Role of Rhizospheric Microbes in Soil

Dr. Vijay Singh Meena is currently working as a soil scientist in the ICAR-Vivekananda Institute of Hill Agriculture, Almora, Uttarakhand. He obtained his B.Sc. (AG.) from SKRAU, Bikaner, Rajasthan, M.Sc. (AG.) and Ph.D. (AG.) with specialization in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University (The Capital of Knowledge), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has completed vital work on potassium-solubilizing microbes, soil biological fertility, rhizospheric chemistry, and conservation agriculture, and has published more than 30 original research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals. In addition, he has published four books and eleven book chapters.

• Towards the plant beneficiary rhizobacteria (PBR) and agricultural sustainability.- Soil microbial hotspots and hot moments: management vis-a-vis soil biodiversity.- Microbes: a sustainable approach for enhancing nutrient availability in agricultural soils.- Impact of land uses on microbial biomass C, N, P and microbial population in Indian Himalaya.- Molecular and physiological characterization of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria: methods and protocols.- Microbial transformation of sulphur: an approach to combat the sulphur deficiencies in agricultural soils.- Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and its role in sustainable agriculture: Present status and future prospective.- Towards the nutrient immobilization and mineralization in soil nitrogen.- Towards the bio-availability of zinc in agricultural soils.- Free living and associative symbiotic nitrogen-fixing microorganisms.- Phosphate solubilizing microbes: diversity and phosphates solubilization mechanism.- Role of phosphate solubilizing microbes in the enhancement of fertilizer value of rock phosphate through composting technology.- Use of plant growth promoting Burkholderia species with rock phosphate solubilizing potential towards crop improvement.- Zinc solubilizing bacteria for zinc biofortification in cereals: a step towards sustainable nutritional security.- Application and mechanisms of plant growth promoting fungi.- Towards the microbial transformation of phosphorus in agricultural soils.- Towards the mechanisms of nutrients solubilization and fixation in soil system.- Role of PGPR in sustainable agriculture: molecular approach towards disease suppression and growth promotion.