Plant Science & Botany

Advances in Plant Microbiome Research for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Toward Sustainable Farming

Editor: Ashwani Kumar, PhD

Advances in Plant Microbiome Research for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: August 2024
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774917640
E-Book ISBN: 9781003501893
Pages: 268PP w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 11 color and 1 b/w illustrations

This new book, Advances in Plant Microbiome Research for Climate-Resilient Agriculture: Toward Sustainable Farming, covers important aspects of plant microbiome research through contributions from scientists with the latest information available in this area of research.

The book provides an introduction to the concept of plant microbiome and its importance for climate-resistant crop plants and discusses the tools and techniques to analyze plant microbiome for sustainable agriculture productivity. It covers microbial endophytes as warriors for plant defense against abiotic and biotic stress. The book also highlights the importance of phyto-microbiomes and presents an overview of the role of metabolomics in bioremediation for sustainable crop production, introducing various metabolomics tools such as GC-MS, LC-MS, and NMR for the sustainable remediation of toxic pollutants from the environment. Web sources and software for metabolomics data interpretation are included as well.

The book discusses abiotic and biotic stresses and their effects on crops, the concept and strategies of the rhizosphere microbiome manipulation in crop improvement, the microbial traits in plant stress tolerance and their importance for agriculture, exogenous applications of several compounds and phyto-microbiomes that mitigate the negative effects of salt stress on maize, and the beneficial plant microbial association for sustainable agriculture.

With its coverage of the recent research on the current methods and technological advancements for increasing plant resilience to adverse climate scenarios, this volume will be a rich resource for botanists, plant specialists, and researchers concerned with crop science, plant physiology, and plant protection.

CONTENTS:
Preface

Introduction

1. Plant Microbiome Research: Tools and Techniques to Analyze Plant Microbiome for Sustainable Agriculture Productivity

Ashwani Kumar and Aman Raj

2. Microbial Endophytes as Warriors for Plant Defense Against Abiotic and Biotic Stresses
Anamika Dubey, Diksha Saiyam, and Ashwani Kumar

3. Phyto-Microbiomes: Role in Sustainable Agriculture Practices under Abiotic Stress
Anamika Dubey, Aman Raj, Muneer Ahmad Malla, Mohammad Latif Khan, and Ashwani Kumar

4. Role of Metabolomics in Bioremediation for Sustainable Crop Production
Aman Raj, Anamika Dubey, Muneer Ahmad Malla, and Ashwani Kumar

5. Plant Endomicrobiome Services in Global Food Security and Agriculture Sustainability
Shobhit Raj Vimal, Jay Shankar Singh, and Sheo Mohan Prasad

6. Future Perspectives of Endophytic Microbiome in Sustainable Agriculture
Kanika Chowdhary, Himanshu Arora, and Satyawati Sharma

7. Impact of Abiotic and Biotic Stresses on Agricultural Crops
Meena Singh, Akanksha Kumari, and Poonam Dehariya

8. Rhizosphere Microbiome Manipulation
Muhammad Siddique Afridi, Abdul Salam, and Flavio Henrique Vasconcelos De Medeiros

9. Microbial Traits in Plant Stress Tolerance and the Importance for Agriculture
Muhammad Ammar Javed, Aroona Saleem, Aqsa Hafeez, and Baber Ali

10. Adaptation Strategies for Salinity Stress in Maize: An Overview on Exogenous Chemical and Phyto-Microbiome Approaches
Ayman El Sabagh, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Humaira Yasmin, Mohsin Zafar, Tayyab Shafiq, Karthika Rajendran, Rubab Shabbir, Talha Javed, Md. Tahjib-Ul-Arif, Arpna Kumari, Fatih Çi?, Sipan Soysal, Javeed Lone, M. Ammar Raza, and Murat Erman

11. The Beneficial Plant Microbial Association for Sustainable Agriculture
Eeman Fatima, Muhammad Ammar Javed, Aqsa Hafeez, and Baber Ali

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editor: Ashwani Kumar, PhD
Associate Professor, Metagenomics & Secretomics Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, India; Metagenomics & Secretomics Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, India

Ashwani Kumar, PhD, is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany at the University of Allahabad (A Central University), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is also affiliated with the Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory in the Department of Botany, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India, where he worked for more than nine years. His research focuses on plant-microbe interactions, metagenomics, lignocellulosic biofuels, and bioremediation. Honored with several awards and fellowships throughout his career, he has published over 80 articles, 30 book chapters, and one edited book to date. He is serving as an editorial board member for several prestigious journals. Dr. Kumar has been featured in the Top 2% of the World Scientists List three times to date (2020, 2021, 2022). He is a life member of several professional organizations in India, and he was elected as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, the International Society of Environmental Botanists, and the National Institute of Ecology. Dr. Kumar earned his PhD in Bioenergy at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Durban University of Technology and Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.




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