Agriculturally important microbes for sustainable agriculture. Volume 2, Applications in crop production and protection /

This book is a compilation of case studies from different countries and covers contemporary with future prospective for sustainable development of agriculture. The book highlights the real-world as well as future generation situations facing the challenges for the twenty first century will be produc...

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Other Authors Meena, Vijay Singh (Editor), Mishra, Pankaj Kumar (Editor), Bisht, Jaideep Kumar (Editor), Pattanayak, Arunava (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer, 2017.
Subjects
Agricultural microbiology.
Sustainable agriculture.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811053436
9789811053429
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • Contributors; About the Editors; Part I: Microbes for Sustainable Food Production; 1: Importance of Soil Microbes in Nutrient Use Efficiency and Sustainable Food Production; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 A Way Toward Healthy Soil: Integrated Soil Fertility Management; 1.3 Soil Carbon: A Key to Sustainability; 1.4 The Soil-Microbe System; 1.5 Seed Inoculants/Biopriming for Use in Agriculture; 1.6 The Rhizosphere: An Unknown World; 1.7 Use of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi; 1.8 Conclusions; References; 2: Nutrient Solubilizing Microbes (NSMs): Its Role in Sustainable Crop Production.
  • 2.1 Introduction2.2 Nitrogen; 2.2.1 Nitrogen Status in Soil; 2.2.2 Organic Nitrogen; 2.2.3 Inorganic Nitrogen; 2.2.4 Role of Nitrogen in Plants; 2.2.5 Deficiency and Excess of Nitrogen; 2.2.6 Nitrogen-Fixing Rhizobacteria; 2.2.7 Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Rhizobacteria; 2.2.8 Rhizobium (Family: Rhizobiaceae); 2.2.9 Non-symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Rhizobacteria; 2.2.9.1 Azotobacter (Family: Azotobacteriaceae); 2.2.9.2 Azospirillum (Family: Spirillaceae); 2.2.9.3 Acetobacter (Family: Acetobacteriaceae); 2.2.9.4 Azoarcus; 2.3 Phosphorus; 2.3.1 Phosphorus Status in Soils.
  • 2.3.2 Role of Phosphorus in Plants2.3.3 Phosphorus Fixation in Soils; 2.3.4 P-Solubilizing Rhizobacteria (PSR); 2.3.5 Mechanism of P-Solubilizing Rhizobacteria; 2.4 Potassium; 2.4.1 Potassium (K) Status in Soil; 2.4.2 Role of Potassium in Plants; 2.4.3 K-Solubilizing Rhizobacteria; 2.4.4 Mechanism of K-Solubilizing Rhizobacteria; 2.5 Zinc; 2.5.1 Zinc Status in Soils; 2.5.2 Role of Zinc in Plants; 2.5.3 Deficiency of Zinc in Plants; 2.5.4 Zn-Solubilizing Rhizobacteria (ZSR); 2.5.5 Mechanism of Zn-Solubilizing Rhizobacteria; 2.6 Silicon; 2.6.1 Silicon Status in Soils.
  • 2.6.2 Role of Silicon in Plants2.6.3 Si-Solubilizing Rhizobacteria (SSR); 2.6.4 Mechanism of Si-Solubilizing Rhizobacteria; 2.7 Role of Biotechnology to Develop Efficient Strain of Microorganism for Solubilization; 2.8 Concluding Remarks; References; 3: Implementation of Biofortification Technology by Using PGPR for Sustainable Agricultural Production; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Types of Nutrients and Their Importance for Plant Growth Enhancement; 3.3 Various Combinations of Interactions for Nutrient Uptake; 3.3.1 Rhizobacterial Interactions; 3.3.2 Fungal Interactions.
  • 3.3.3 Actinomycetes Interactions3.3.4 Cyanobacterial Interactions; 3.4 Role of Biofortifications for Enhancement of Nutrients; 3.5 Current Perspectives of PGPR Toward Biofortifications; 3.6 Conclusions and Future Prospective; References; 4: Biological Nitrogen Fixation for Sustainable Agriculture; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Diversity Among Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterial (NFB) Groups; 4.2.1 Blue-Green Algae (Cyanobacteria); 4.2.2 Lichens; 4.2.3 Associative N2 Fixers; 4.2.4 Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis; 4.2.5 N2-Fixing Nonlegumes; 4.2.6 Stem-Nodulating Legumes.

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