The Chemical Dialogue Between Plants and Beneficial Microorganisms

1st Edition - July 27, 2023
Imprint: Academic Press
Editors: Vivek Sharma, Richa Salwan, Ewa Moliszewska, David Ruano-Rosa, Malgorzata Jedryczka
Language: English
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The Chemical Dialogue Between Plants and Beneficial Microorganisms provides foundational insights on plant beneficial microorganisms and their impact on the health and productivity of plants. Providing in-depth and recent updates about unexplored aspects of plant microbes interactions, the book includes the biological repertoire of arbuscular mycorrhizal association, molecular architecture of Rhizobium-plant symbiosis, and endophytes in transcriptional plasticity during host colonization by endophytes. The book also includes details about the mechanism of different plant beneficial microorganisms, how these differ, and their cross signaling. This book will be an important reference for researchers working on different plant beneficial microorganisms and their molecular arsenal.

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Title page
Table of Contents
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Contributors
Chapter 1. Trichoderma-derived elicitor-like molecules and their role in plant immunity
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Basic of plant immunity
1.3. Elicitors and their role in plant immunity
1.4. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Microbial volatiles-mediated plant growth promotion and stress management in plants
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Microbial volatiles
2.3. Volatiles in the rhizosphere
2.4. Factors influencing volatiles production in rhizosphere
2.5. Conclusions
Chapter 3. Bacterial cyclodipeptides in triggers plant immunity potential
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Cyclodipeptide structure
3.3. Cyclodipeptide synthesis
3.4. Cyclodipeptide biosynthesis
3.5. The role of tailoring enzymes in biological activity
3.6. Various biological activities of cyclodipeptides
3.7. Conclusions
Abbreviations
Chapter 4. Plant–microbe interaction in alleviating drought stress
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Effects of drought stress on plants
4.3. Plant adaptation to drought stress
4.4. The role of plant growth–promoting microbes in drought stress
4.5. Role of endophytes in drought stress
4.6. Tolerance mechanism by endophytes
4.7. Plant growth–promoting rhizobacteria in drought stress
4.8. Role of AMF in drought stress
4.9. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Molecular genetics of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
5.1. Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
5.2. Processes and stages of AM symbiosis
5.3. Signaling processes that initiate, maintain, and terminate AM symbiosis
5.4. Modulation of symbiosis signaling
5.5. D14L signaling pathway
5.6. The evolution of symbiosis signaling control
5.7. Concluding remarks
Chapter 6. The chemical dialogue between plants and beneficial arbuscular fungi in disease resistance
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Mechanisms of mycorrhiza-induced resistance
6.3. The biochemistry of MIR
6.4. Mycorrhizal plants modify communication with the surrounding organisms through volatile organic compounds
6.5. Mycorrhiza-induced resistance against pathogens
6.6. Mycorrhiza-induced resistance in multiway interactions
6.7. Conclusions
Chapter 7. Signaling in mycorrhizal symbioses
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Mycorrhiza and theories of its association
7.3. Classification of mycorrhiza
7.4. Role of phytohormones and protein–protein interaction in mycorrhizal association
7.5. Environmental factors and fungal adaptations promoting mycorrhizal associations
7.6. Hallmarks in mycorrhizal interactions
7.7. Role of mycorrhiza in ecosystem and in agricultural productivity
7.8. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Signaling in arbuscular mycorrhizal association
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Signaling process in mycorrhizal associations
8.3. Transcription factors and their downstream regulatory elements
8.4. Symbiotic initiation and signaling molecules in early interaction
8.5. AM symbiotic signaling pathway
8.6. Fungal colonization on the root surface, formation of periarbuscular architecture, and role of nuclear calcium (Ca2+) spiking
8.7. Genomics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and of “arbuscule” formation
8.8. Conclusions
Chapter 9. The molecular architecture of rhizobium–plant symbiosis in nitrogen fixation
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Plant–microbial symbiosis
9.3. Overview of leguminous plants and rhizobium interaction
9.4. Early signaling in legume–rhizobia association
9.5. Conclusions
Chapter 10. Nitrogen fixation in nonlegume plants and genomics of nitrogen-fixing nonrhizobium symbioses
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Nonlegume crops
10.3. Nonrhizobium nitrogen fixation
10.4. Conclusion
Chapter 11. The genus Trichoderma as biocontrol agent of plant pathogens
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Antagonistic activity of Trichoderma species
11.3. Interaction of Trichoderma strains with plants
11.4. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Insight of plant–endophytes interactions
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Overview of endophytes
12.3. Interaction of endophytes with host plant
12.4. Molecular basis of host colonization and manipulation of host immune response by endophytes
12.5. “OMICS” insights of endophytes and host plant interactions
12.6. Biochemical insight of endophytic association
12.7. Transcriptomics, proteomics, and metagenomics insight of entophytic association
12.8. Beneficial mechanisms with host plant
12.9. Conclusion and future perspectives
Chapter 13. The role of Trichoderma fungi in inducing defense mechanisms in plants
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Localized and systemic acquired resistance versus induced systemic resistance
13.3. Trichoderma in plant immunity
13.4. Role of oxylipins in inducing systemic responses
13.5. Possibilities and limitations of using Trichoderma fungi in practice
13.6. Conclusions
Chapter 14. Histone acetyltransferases and histone deacetylases of trichoderma: their role in plant microbe interactions
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Histone acetyl transferases and histone deacetylases
14.3. HDACs in fungi
14.4. Histone deacetylase inhibitors and plant pathogens
14.5. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Microbial secondary metabolites in plant health
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Secondary metabolites
15.3. Coculture as an elicitor for secondary metabolites production
15.4. Application of secondary metabolites in agriculture
15.5. New technologies applied to improve our knowledge of secondary metabolites
15.6. Future perspectives and conclusions
Chapter 16. Rhizoctonia spp.: as beneficial and mycorrhizal fungi
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Rhizoctonia genus versus Rhizoctonia-like fungi and binucleate Rhizoctonia
16.3. Beneficial effects of endophytic fungi colonization on plants
16.4. Beneficial effects of Rhizoctonia solani colonization on plants
16.5. Beneficial effects of BNR colonization on plants
16.6. Beneficial effects of BNR colonization on orchid plants
16.7. BNR as control agents against Rhizoctonia solani
16.8. Conclusions
Chapter 17. Microbial volatile compounds in plant health
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Regulation of secondary metabolites production in microbes and their biosynthetic pathways
17.3. Microbial secondary metabolites and their role in plant growth
17.4. Tools for detecting and studying secondary metabolites
17.5. Enhancement of secondary metabolite production in rhizobacteria
17.6. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Metabolic and genomic traits of PGPR in salinity stress
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Soil salinity and its impact in plants
18.3. Plant growth–promoting rhizobacteria
18.4. Regulation of salinity stress
18.5. Extracellular molecules
18.6. Conclusion and future perspectives
Chapter 19. Insights into the mechanisms of plant growth promotion by halotolerant rhizobacteria in saline-stressed plants
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Effect of salinity on plants
19.3. Halotolerant rhizobacteria in plant growth promotion
19.4. Bioavailability of nutrients N, P, and K by means of nitrogen fixation, phosphate solubilization, and potassium solubilization
19.5. Siderophore production
19.6. Production of IAA
19.7. Biocontrol activities—lytic enzyme activity, antifungal activity, and HCN production
19.8. Other mechanisms to survive salt stress
19.9. Production of ACC deaminase
19.10. Exopolysaccharides
19.11. Antioxidant activity
19.12. Induction of systemic resistance
19.13. Production of volatile organic compounds
19.14. Application of halotolerant bacteria for plant growth improvement in saline soils
19.15. Conclusion
Chapter 20. Biology of nitrogen fixation in Frankia
20.1. Introduction
20.2. General characteristics and classifications of Frankia
20.3. Isolation and cultivation of Frankia
20.4. Biological and biochemical aspects of Frankia
20.5. Genomic attributes of Frankia
20.6. General pathways of nitrogen assimilation
20.7. Frankia signaling pathway
20.8. Applications of Frankia in agriculture
20.9. Conclusions
Chapter 21. Role of root-associated fungal microbiota and its contribution to plant phosphorus nutrition
21.1. Introduction
21.2. Phosphorus
21.3. Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi
21.4. Endophytic fungi
21.5. Plant growth promotion
21.6. Mechanism of phosphate solubilization
21.7. Factors affecting phosphorus solubilization
21.8. Mode of application of phosphorus solubilizing microorganism
21.9. Inoculation effect of phosphorus solubilizing fungi
21.10. Why does phosphate-solubilizing fungal inoculation fail?
21.11. Development of phosphate-solubilizing fungal inoculants and biofertilizers
21.12. Conclusion
Chapter 22. Role of phytohormones in modulating plant microbe interaction
22.1. Introduction
22.2. Phytohormones and their role in plant–microbe interactions
22.3. Conclusions
Chapter 23. Plant beneficial microbes and their role in planthealth
23.1. Introduction
23.2. Interaction between plant, PGPR/PGPF, and invading pathogen
23.3. Mechanism of interaction between plant and PGPR/PGPF
23.4. Conclusions and future prospects
Index

Vivek Sharma

Dr. Vivek Sharma is currently an Assistant Professor at the University Centre for Research and Development at Chandigarh University, Mohali (PB). He has more than 12 years of research experience exploring molecular attributes of Trichoderma. His research also involves examining the molecular aspects of microbes beneficial to plants such as Streptomyces, and Bacillus. He has published several research papers in international journals, serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE, the review editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, an Associate Editor of Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, and is a member of the editorial board of Current Proteomics. He is also a recognized reviewer for journals such as the Journal of Advanced Research, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Environmental Research, the Journal of Proteomics, BMC Genomics, BMC Plant Biology, AMB Express, Molecular Biotechnology, MDPI Pathogens, Folia Microbiology, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology and Archives of Microbiology.

Affiliations and expertise

University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali (PB.), India

Richa Salwan

Dr. Salwan is currently an Assistant Professor (Microbiology) at the College of Horticulture and Forestry (Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry), Neri, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Salwan’s research interests and contributions are on the diversity of psychrotrophic bacteria from the Western Himalayas and their utilization for industrial applications. She has also worked on the exploration of extremophiles for industrially relevant enzymes and plant beneficial microbes for agricultural benefits. She has published two books and numerous research papers in several international journals. Dr. Salwan serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and is also a recognized reviewer for several journals including MDPI Genes, MDPI Diversity, MDPI Foods, BMC Microbiology, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, and Microbial Ecology.

Affiliations and expertise

College of Horticulture and Forestry (Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry), Neri, Hamirpur (HP), India

Ewa Moliszewska

Dr Moliszewska is a plant pathologist primarily works on soil fungi, plant pathogens, plant diseases, biological and biotechnological methods used in the control of phytopathogens, mutual relations between communities of soil microorganisms, plant extracts as biopreparations, herbal plants and the use of herbs, Rhizoctonia solani, Aphanomyces cochlioides, Cercospora beticola, molecular beetroot diseases and biochemical methods of fungi differentiation, the course of the disease process in plants. Currently working as associate professor at Opole university Poland, she has published over 40 research articles.

Affiliations and expertise

Institute of Environmental Engneering and Biotechnology, University of Opole, Opole, Poland

David Ruano-Rosa

David Ruano Rosa is a researcher at the Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León, ITACyL where he earned a postdoctoral contract in the program DOC-INIA. His research focus is in the implementation of biological (by using biological control agents alone or in combination) and integrated control (combining biological control agents and chemical products) of plant pathogens principally in woody plants such as avocado or olive. He has participated in national and international conferences and acts as reviewer in several research journals including Plant Disease, Microbial Ecology, FEMS Microbiology, Phytopathology, PLOS one, Crop Protection, European Journal of Plant Pathology and Frontiers in Microbiology in which he is review editor for plant microbe interaction.

Affiliations and expertise

Researcher, Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y Leon, ITACyL

Malgorzata Jedryczka

Dr. Jedryczka is head and full professor of the Dept of Pathogen Genetics and Plant Resistance, Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences where she was the Founder and first Head of the International Doctoral Study Program. She has received multiple international awards in recognition of her work and her over 200 scientific contributions have been published in reputed international journals. She developed the System for Forecasting Disease Epidemics (SPEC) which has been implemented at the country level, thanks to a collaboration with DuPont (currently: Corteva). It is the largest in Europe and the third largest decision support system for plant protection in the world, based on aerobiological and molecular methods. In cooperation with the companies Bayer, Dalgety and Syngenta, she modified and popularized the petal test for predicting the infection of oilseed rape by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (stem rot)

Affiliations and expertise

Professor Department of Pathogen Genetics and Plant Resistance, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

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