Advances in Plant Microbiome Research for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Toward Sustainable Farming

Ashwani Kumar

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040098530
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Botany
• Index: Biological Sciences

This new book, Advances in Plant Microbiome Research for Climate-Resilient Agriculture: Toward Sustainable Farming, covers important aspects of plant microbiome research through contributions from scientists with the latest information available in this area of research.

The book provides an introduction to the concept of plant microbiome and its importance for climate-resistant crop plants and discusses the tools and techniques to analyze plant microbiome for sustainable agriculture productivity. It covers microbial endophytes as warriors for plant defense against abiotic and biotic stress. The book also highlights the importance of phyto-microbiomes and presents an overview of the role of metabolomics in bioremediation for sustainable crop production, introducing various metabolomics tools such as GC-MS, LC-MS, and NMR for the sustainable remediation of toxic pollutants from the environment. Web sources and software for metabolomics data interpretation are included as well.

The book discusses abiotic and biotic stresses and their effects on crops, the concept and strategies of the rhizosphere microbiome manipulation in crop improvement, the microbial traits in plant stress tolerance and their importance for agriculture, exogenous applications of several compounds and phyto-microbiomes that mitigate the negative effects of salt stress on maize, and the beneficial plant microbial association for sustainable agriculture.

With its coverage of the recent research on the current methods and technological advancements for increasing plant resilience to adverse climate scenarios, this volume will be a rich resource for botanists, plant specialists, and researchers concerned with crop science, plant physiology, and plant protection.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Editor
• Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Plant Microbiome Research: Tools and Techniques to Analyze Plant Microbiome for Sustainable Agriculture Productivity
• 2. Microbial Endophytes as Warriors for Plant Defense Against Abiotic and Biotic Stress
• 3. Phyto-Microbiomes: Role in Sustainable Agriculture Practices Under Abiotic Stress
• 4. Role of Metabolomics in Bioremediation for Sustainable Crop Production
• 5. Plant Endomicrobiome Services in Global Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability
• 6. Future Perspectives of Endophytic Microbiome in Sustainable Agriculture
• 7. Impact of Abiotic and Biotic Stresses on Agricultural Crop
• 8. Rhizosphere Microbiome Manipulation
• 9. Microbial Traits in Plant Stress Tolerance and Importance for Agriculture
• 10. Adaptation Strategies for Salinity Stress in Maize: An Overview on Exogenous Chemical and Phyto-Microbiome Approaches
• 11. The Beneficial Plant Microbial Association for Sustainable Agriculture
• Index