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Advanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

  • 1st Edition - May 18, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Saurabh Gangola, Saurabh Kumar, Samiksha Joshi, Pankaj Bhatt
  • Language: English

Advanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment focuses on plant-microbe interactions in respect to bioremediation and plant growth promotion, provid… Read more

Description

Advanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment focuses on plant-microbe interactions in respect to bioremediation and plant growth promotion, providing insights on diverse approaches such as genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and other high-throughput analyses of environmentally relevant microorganisms. The impact of frequent applications of potentially toxic chemicals (pesticides and fertilizers) and increased industrialization processes on microbial diversity emphasizes the potential threat to microbial biodiversity in ecosystems. This is an ideal resource on current trends and the future of PGPR developments with bioremediation potential.

Moreover, it gives a deep understanding of the genetics of microbial biodegradation and different remediation mechanisms that help to re-establish the natural environment.

Key features

  • Helps readers find sustainable ways for environmental clean-up and increased agricultural productivity
  • Gives a systematic overview of the role of PGPR in bioremediation, selection and preparation of potential PGPR microbial inoculum for bioremediation, biodegradation and plant growth promotion
  • Illustrates the importance of PGPR in the bioremediation of potentially hazardous and relatively novel compounds with the maintenance of sustainable agricultural productivity
  • Addresses emerging novel approaches of PGPR-based biodegradation of toxic compounds and highlights key developments and challenges associated with the processes

Readership

Scientists in academia, research laboratories, and industry, Environmental microbiologists, agricultural microbiologists, bioremediation experts, and various other related areas; students, teachers, and researchers, both in universities and research institutes, especially working in areas of microbiology, environmental science, soil science, plant pathology

Table of contents

1. Microbial diversity and its application for plant growth promotion and bioremediation

2. Plant microbe interactions: signalling and perception

3. Role of plant growth promoting bacteria in sustainable agriculture

4. Rhizosphere metagenomics: applications in plant microbes’ interactions

5. Recent molecular and omics approaches to study rhizosphere functioning

6. Rhizosphere engineering for sustainable agriculture

7. Cultivation of unculturable microorganism: latest advancement and applications

8. Microbial enzymes and their mechanisms for plant growth promotion

9. Microbial inoculants and their impact on plant and soil health

10. PGPR mediated mitigation of biotic and abiotic stress in plants

11. Microbes as a biofertilizer and biopesticides for sustainable agriculture

12. Role of psychrophilic or psychrotolerant microorganism towards the development of hill agriculture

13. Genetic engineering in plant growth promontory microorganisms: opportunities and obstacles.

14. Tracking of microbial inoculants in agriculture soil

15. Fungal and bacterial diversity towards xenobiotic compound degradation

16. PGPR mediated bioremediation of toxic pollutants for sustainable environment and human health

17. Mitigation of soil heavy metal contamination through PGPR

18. Role of PGPR in arsenic bioremediation in agriculture crops

19. Microbial exopolysaccharide (EPS): its application in degradation of environmental pollutants

20. Technological advancement in tool and techniques used for biodegradation analysis

21. Mechanisms of microbial based biodegradation of environmental pollutants

22. Microbial nanotechnology for the development of sustainable agriculture and environment

23. Role of nanoparticles in soil heavy metal bioremediation

24. Insight into microbial metabolic pathways for degradation of different xenobiotic compounds

25. Role of microorganism in agricultural waste management

26. New insights into the enzymatic catalysis for the degradation of toxic chemicals

27. Future of PGPR based plant growth promotion and bioremediation technologies

28. The role of hidden microbes for sustainable agriculture and environment

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 22, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

SG

Saurabh Gangola

Saurabh Gangola is currently an Assistant Professor at Graphic Era Deemed to be University in the Department of Microbiology, Dehradun, India. He has completed his MSc and PhD in Microbiology from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in Pantnaga, India. His area of specialization is bioremediation and biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds (including pesticides, hydrocarbons, and azo dye), degradation kinetics, microbial stress-responsive enzymes, bioinformatics, molecular biology, plant-microbe interaction, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, culturable and unculturable microorganisms, and metagenomics. He has published several research papers, review papers in highly reputed journals, book chapters, edited books (Springer and Elsevier) and also published patents. He has edited special issues as a guest editor in Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Microbiology. He has been a valued editorial board member of several national and international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Department of Microbiology, Dehradun, India

SK

Saurabh Kumar

Saurabh Kumar works in Agricultural Microbiology at ICAR- Research Complex for Eastern Region in Patna, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Agricultural Microbiology, ICAR- Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna, India

SJ

Samiksha Joshi

Samiksha Joshi is currently an Assistant Professor, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Himalayan School of Biosciences, Department of Biosciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. She has completed her MSc and PhD in Microbiology from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnaga, India. Her area of expertise is microbiology, molecular biology, plant-microbe interaction, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, metagenomics, biodegradation, and bioremediation. She has published 8 research and review articles in reputed international journals and has authored 8 book chapters.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Himalayan School of Biosciences, Department of Biosciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

PB

Pankaj Bhatt

Dr. Pankaj Bhatt completed his PhD. in microbiology from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. His research focused on the molecular and microbiological basis of bioremediation. Dr Bhatt has published several articles in high impact factor leading journals including Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Chemosphere, Environmental research, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, and 3-Biotech. He has also published several book chapters on microbial biotechnology. Presently he is working as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou China.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Dolphin (P.G) College of Biomedical and Natural Sciences Dehradun, India

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