gustavo Santoyo

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Utandhi Sivakumar