Short description:

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume explores the role of plant microbes in ecological and agricultural revitalization beyond normal agriculture practices and offers practical and applied solutions for the restoration of degraded lands. It provides a comprehensive platform for soil scientist, agriculture specialists, ecologists.

Long description:

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.

? 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.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Role of Soil Microorganisms in Sustainable Crop Production, Chapter 2. Microbial Mediated Molecular Mechanisms to Cope-up Salinity and Drought Stress in Plants , Chapter 3. Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Horticultural Crops: Gains and Provocations, Chapter 4. Endophytes and Their Role in Managing Degraded Land and Enhancing Food, Fodder, Fuel and Fiber Production , Chapter 5. Microbial Strategies for Improving the Food Crop Productivity Under Salinity and Drought, Chapter 6. Secondary Metabolites: Stress Busters for the Development of Resilience in Plants to Sustainable Agriculture, Chapter 7. Bacillus-based Biocontrol: Practical Applications for Sustainable Agriculture, Chapter 8. Recognizing Insight Interaction, Adaptation & Potentialities of Phyllosphere Microbiome Under Various Distress Towards Sustainable Plant Growth, Chapter 9. Importance of Bio-fertilizers in Turmeric (Curcuma Longa): Prospects and Challenges, Chapter 10. Role of Soil Organisms in Maintaining Soil Health, Chapter 11. Recent Advances in Potentiality of Microbes in Promoting Plant Growth and Managing Degraded Land , Chapter 12. Productivity Losses Through Bio-deterioration in Water Deficit Harvested Sugarcane, Chapter 13. Bio-inoculants: the Potential Microbes for Restoration of Degraded Soil