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Agriculturally Important Fungi for Sustainable Agriculture - Volume 1: Perspective for Diversity and Crop Productivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Agriculturally Important Fungi for Sustainable Agriculture - Volume 1: Perspective for Diversity and Crop Productivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Fungal Biology
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Microbes are ubiquitous in nature. Among microbes, fungal
communities play an important role in agriculture, the environment,
and medicine. Vast fungal diversity has been associated with plant
systems, namely epiphytic fungi, endophytic fungi, and rhizospheric
fungi. These fungi associated with plant systems play an important
role in plant growth, crop yield, and soil health. Rhizospheric
fungi, present in rhizospheric zones, get their nutrients from root
exudates released by plant root systems, which help with their
growth, development, and microbe activity. Endophytic fungi
typically enter plant hosts through naturally occurring wounds that
are the result of plant growth, through root hairs, or at epidermal
conjunctions. Phyllospheric fungi may survive or proliferate on
leaves depending on material influences in leaf diffuseness or
exudates. The diverse nature of these fungal communities is a key
component of soil-plant systems, where they are engaged in a
network of interactions endophytically, phyllospherically, as well
as in the rhizosphere, and thus have emerged as a promising tool
for sustainable agriculture. These fungal communities promote plant
growth directly and indirectly by using plant growth promoting
(PGP) attributes. These PGP fungi can be used as biofertilizers and
biocontrol agents in place of chemical fertilizers and pesticides
for a more eco-friendly method of promoting sustainable agriculture
and environments. This first volume of a two-volume set covers the
biodiversity of plant-associated fungal communities and their role
in plant growth promotion, the mitigation of abiotic stress, and
soil fertility for sustainable agriculture. This book should be
useful to those working in the biological sciences, especially for
microbiologists, microbial biotechnologists, biochemists, and
researchers and scientists of fungal biotechnology.
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