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Rhizosphere Engineering
About This Book
Rhizosphere Engineering is a guide to applying environmentally sound agronomic practices to improve crop yield while also protecting soil resources. Focusing on the potential and positive impacts of appropriate practices, the book includes the use of beneficial microbes, nanotechnology and metagenomics. Developing and applying techniques that not only enhance yield, but also restore the quality of soil and water using beneficial microbes such as Bacillus, Pseudomonas, vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM) fungi and others are covered, along with new information on utilizing nanotechnology, quorum sensing and other technologies to further advance the science.
Designed to fill the gap between research and application, this book is written for advanced students, researchers and those seeking real-world insights for improving agricultural production.
- Explores the potential benefits of optimized rhizosphere
- Includes metagenomics and their emerging importance
- Presents insights into the use of biosurfactants
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Plant growth promotion by rhizosphere dwelling microbes
- Chapter 2: Indigenous nitrogen fixing microbes engineer rhizosphere and enhance nutrient availability and plant growth
- Chapter 3: Rhizospheric bacteria as soil health engineer promoting plant growth
- Chapter 4: Role of Bacillus species in soil fertility with reference to rhizosphere engineering
- Chapter 5: Rhizobium as soil health engineer
- Chapter 6: AzotobacterâA potential symbiotic rhizosphere engineer
- Chapter 7: Application of cyanobacteria in soil health and rhizospheric engineering
- Chapter 8: Bacterial inoculants for rhizosphere engineering: Applications, current aspects, and challenges
- Chapter 9: Microbial inoculants in agriculture and its effects on plant microbiome
- Chapter 10: Arbuscular mycorrhizaâA health engineer for abiotic stress alleviation
- Chapter 11: Potassium solubilizing microorganisms as soil health engineers: An insight into molecular mechanism
- Chapter 12: Zinc solubilizing rhizobacteria as soil health engineer managing zinc deficiency in plants
- Chapter 13: Rhizosphere engineering through pesticides-degrading beneficial bacteria
- Chapter 14: Enzymes in rhizosphere engineering
- Chapter 15: Actinobacterial enzymesâAn approach for engineering the rhizosphere microorganisms as plant growth promotors
- Chapter 16: Reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress in higher plants, and role of rhizosphere in soil remediation
- Chapter 17: Nanotechnology for rhizosphere engineering
- Chapter 18: Rhizospheric health management through nanofertilizers
- Chapter 19: Quorum sensing in rhizosphere engineering
- Chapter 20: Quorum sensing in rhizosphere microbiome: Minding some serious business
- Chapter 21: Metagenomics for rhizosphere engineering
- Chapter 22: Rhizosphere engineering for crop improvement
- Chapter 23: Bacterial induced alleviation of cadmium and arsenic toxicity stress in plants: Mechanisms and future prospects
- Chapter 24: Microbial community in soil-plant systems: Role in heavy metal(loid) detoxification and sustainable agriculture
- Chapter 25: Rhizosphere microbe-mediated alleviation of aluminum and iron toxicity in acidic soils
- Index