New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology
- 1st Edition - February 20, 2018
- Latest edition
- Editors: Ram Prasad, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Narendra Tuteja
- Language: English
Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology explains how certain techniques can be used to manipulate plant growth and development, focusing on the cross-kingdom transfer… Read more
Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology explains how certain techniques can be used to manipulate plant growth and development, focusing on the cross-kingdom transfer of genes to incorporate novel phenotypes in plants, including the utilization of microbes at every step, from cloning and characterization, to the production of a genetically engineered plant. This book covers microbial biotechnology in sustainable agriculture, aiming to improve crop productivity under stress conditions. It includes sections on genes encoding avirulence factors of bacteria and fungi, viral coat proteins of plant viruses, chitinase from fungi, virulence factors from nematodes and mycoplasma, insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis, and herbicide tolerance enzymes from bacteria.
- Introduces the principles of microbial biotechnology and its application in crop improvement
- Lists various new developments in enhancing plant productivity and efficiency
- Explains the mechanisms of plant/microbial interactions and the beneficial use of these interactions in crop improvement
- Explores various bacteria classes and their beneficial effects in plant growth and efficiency
Students, scientists and researchers at universities, industries, and government agencies interested in microbial biotechnology, food producing, crop improvement and all disciplines related to microbial biotechnology
1. The Use of Microorganisms for Gene Transfer and Crop Improvement
2. Actinomycetes as potential plant growth promoting microbial communities
3. Microbial genes in crop improvement
4. Microbial transformations implicit with soil and crop productivity in rice system
5. Application of Microbial Biotechnology in Food Processing
6. Innate immunity engaged or disengaged in plant-microbe interactions
7. Novel Strategies for Engineering Resistance to Plant Viral Diseases
8. Molecular characterization of sugarcane viruses and their diagnostics
9. Cyanobacterial Biodiversity and Biotechnology: A Promising Approach for Crop Improvement
10. Pseudomonas flourescens - A Potential Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and biocontrol agent
11. Crop Improvement Through Microbial Technology: a Step Towards Sustainable Agriculture
12. Microbial technologies for sustainable crop production
13. Trichoderma, its multifarious utility in crop improvement
14. Microbe-mediated enhancement of nitrogen and phosphorus content for crop improvement
15. Microbiome in Crops: Diversity, distribution and potential role in crops improvements
16. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): Perspective in Agriculture under Biotic and Abiotic stress
17. Rhizosphere metabolite profiling: An opportunity to understand plant–microbe interactions for crop improvement
18. Phosphate-solubilizing Pseudomonads for improving crop plant nutrition and agricultural productivity
19. Targeted Genome editing for crop improvement in post genome sequencing era
20. Endophytic Microorganisms: Their Role in Plant Growth and Crop Improvement
21. Microbes in crop improvement: future challenges and perspective
22. Plant-microbe interaction and genome sequencing: an evolutionary insight
23. Crop breeding using CRISPR/Cas9
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: February 20, 2018
- Language: English
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Ram Prasad
Dr. Ram Prasad is an Associate Professor at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar, India. Dr. Prasad has served as an Assistant Professor Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Prasad has more than two hundred publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles, and book chapters; has edited or authored several books; and has five patents issued or pending. He’s on the editorial boards of a number of journals, and his research interests include plant-microbe interaction, agriculture sustainability, nanobiotechnology, and applied microbiology.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, IndiaSG
Sarvajeet Singh Gill
Sarvajeet Singh Gill is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. His research areas include agricultural plant biotechnology, biotic and abiotic stress biology, plant microbe interaction, and in-silico understanding of plant genomes. He has 12 years of research and 10 years of teaching experience. Dr. Gill has written over 50 book chapters and published over 100 peer reviewed publications in reputed SCI journals and edited around 30 books published by International publishers such Springer-Verlag, Wiley-Blackwell, CRC Press, and Elsevier, among others. He has carried out four R&D projects funded by prominent National funding agencies as Principal Investigator.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Lab, Centre for Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, IndiaNT
Narendra Tuteja
An elected fellow of numerous national and international academies, Dr. Narendra Tuteja is currently Professor and head at Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, NOIDA, India, and visiting Scientist at International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India. He has made significant contributions to crop improvement under adverse conditions, reporting the first helicase from plant and human cells and demonstrating new roles of Ku autoantigen, nucleolin and eIF4A as DNA helicases. Furthermore, he discovered novel functions of helicases, G-proteins, CBL-CIPK and LecRLK in plant stress tolerance, and PLC and MAP-kinase as effectors for Gα and Gβ G-proteins. Narendra Tuteja also reported several high salinity stress tolerant genes from plants and fungi and developed salt/drought tolerant plants.
Affiliations and expertise
Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Noida, India; Visiting Scientist at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, IndiaRead New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering on ScienceDirect