Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture under Stress Conditions

Functional Traits and Regulation

Tongmin Sa, Tongmin Sa

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780443131943
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Agriculture
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture under Abiotic Stress: Funtional Traits and Regulation highlights the potential for microbe-mediated stress phytolerance to be improved by presenting multiple scenarios of application and results.

In most research and studies, abiotic stress is applied singularly to specific plants inoculated with a bioinoculum or a bacterial consortium to isolate specific plant-microbe responses. However, in reality, plants are continually exposed to a multitude of different stresses simultaneously occurring. This book presents bacteria functional traits and bacteria-mediated plant responses under both specific or combined stress conditions. Collectively, it provides insights into bacterial functional traits and bacteria-mediated plant responses in a wide range of conditions, providing foundational understanding of their potential benefits, and inspiring further research.

The book centers on specific bacterial strains and groups which have been shown to effectively promote stress tolerance, and which could be utilized to boost agricultural production under stress conditions. Their potential utilization in stress affected lands not just improves crop production but could also be in line with sustainable agriculture.

With the advancement of tools such as Omics related technologies, emerging information on bacterial functional traits and regulations on bacteria mediated phytotolerance will also allow us to develop relevant biotechnologies harnessing potentials of plant-bacteria interactions under stress conditions. The information in this volume will be of interest to those working toward these next steps.

• Includes microbial functional traits and responses common to all stresses, unique to specific stress and shared by multiple stresses
• Focuses on microbial strains and groups proven to be most effective in promoting stress tolerance
• Explores opportunities toward improvement of sustainable agriculture and resulting food security

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• About the editor
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Plant–microbe interactions for enhanced plant tolerance to stress
• Chapter 2. Harnessing the functional mechanism of plant–microbiome interaction for abiotic stress management
• Chapter 3. Bacterial endophytes as bioinoculants: Establishment of intimate and multifunctional plant–endophyte interactions under nonstress and salt stress conditions
• Chapter 4. Prospects of plant growth–promoting bacteria against aggravated change in global climate
• Chapter 5. The potential of soil microbiomes in alleviating climate change–associated stresses on crop plants
• Chapter 6. Methylotrophs—A new dimension of functional plant probiotics for sustainable agriculture
• Chapter 7. Microbial synbiotics for sustainable nutrient stress management
• Chapter 8. Roles of phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in soil–plant system: From phosphorus deficiency to oversupply
• Chapter 9. Bioinoculant-assisted host salt tolerance
• Chapter 10. The role of the bacterial mVOCs in sustainable plant growth
• Chapter 11. Application of microorganisms for cross-protection against biotic and metal-induced oxidative stresses in plants
• Chapter 12. Combating heavy metal related stress response in plants through selective plant growth promoting mechanisms of metal-resistant bacteria
• Chapter 13. Strategies of cold-adapted PGPB to elicit cold-stress acclimatory responses in plants
• Chapter 14. Microbe-mediated amelioration of cold stress in plants: Mechanisms and challenges
• Chapter 15. Azospirillum-based aggregated cells as inoculant delivery for sustaining plant growth under challenging conditions
• Chapter 16. Conserving soil microbial population and sustainable agricultural practices—Polymers in aid of safe delivery, protection, population enhancement, and maintenance
• Chapter 17. Methodological and interpretational problems in plant growth-promoting bacteria inoculation studies
• Chapter 18. Unveiling the dynamics of crop growth: Chemical versus biofertilizers in the context of internal and external factors
• Chapter 19. Understanding the changes and roles of rhizosphere microbial communities under plant stress
• Chapter 20. Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria: A potential inoculant for plant nutrition and abiotic stress mitigator in calcareous soil
• Chapter 21. Sustainable release of phosphorus under heavy metal stresses: From microbiology to productivity
• Chapter 22. Microbe-mediated UV stress tolerance in terrestrial plants
• Chapter 23. Plant growth–promoting fungi in plants: Insights from stress tolerance mechanism
• Index