New Insights, Trends, and Challenges in the Development and Applications of Microbial Inoculants in Agriculture
- 1st Edition - January 24, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Sergio de los Santos Villalobos
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 8 5 5 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 8 5 4 - 1
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Request a sales quoteNew Insights, Trends and Challenges in the Development and Applications of Microbial Inoculants in Agriculture provides information about how to develop high-quality microbial inoculants (biofertilizers and biopesticides) for increasing crop yields and quality and reducing the economic, environmental and health costs of food production. The book's chapters discuss cutting-edge approaches and techniques to develop bioformulations as reliable, viable solutions for food production, including the importance of a legal framework to guarantee the quality and safety of these bio-products. Additionally, it provides information on the current limitations and future approaches to enhance microbial inoculant development for contributing to global food security.
Interest in biofertilizers and the potential for their use in sustainable agriculture is increasing. However, many commercial bioproducts are low quality due to the lack of quality standards which causes a decrease in efficiency, high variability in the field, and loss of confidence from farmers.
- Presents new updates that are based on new research and approaches in the production of microbial inoculants
- Focuses on the needs of readers, covering key steps and points that should not be overlooked
- Links scientific and practical knowledge so readers can apply the knowledge acquired in their research on the development of biofertilizers and biopesticides
- Helps companies can their inoculant production processes
- Provides updates on how the criteria and selection of bioproducts based on PGPM can increase efficiency of crops through correct application and evaluation of plant performance
Researchers, students, and industry personnel in applied biotechnology, soil microbiology, soil and agricultural sustainability, agronomy, and microbiology. industry personnel and consultants on the use and production of microbial inoculants
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part I. Microbial ecology in food security
- Chapter 2. Microbial interactions in agroecosystems
- Chapter 3. Plant–pathogen interactions: Mechanisms involved in plant diseases
- 3.1. Lifestyles of plant pathogens
- 3.2. Gene-for-gene in plant–pathogen interactions
- 3.3. Toxin production
- 3.4. Plant's defense triggered by pathogens: Hypersensitive response and systemic acquired resistance
- 3.5. Disease-resistant plants
- Chapter 4. Biological control agents for mitigating plant diseases
- 4.1. Antibiosis
- 4.2. Production of lytic enzymes
- 4.3. Competition for space and nutrients
- 4.4. Production of siderophores
- 4.5. Hyperparasitism
- 4.6. Inducing resistance and priming of the plant
- 4.7. Mixed mechanisms of biological control
- 4.8. Combined use of multiple BCA
- Chapter 5. Plant growth-promoting bacteria as a sustainable agricultural strategy
- 5.1. Direct mechanisms
- 5.2. Indirect mechanisms
- 5.3. Mechanisms with dual effect
- Part II. Development of next-generation bacterial inoculants
- Chapter 6. Bioprospection of beneficial bacteria for bioproducts innovation in agriculture
- Chapter 7. Molecular and biochemical responses of plants to bacterial inoculants
- 7.1. Plant's defense triggered by beneficial microorganisms: systemic-induced resistance
- Chapter 8. Omics approaches for detecting action modes of microbial inoculants
- 8.1. Approaches for studying in situ plant growth promotion traits
- Chapter 9. Polyphasic taxonomy of strains in bacterial inoculants
- Chapter 10. Microbial inoculants production systems
- Chapter 11. Bioformulation of bacterial inoculants
- 11.1. Liquid inoculants
- 11.2. Solid inoculants
- 11.3. Encapsulated cells
- Chapter 12. Performance evaluation of bacterial inoculants in the field
- 12.1. Microbial inoculant characteristics
- 12.2. Target plant
- 12.3. Management practices
- 12.4. Soil and environmental conditions
- Part III. Present and future scenario
- Chapter 13. The role of microbial culture collections in the development of microbial inoculants
- 13.1. Establishment of culture collections
- 13.2. Global perspective of culture collections
- 13.3. Services offered by microbial culture collections
- 13.4. Microbial genetic resources for agriculture
- 13.5. The role of microbial culture collections in the development of microbial inoculants
- Chapter 14. Legal framework for the development of microbial inoculants
- Chapter 15. Perspectives and challenges for innovating microbial inoculants
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 24, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 216
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443188558
- eBook ISBN: 9780443188541
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Sergio de los Santos Villalobos
Sergio de los Santos Villalobos is a Research Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Mexico. He is also the Founder and Director of the Laboratorio de Biotecnología del Recurso Microbiano and the Colección de Microorganismos Edáficos y Endófitos Nativos. He has authored more than 100 scientific and review articles in indexed journals, 4 books, and 20 book chapters. He also has two registered patents in biotechnology on the bioprospecting and bioformulation of microbial inoculants and one software patent on the employ of isotopic techniques for assessing soil erosion. Dr. de los Santos Villalobos has served as president of international scientific congresses, participated in the organization and teaching of national or international workshops, has been a plenary speaker for national or international congresses or symposia, and is also a member of the expert panel of global organizations focused on the development of microbial inoculants and soil conservation. He is currently Associate Editor in several high-impact indexed journals.
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Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora- Sonora, MexicoRead New Insights, Trends, and Challenges in the Development and Applications of Microbial Inoculants in Agriculture on ScienceDirect