Microbial Based Land Restoration Handbook, Volume 2: Soil and Plant Health Development

312 Pages·2022·17.056 MB·English

by  Vimal Pandey, Umesh Pankaj

Microbial Based Land
Restoration Handbook
Microorganisms are a good indicator of soil health. Plant growth-promoting micro-
organisms protect plants from the stresses of water, salt, metal, biotic, and so on,
and are well known for strategically modulating the plant mechanisms to defend and
mitigate environmental stresses. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume
explores the role of plant microorganisms in ecological and agricultural revitalization
beyond normal agriculture practices and offers practical and applied solutions for
the restoration of degraded lands to fulfill human needs with food, fodder, fuel, and
fiber. It also provides a single comprehensive platform for soil scientists, agriculture
specialists, ecologists, and those in related disciplines.
Features
• Presents cutting-edge microbial biotechnology as a tool for restoring
degraded lands
• Explores the aspects of sustainable development of degraded lands using
microorganism-inspired land remediation
• Highlights sustainable food production intensification in nutrient-poor
lands through innovative use of microbial inoculants
• Explains the remediation of polluted land for regaining biodiversity and
achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
• Includes many real-life applications from South Asia offering solutions to
today’s agricultural problems
This book will be of interest to professionals, researchers, and students in environ-
mental, soil, and agricultural sciences as well as stakeholders, policy makers, and
practitioners with an interest in this field.

Microbial Based Land
Restoration Handbook
VOLUME 2
Soil and Plant Health Development
Edited by
Vimal Chandra Pandey and Umesh Pankaj
First edition published 2023
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to our beloved mothers.
—Vimal Chandra Pandey and Umesh Pankaj

Contents
Foreword ...................................................................................................................ix
Preface.......................................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments ..................................................................................................xiii
Editors ......................................................................................................................xv
Contributors ...........................................................................................................xvii
Chapter 1 Role of Soil Microorganisms in Sustainable Crop Production ............1
Amrinder Kaur and Ritu Rani
Chapter 2 Microbial-Mediated Molecular Mechanisms to Cope Up
Salinity and Drought Stress in Plants ................................................31
Kanchan Yadav, Pooja Yadav, and Kunal Singh
Chapter 3 Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Horticultural Crops:
Gains and Provocations ......................................................................65
Hari Kesh, Ashutosh Srivastava, and Prashant Kaushik
Chapter 4 Endophytes and Their Role in Managing Degraded Land
and Enhancing Food, Fodder, Fuel and Fibre Production .................93
Deepamala Maji, Suman Singh, and Ashutosh Awasthi
Chapter 5 Microbial Strategies for Improving Food Crop
Productivity under Salinity and Drought .........................................113
Savitha T, Abhishek Sharma, Ashraf Y.Z. Khalifa,
and A. Sankaranarayanan
Chapter 6 Secondary Metabolites: Stress Busters for the Development
of Resilience in Plants to Sustainable Agriculture ...........................131
Priyanka Sati, Eshita Sharma, Deepa Minakshi,
Ruchi Soni, and Praveen Dhyani
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Chapter 7 Bacillus-Based Biocontrol: Practical Applications
for Sustainable Agriculture ..............................................................161
Shweta Singh, Lav Sharma, Rupesh Kumar Singh,
Vishnu D. Rajput, Krishan K. Verma, Svetlana Sushkova,
and Tatiana Minkina
Chapter 8 Recognizing Insight Interaction, Adaptation and Potentialities
of Phyllosphere Microbiome under Various Distress towards
Sustainable Plant Growth .................................................................177
Rakesh Yonzone, M. Soniya Devi, and Pulak Bhaumik
Chapter 9 Importance of Biofertilizers in Turmeric (Curcuma longa):
Prospects and Challenges .................................................................209
Bandi Arpitha Shankar and Prashant Kaushik
Chapter 10 Role of Soil Organisms in Maintaining Soil Health ........................225
Thounaojam Thomas Meetei, Yumnam Bijilaxmi Devi,
and Thorny Chanu Thounaojam
Chapter 11 Recent Advances in Potentiality of Microorganisms in
Promoting Plant Growth and Managing Degraded Land ................245
Yumnam Bijilaxmi Devi and Thounaojam Thomas Meetei
Chapter 12 Productivity Losses through Bio-Deterioration
in Water-Deficit Harvested Sugarcane .............................................261
Varucha Misra, A.K. Mall, and Santeshwari
Chapter 13 Bio-Inoculants: The Potential Microorganisms for Restoration
of Degraded Soil...............................................................................273
Shubha Trivedi, Sonika Pandey, Mukesh Srivastava,
and Sanat Kumar Dwibedi
Index ......................................................................................................................289
Foreword
The growing human population in the world is expected
to create an alarming situation in the future regarding
food security. Due to disproportionate application of
chemical fertilizers and pesticides, agriculture is facing
severe provocation like deterioration of land, reduced pro-
ductivity and increased susceptibility to several biotic and
abiotic stresses. Salinity and drought stress are major abi-
otic stresses that limit sustainable agriculture production.
Nature has bestowed upon us the gift of soil microflora
that has the potential to cope with these stresses by improving the nutrient uptake,
antioxidant system and phytohormone regulation in plants. These microorganisms
and their biosynthetic activities under different environmental conditions make them
suitable candidates for application in agriculture and other allied fields. Since soil
biodiversity is an essential driver of ecosystem functions, these microorganisms tend
to improve the soil-plant health, thus playing a pivotal role in agriculture. Beneficial
microorganisms and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi help in ecological restoration and
sustainable agriculture through nitrogen fixation, siderophore production, mineral
solubilization, bioremediation of metal(loid)s and salts, and so on.
The importance of beneficial microorganisms in soil-plant health development
under degraded lands has created a great interest in sustainable agriculture. The
present book, Microbial Based Land Restoration Handbook: Soil and Plant Health
Development, describes such promising and potential tools to enhance plant perfor-
mance with microbial intervention. This book covers how plant growth is influenced
under various soil abiotic stresses by the application of beneficial soil microorgan-
isms and their responses in plants through physiological, biochemical, and molecular
approaches to mitigate the stresses.
I congratulate the editors Dr. Vimal Chandra Pandey and Dr. Umesh Pankaj
for bringing out this valuable book published by a renowned publisher CRC Press/
Taylor & Francis. This book consists of 13 chapters covering various aspects of
soil-plant health development. I am sure that this book will be a notable asset for
researchers, teachers, scientists, practitioners, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and
other stakeholders alike.
Prof. G.D. Sharma
Vice-Chancellor, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, India
Founder Vice-Chancellor, Bilaspur University, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India
Former Vice-Chancellor, Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland, India
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