Microbes for Plant Stress Management

Contents: 1. Exploring microbes from extreme environments for crop productivity and environmental sustainability/Jeyabalan Sangeetha, Purushotham Prathima, Devarajan Thangadurai, Muniswamy David, Abhishek Mundaragi, Shrinivas Jadhav. 2. Rhizomicrobiome - a biological software to augment soil fertility and plant induced systemic tolerance under abiotic stress/Jegan S., Baskaran V., Ganga V., Kathiravan, R. and Prabavathy, V.R. 3. Microorganisms for abiotic stress management in crop plants: recent developments in India/Minakshi Grover, Venkateswarlu B., Desai S., Yadav, S.K., Maheswari, M. and Srinivasa Rao Ch. 4. Endurance to stress: an insight into innate stress by management mechanisms in plants/Krishna Sundari Sattiraju and Srishti Kotiyal. 5. Microbial synthesis of nanoparticles for use in agriculture ecosystem/Tarafdar, J.C. and Indira Rathore. 6. Plant growth promoting microbes: potential tool for growth and development of plants in abiotic stress environments/Hruda Ranjan Sahoo and Nibha Gupta. 7. Endophytes and their possible roles in plant stress management/Sanjay K. Singh. 8. Application of endophytic microorganisms for alleviation of abiotic stresses in crop plants/Kamal K Pal and Rinku Dey. 9. The role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi in salt and drought stresses/Padmavathi Tallapragada. 10. Effect of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi and abiotic stress on growth and productivity of important cash crops/Shinde, B.P. 11. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi: role in alleviating salt stress in crop plants/Muthukumar, T., Bagyaraj, D.J. and Ashwin, R. 12. Contribution of AMF in the remediation of drought stress in soybean plants/Abhishek Bharti, Shivani Garg, Anil Prakash and Mahaveer P. Sharma. 13. Bioconversion of municipal solid waste and its use in soil fertility/Poonam Verma and Jamaluddin. 14. Microbial bioinoculants for quality seedling production in forestry/Parkash Vipin, Saikia, A.J. and Saikia, M.

It is predicted that the world population will reach about 9.7 billion by the year 2050 and to feed this population the food production has to be increased proportionately. Further we are all concerned about climate which in turn results in abiotic stresses like drought, salinity, etc. These abiotic stresses will seriously affect crop productivity. This approach has gained popularity in the recent years and seems to be a potential option for the future. The present book brings out the role of different groups of microorganisms in alleviating abiotic stress in crop plants.