Environmental Science/Climate Change & Mitigation

Current Advances in Biodiversity, Conservation and Environmental Sciences

Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management
Editors: Jeyabalan Sangeetha, PhD
Devarajan Thangadurai, PhD
Saher Islam

Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management

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Pub Date: April 2020
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Hard ISBN: 9781771888189
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77463-509-4
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E-Book ISBN: 9780429284137
Pages: 420pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback
Series: Current Advances in Biodiversity, Conservation and Environmental Sciences
Notes: 11 color and 19 b/w illustrations

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This volume, Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management, reviews the multifaceted interactions among microbes, ecosystems, and their pivotal role in maintaining a more balanced environment, in order to help facilitate living organisms coexisting with the natural environment.

Microbes are the most abundant organisms in the biosphere and regulate many critical elemental and biogeochemical phenomenona. Because microbes are the key players in the carbon cycle and in related biological reactions, microbial ecology is a vital research area for understanding the contribution of the biosphere in global warming and the response of the natural environment to climate variations. The beneficial uses of microbes have enabled constructive and cost-effective responses that have not been possible through physical or chemical methods.

This book provides valuable information on microbial utilization for environmental sustainability and provides fascinating insights into microbial diversity.

Key features:
  • Looks at enhancing plant production through growth-promoting arbuscular mycorrhizae, endophytic bacteria, and microbiome networks

  • Considers microbial degradation and environmental management of e-wastes and azo dyes

  • Explores soil-plant microbe interactions in metal-contaminated soils

  • Examines radiation-resistant thermophiles for engineered bioremediation

  • Describes potential indigenous/effective microbes for wastewater treatment processes

  • Presents research on earthworms and microbes for organic farming

CONTENTS:
Preface

1. Mycorrhiza: A Potential Bio-Enhancer in Agriculture Production Systems
Bakulranjan Jana

2. Plant Growth Promoting Microbiome Networks


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Jeyabalan Sangeetha, PhD
Assistant Professor, Central University of Kerala at Kasaragod, South India

Jeyabalan Sangeetha, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Central University of Kerala at Kasaragod, South India. She earned her BSc in Microbiology and PhD in Environmental Science from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. She holds an MSc in Environmental Science from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. She is the recipient of a Tamil Nadu Government Scholarship and a Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship of the University Grants Commission, Government of India, for her doctoral studies. She served as a Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow and as an UGC Postdoctoral Fellow at Karnatak University, Dharwad, South India, during 2012

Devarajan Thangadurai, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor, Karnatak University, South India; Editor-in-Chief, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering and Acta Biologica Indica

Devarajan Thangadurai, PhD, is Senior Assistant Professor at Karnatak University in South India and Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering and Acta Biologica Indica. He received his PhD in Botany from Sri Krishnadevaraya University in South India as a Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) Senior Research Fellow with funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Madeira, Portugal; University of Delhi, India; and Indian Council of Agricultural Research National Research Centre for Banana, India. He is the recipient of the Best Young Scientist Award with a Gold Medal from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India, and the VGST-SMYSR Young Scientist Award of the Government of Karnataka, India. He has authored or edited twenty books with publishers of national/international reputations. He has also visited 20 countries in East, South, Southeast and West Asia; Eastern, Southern and Western Europe; and North Africa and the Middle East for academic visits, scientific meetings, and international collaborations.

Saher Islam
IRSIP Scholar, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA; PhD Candidate in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Saher Islam, MPhil, is an International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP) Scholar at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA; a PhD candidate in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology; and a Higher Education Commission Scholar of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. She received her MPhil in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and her BS (Hons.) in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Lahore. She worked as a Research Associate in projects funded by Grand Challenges, Canada, and served as an intern with the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Lahore. She has visited the USA, UK, Singapore, Germany, UAE, Egypt, Italy, Russia, Maldives, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka for training, courses, and meetings. She is the recipient of a European Molecular Biology Laboratory Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grant and a travel grant from the Wildlife Conservation Society. She has research interests in biodiversity, conservation, genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology, and bioinformatics.




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