Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture

Part I. Microbes for Sustainable Food Production

1. Importance of Soil Microbes in Nutrient Use Efficiency and Sustainable Food Production
Sunita Kumari Meena, Vijay Singh Meena

2. Nutrient Solubilizing Microbes (NSMs): Its Role in Sustainable Crop Production
Narendra Kumawat, Rakesh Kumar, Sudhir Kumar, Vijay Singh Meena

3. Implementation of Biofortification Technology by Using PGPR for Sustainable Agricultural Production
Umesh Dhuldhaj, Urja Pandya

4. Biological Nitrogen Fixation for Sustainable Agriculture
Bholanath Saha, Sushanta Saha, Arpita Das, Prabir Kumar Bhattacharyya, Nirmalendu Basak, Abhas Kumar Sinha, Parthendu Poddar

5. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Its Role in Plant Nutrition in Sustainable Agriculture
Julio Alves Cardoso Filho, Roberto Ramos Sobrinho, Sergio Florentino Pascholati

6.
Paenibacillus polymyxa: A Prominent Biofertilizer and Biocontrol Agent for Sustainable Agriculture
Kiran Preet Padda, Akshit Puri, Chris P. Chanway

Part II. Microbes for Sustainable Crop Protection

7. Role of Pseudomonas sp. in Sustainable Agriculture and Disease Management
Ajay Kumar, Hariom Verma, Vipin Kumar Singh, Prem Pratap Singh, Sandeep Kumar Singh, Waquar Akhtar Ansari, Akhilesh Yadav, P. K. Singh, K. D. Pandey

8. Role of Nutrients in Controlling the Plant Diseases in Sustainable Agriculture
Nitika Gupta, Sovan Debnath, Sushma Sharma, Prachi Sharma, Jyotika Purohit

9. Integrated Mechanisms of Plant Disease Containment by Rhizospheric Bacteria: Unraveling the Signal Cross Talk Between Plant and Fluorescent Pseudomonas

Belur Satyan Kumudini, Nellickal Subramanyan Jayamohan, Savita Veeranagouda Patil

10. Toward Plant Defense Mechanisms Against Root Pathogens
Thorya Fallath, Ahmad Bin Rosli, Brendan Kidd, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Peer M. Schenk

11. Attempts for Biological Control of Ralstonia solanacearum by Using Beneficial Microorganisms
Pramod Kumar Sahu, Amrita Gupta, Kedarnath, Poonam Kumari, G. Lavanya, Abhishek Kumar Yadav

12. Prospect and Potential of Burkholderia sp. Against Phytophthora capsici Leonian: A Causative Agent for Foot Rot Disease of Black Pepper
Khairulmazmi Ahmad, Tijjani Ahmadu

Avainsanat: Life Sciences, Agriculture, Plant Physiology, Microbiology, Molecular Ecology, Sustainable Development