Microbial Interventions in Soil

Enhancing Nutrient Management for Sustainable Agriculture

AvPuneet Singh Chauhan,Nikita Bisht

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Del i serien Biostimulants and Protective Biochemical Agents

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Microbial Interventions in Soil, in the Biostimulants and Protective Biochemical Agents series, advances a single proposition: high-throughput sequencing converts attributes that earlier diversity surveys could only enumerate into manipulable determinants of fertility, stress tolerance, and land rehabilitation. Its chapters trace a graded progression from characterizing the active soil microbiota, through harnessing, and ultimately rebuilding, it.
At its least invasive, intervention applies capacities the community already holds: microbial solubilization of phosphate and other minerals, and the metabolic plasticity through which roots acquire the nutrients so released. Cyanobacteria and rhizosphere assemblages thereby act as proximate agents of both soil health and productivity, and the response of paddy systems to organic versus inorganic fertilization becomes predictable from community composition rather than input quantity.
Where resident function proves insufficient, the work shifts toward targeted engineering. Bacterial endophytes and defined consortia are assembled to suppress phytopathogens, confer stress resilience, and stabilize yield under salinity, while molecular and material tools carry the same intent further, remediating arsenic-laden soils, breaking down recalcitrant pesticides, and formulating biofertilizers and biostimulants through genetic modification and nanotechnology.
For specialists in soil microbiology and sustainable agronomy, this volume consolidates the methods and principles required to translate sequence-level data into deployable solutions at field scale.

  • Spans foundational microbial ecology through to applied biotechnology, grounding each method in the ecological principle that accounts for it.
  • Examines microbial mediation of carbon sequestration as a process operating in parallel with nutrient cycling.
  • Extends its analytical range across arable, forest, and degraded soils, including land affected by heavy-metal and pesticide contamination.
  • Addresses the physical dimension of soil alongside its biology, relating microbial activity to compaction and the spatial distribution of nutrients.

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