Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Biofertilizers : their role in integrated nutrient management/K.V.B.R. Tilak. 2. Transgenic microbial inoculants for sustainable agriculture/G. Krishna Kishore and A.R. Podile. 3. Bioinoculants for sustainable forestry/Jamaluddin. 4. Heavy metal tolerance of ectomycorrhizal fungi and utility of metal tolerant EM fungal strains in reclaiming wastelands created by mining operations/Vandana Gupta, Sanjeev Kumar and T. Satyanarayana. 5. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their SEM aspects/C. Manoharachary. 6. Different levels of VAM inoculum application on growth and nutrition of tomato in the nursery/G. Mamatha and D.J. Bagyaraj. 7. VA mycorrhizal fungi associated with Phyllanthus amarus and Withania somnifera/N. Earanna and D.J. Bagyaraj. 8. Impact of Glomus fasciculatum (VAM) and phosphates on biomass yield and chlorophyll contents of Saccharum officinarum L/Kamal Prasad and R.S. Bilgrami. 9. Mycorrhizal association with traditional minor millets and their exploitation for sustainable agriculture in upland/A.K. Roy and Rashmi Kumari.10. Actinorrhiza of Casuarina/S.C. Halbe and L.N. Nair. 11. Actinorrhiza—a short review/L.N. Nair. 12. Current status of Azospirillum—plant association/N. Ramanathan. 13. Developing stress tolerant strains in Azospirillum/K. Vijila, S. Thiruchenthilvasan and D. Purushothaman. 14. Studies on the effect of Rhizobium inoculation on blackgram/A.S. Reddy and K.V. Mallaiah. 15. Cyanobacterial biofertilizer for sustainable agriculture/P. Malliga and G. Subramanian. 16. Phosphate solubilizing microbes : a potential bioinoculant for efficient use of phosphate fertilizers/M.G. Patil, R.Z. Sayyed, A.B. Chaudhari and S.B. Chincholkar. 17. Variations in microbial load and their activity in sandalwood growing in hilly zone of Karnataka/G. Mamatha, M.S. Shivayogi, D.J. Bagyaraj and C.K. Suresh. 18. Entomopathogens in the management of agro-ecosystem/B.J. Divakar and Sheila Prabhakar. 19. Viral bioinoculants in pest control/S. Ram Reddy and S.M. Reddy. 20. Biological control of soil-borne diseases/C. Pramod Chandra Kumar. 21. Biocontrol of plant pathogens by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for sustainable agriculture/N. Raman, M. Gnanaguru and V. Srinivasan. 22. Biocontrol of apple root rot—a review/Ashwani Tapwal, Y.P. Sharma and T.N. Lakhanpal. 23. Development of "Mycohit", the first mycoacaricide base exclusively on Hirsutella thompsonii, for suppressing the coconut mite in India/P. Sreeram Kumar and S.P. Singh. 24. Role of the acaropathogenic fungus Hirsutella thompsonii, fisher in the natural suppression of the coconut eriophyid mite, Aceria guerreronis Keifer in Andhra Pradesh, India/P. Sreeram Kumar, S.P. Singh, K.N. Marula Siddesha and C.P. Anuroop.
"This book forms the proceedings of National Symposium and covers different aspects of biofertilizers and biocontrol agents. The contributions are from the leading microbiologists in their respective fields. The book presents a holistic picture of role of microorganisms in plant growth and development on one hand and plant protection on the other. An up-date information is provided in this book. Role of biofertilizers in integrated nutrient management was highlighted and similarly the need of transgenic microbial inoculants for sustainable agriculture was emphasized. A role of ectomycorrhizae in heavy metal tolerance and in reclaiming wastelands was also discussed.
"Structure and importance of VAM fungi in growth and development of medicinal plants, tomato, sugarcane and millets was elucidated by different workers. A critical review on actinorrhizae was also included. Azospirillum plant association in stress tolerance was elaborated. Need of cyanobacterial biofertilizers for sustainable agriculture is also detailed. Phosphate solubilizing microbes and other microorganisms and plant productivity are dealt in two different chapters.
"Beneficial effect of Rhizobium on black gram was also given. Management of pests through microbial pathogens including viruses, and VAM fungi was discussed. Management of mites through fungi formed the last two chapters."
