Plant Microbiome for Plant Productivity and Sustainable Agriculture , 1st ed. 2023 Microorganisms for Sustainability Series, Vol. 37

This edited book deals with latest comprehensive information on conventional and high throughput techniques and technologies that are recently used to study plant microbial interface for agricultural research and enhancing plant productivity. Plant microbiota are important for many plant growth promotion activity and agricultural productivity and are sustainable green technology for enhancing agricultural productivity under changing environment. 

The book covers recent information about the plant associated microbiota and their ecology. It discusses technologies to isolate and test microbiota inhabiting in different portion of plants. The book explores the conventional methods as well as the most recently recognized high throughput technologies which are important for productive agroecosystems to feed the growing global population.

This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, microbiologist, plant and environmental scientist and those interested in environment stewardship around the world. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, forestry, ecology, soil science, and environmental sciences and policy makers to be a useful to read.

Chapter 1. Fungal microbiomes The functional potential for plant growth promotion and opportunities for agriculture.- Chapter 2. Unearthing the Modern Trends and Concepts of Rhizosphere Microbiome in Relation to Plant Productivity.- Chapter 3. The Role of the Root Microbiome in the Utilization of Functional Traits for Increasing Plant Productivity.- Chapter 4. Crop microbiome for sustainable agriculture in special reference to nanobiology.- Chapter 5. Changes in plant microbiome in response to abiotic stress.- Chapter 6. Functional potential of plant microbiome for sustainable agriculture in conditions of abiotic stresses.- Chapter 7. The Beneficial Plant Microbial Association for Sustainable Agriculture.- Chapter 8. Microbiome of plants: The diversity distribution and their potential for sustainable agriculture.- Chapter 9. Decoding Beneficial Plant Microbe Association with Latest Techniques for Sustainable Agriculture.- Chapter 10. Phosphate solubilizing microorganisms Multifarious Applications.- Chapter 11. Bacillus and Streptomyces for management of biotic stresses in plants for sustainable Agriculture.- Chapter 12.Omic Route to Utilize Endophytes and their functional potentials in Plant Growth Advancement.- Chapter 13. Siderophore production in Iron uptake and plant biofortification.- Chapter 14. Plant microbiome diversity and potential for crops and sustainable agriculture.- Chapter 15. Endophytic phytohormone production and utilization of functional traits in plant growth promotion.- Chapter 16. Role of endophytic microorganisms in phosphate solubilization and phytoremediation of degraded soils.- Chapter 17. Techniques to Study Plant-Microbe Interactions that Leads to Efficient Sustainable Agriculture.- Chapter 18. Plant microbiome in agroecosystems for sustainable agriculture and environments.

Dr. Sagar Chhabra received his Ph.D. in Environmental Microbiology from the South East Technological University, Ireland, and has several years of postdoctoral experience working in Canada and Ireland in the field of agricultural and environmental microbiology and biotechnology. Dr. Chhabra is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Grade III) in the Department of Biosciences at Galgotias University, India, and previously worked as a Senior Researcher and Scientist in an industry in Ireland working on microbial product development for plant growth promotion and environmental clean-up. Dr. Chhabra has published several papers in the areas of plant and soil microbiomes and microbial ecology and has several national and international fellowships, travel grants, and other awards as a researcher 

Dr. Ram Prasad, Ph.D. is associated with the Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research interest includes applied and environmental microbiology, plant-microbe-interactions, sustainable agriculture, and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than two hundred fifty publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles, and book chapters and six patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. Dr. Prasad has thirteen years of teaching experience and has been awarded the Young Scientist Award and Prof. J.S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal by the International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship by the Society for Applied Biotechnology; the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators, USA; Outstanding Scientist Award in the field of Microbiology; BRICPL Science Investigator Award and Research Excellence Award etc. He has been serving as an editorial board member of BMC Microbiology, BMC Biotechnology, Current Microbiology, Archives of Microbiology, Annals of Microbiology, IET Nanobiotechnology, Journal of Nanomaterials

Explains the basic and advanced concepts related to plant microbiota

Includes section to study functional traits and importance of plant microbiota in agroecosystems

Provides easy-to-follow description and references