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Plant-microbe interaction is a powerful and promising link to mitigate the various kinds of stresses like drought, salinity, heavy metals, and pathogenic effects. It is more beneficial for crop improvement and sustainable approaches for reclamation of problematic soils. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the recent uses of plant-microbe interactions in ecological and agricultural revitalization beyond normal agriculture practices and offers practical and applied solutions for the restoration of degraded land to fulfill human needs with food, fodder, fuel, and fiber. It provides a single comprehensive platform for soil scientists, agriculture specialists, ecologists, and those in related disciplines.

Features

• Presents cutting-edge microbial biotechnology as a tool for restoring degraded lands

• Explores the aspects of sustainable development of degraded lands using microbe-inspired land remediation

• Highlights sustainable food production intensification in nutrient-poor lands through the innovative use of microbial inoculants

• Explains the remediation of polluted land for regaining biodiversity and achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

• Includes many real-life applications from South Asia offering solutions to today’s agricultural problems

This book will be of interest to professionals, researchers, and students in environmental, soil, and agricultural sciences, as well as stakeholders, policy makers, and practitioners with an interest in this field.

Plant-microbe interaction is a powerful and promising link to mitigate the various kinds of stresses like drought, salinity, heavy metals, and pathogenic effects. It is more beneficial for crop improvement and sustainable approaches for reclamation of problematic soils. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the recent uses of plant-microbe interactions in ecological and agricultural revitalization beyond normal agriculture practices and offers practical and applied solutions for the restoration of degraded land to fulfill human needs with food, fodder, fuel, and fiber. It provides a single comprehensive platform for soil scientists, agriculture specialists, ecologists, and those in related disciplines.

Features

• Presents cutting-edge microbial biotechnology as a tool for restoring degraded lands

• Explores the aspects of sustainable development of degraded lands using microbe-inspired land remediation

• Highlights sustainable food production intensification in nutrient-poor lands through the innovative use of microbial inoculants

• Explains the remediation of polluted land for regaining biodiversity and achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

• Includes many real-life applications from South Asia offering solutions to today’s agricultural problems

This book will be of interest to professionals, researchers, and students in environmental, soil, and agricultural sciences, as well as stakeholders, policy makers, and practitioners with an interest in this field.

Microorganisms are a good indicator of soil health. Plant growth-promoting microorganisms protect plants from the stresses of water, salt, metal, biotic, and so on, and are well known for strategically modulating the plant mechanisms to defend and mitigate environmental stresses. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume explores the role of plant microorganisms in ecological and agricultural revitalization beyond normal agriculture practices and offers practical and applied solutions for the restoration of degraded lands to fulfill human needs with food, fodder, fuel, and fiber. It also provides a single comprehensive platform for soil scientists, agriculture specialists, ecologists, and those in related disciplines.

Features

• Presents cutting-edge microbial biotechnology as a tool for restoring degraded lands

• Explores the aspects of sustainable development of degraded lands using microorganism-inspired land remediation

• Highlights sustainable food production intensification in nutrient-poor lands through innovative use of microbial inoculants

• Explains the remediation of polluted land for regaining biodiversity and achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

• Includes many real-life applications from South Asia offering solutions to today’s agricultural problems

This book will be of interest to professionals, researchers, and students in environmental, soil, and agricultural sciences as well as stakeholders, policy makers, and practitioners with an interest in this field.

Microorganisms are a good indicator of soil health. Plant growth-promoting microorganisms protect plants from the stresses of water, salt, metal, biotic, and so on, and are well known for strategically modulating the plant mechanisms to defend and mitigate environmental stresses. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume explores the role of plant microorganisms in ecological and agricultural revitalization beyond normal agriculture practices and offers practical and applied solutions for the restoration of degraded lands to fulfill human needs with food, fodder, fuel, and fiber. It also provides a single comprehensive platform for soil scientists, agriculture specialists, ecologists, and those in related disciplines.

Features

• Presents cutting-edge microbial biotechnology as a tool for restoring degraded lands

• Explores the aspects of sustainable development of degraded lands using microorganism-inspired land remediation

• Highlights sustainable food production intensification in nutrient-poor lands through innovative use of microbial inoculants

• Explains the remediation of polluted land for regaining biodiversity and achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

• Includes many real-life applications from South Asia offering solutions to today’s agricultural problems

This book will be of interest to professionals, researchers, and students in environmental, soil, and agricultural sciences as well as stakeholders, policy makers, and practitioners with an interest in this field.

This book provides research-based advancements into the effects of changing environmental conditions on the diverse plant-symbiont community. It summarizes the mechanisms employed by the microorganisms to improve plant tolerance towards the extreme climatic conditions. These mechanisms include metabolite exchange and metabolic cross-talk in the microbiome-root-shoot-environment nexus. This book also describes the recently discovered phenomenon, systematically-induced root exudation of metabolites, which explains how the rhizosphere microbiome governs the plant metabolism by inducing a systemic shift in root exudate metabolites. This book is then concluded by highlighting the role of advanced meta-omics tools and systemic metabolic engineering approaches in generating climate-resilient crops and microbes to tackle the cumulative degradation of soil health in agro-ecosystems.

This book is a reference for students, researchers and policymakers working in the field of microbiology, soil science, plant science, climate change and sustainable agriculture.