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Soil Microbiomes for Sustainable Agriculture - Functional Annotation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Soil Microbiomes for Sustainable Agriculture - Functional Annotation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, 27
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This book encompasses current knowledge of soil microbiomes and
their potential biotechnological application for plant growth, crop
yield, and soil health under the natural as well as harsh
environmental conditions for sustainable agriculture. The microbes
are ubiquitous in nature. The soil is a natural hotspot of the soil
microbiome. The soil microbiome plays a critical role in the
maintenance of global nutrient balance and ecosystem functioning.
The soil microbiomes are associated with plant ecosystems through
the intense network of plant-microbe interactions. The microbes
present in bulk soil move toward the rhizospheric region due to the
release of different nutrients by plant systems. The rhizospheric
microbes may survive or proliferate in rhizospheric zone depending
on the extent of influences of the chemicals secreted into the soil
by roots. The root exudates contain the principal nutrients factors
(amino acids, glucose, fructose, and sucrose). The microbes present
in rhizospheric region have capabilities to fix atmospheric
nitrogen, produce different phytohormones, and solubilize
phosphorus, potassium, and zinc. The plant systems take these
nutrients for their growth and developments. These soil and plant
associated microbes also play an important role in protection of
plants from different plant pathogenic organisms by producing
different secondary metabolites such as ammonia, hydrogen cyanide,
siderophores, and hydrolytic enzymes. The soil microbiomes with
plant growth-promoting (PGP) attributes have emerged as an
important and promising tool for sustainable agriculture. The soil
microbiomes promote the plant growth and enhance the crop yield and
soil fertility via directly or indirectly different plant
growth-promoting mechanism. The soil microbes help the plant for
adaptation in extreme habitats by mitigating the abiotic stress of
high/low temperatures, hypersalinity, drought, and acidic/alkaline
soil. These PGP microbes are used as biofertilizers/bioinoculants
to replace the harmful chemical fertilizers for sustainable
agriculture and environments. The aim of the book "Soil Microbiomes
for Sustainable Agriculture" is to provide the recent advances in
mechanisms of plant growth promotion and applications of soil
microbiomes for mitigation of different abiotic stresses in plants.
The book is useful to scientists, researchers, and students related
to microbiology, biotechnology, agriculture, molecular biology,
environmental biology, and related subjects.
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