New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering Sustainable Agriculture: Microorganisms as Biostimulants

This book provides a comprehensive overview of different agriculturally important microorganisms and their role as plant biostimulants. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Trichoderma, Cyanobacteria, Endophytes, and Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria have the potential to promote plant growth, disease management, nutrient acquisition, stress alleviation, and soil health management. Presenting an all-inclusive collection of information, this book will be important for students, academicians, researchers working in the field of sustainable agriculture, microbial technology, and biochemical engineers. It will also be of use for policymakers in the area of food security and sustainable agriculture.

1. Role of Microorganism as new generation plant bio-stimulants: An assessment
2. Exploiting biostimulant properties of Trichoderma for sustainable plant production
3. Bacilli Rhizobacteria: A versatile biostimulant for sustainable Agriculture
4. Arbuscular Mycorrhizae, a Treasured Symbiont to Agriculture
5. Micro and Macroalgae: A Potential Biostimulant for Abiotic Stress Management and Crop Production
6. Fluorescent Pseudomonads: A Multifaceted Biocontrol Agent for Sustainable Agriculture
7. Role of Piriformospora indica in inducing soil microbial communities and drought stress tolerance in plants
8. Microbes-based bio-stimulants towards sustainable oilseeds production: Nutrients recycling and genetics involved
9. Role of soil microbes in micronutrient solubilization
10. Sustainable induction of systemic resistance in response to potential biological control agents in crops
11. Psychrophilic Microbes: Biodiversity, Beneficial Role and Improvement of Cold Stress in Crop Plants
12. Role of plant-associated bacteria as bio-stimulants in alleviation of chromium toxicity in plants
13. Microbe-based plant biostimulants and their formulations for growth promotion and stress tolerance in plants
14. Microbial consortia for Augmentation of Plant Growth–Revisiting the promising approach toward sustainable agriculture
15. Phosphate solubilization by microorganisms
16. Fungal endophytes as biostimulants of secondary metabolism in plants: a sustainable agricultural practice for medicinal crops
17. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria from the Perspectives of Tea Plantations and Diseases
18. Microbiome-based approaches to enhance soil health in arable land
19. Deciphering microbial consortium from termite gut for biofertilizer consortium formulation
20. Revivification of rhizobacteria-promoting plant growth for sustainable agricultural development

Prof. H. B. Singh works as Distinguished Professor, Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, Mathura from August 1, 2020 to date. He is a Visiting Professor at Cornell University and University of Illinois, USA, Sau Paulo State University, Sorocaba, Brazil. He is honoured with 22 National and International prestigious awards including the CSIR Award for S&;T Innovation and Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences Successfully completed 21 research projects funded by various funding agencies. Established fruitful research collaborations with academic and industry researchers and published jointly with national and international collaborators in high impact journals and obtained 19 patents
Dr. Anukool Vaishnav is working as a Postdoctoral Scientist (Swiss excellence fellow) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is also associated with the Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, India, as an Assistant Professor. He has operated the SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship as Principal Investigator at the Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. As an active researcher, he has published more than 45 publications and 6 books. He has also received several fellowships and young scientist awards from different agencies.