Table Of ContentSustainable Agriculture Reviews 60
Nirbhay K. Singh
Anirudha Chattopadhyay
Eric Lichtfouse Editors
Sustainable
Agriculture
Reviews 60
Microbial Processes in Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Volume 60
Series Editor
Eric Lichtfouse , State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering,
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
Advisory Editors
Shivendu Ranjan, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University,
Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Nandita Dasgupta, Nano-food Research Group, School of Bio Sciences
and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and
energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture
is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food
and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil
erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion.
Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated
knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology,
chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable
agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level
to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to
centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying
components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and
social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow
science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that
treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources.
Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-
developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This
book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and
knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists,
decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe
agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.
Nirbhay K. Singh • Anirudha Chattopadhyay
Eric Lichtfouse
Editors
Sustainable Agriculture
Reviews 60
Microbial Processes in Agriculture
Editors
Nirbhay K. Singh Anirudha Chattopadhyay
Microbiology Coll. of Agr., Dep. of Plant Pathology
Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada
Agricultural University Agricultural University
Sardarkrushinagar, India Sardarkrushinagar, India
Eric Lichtfouse
State Key Laboratory of Multiphase
Flow in Power Engineering
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an, China
ISSN 2210-4410 ISSN 2210-4429 (electronic)
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
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Preface
Climate change, pesticide pollution, and the need to produce more food in a safe
way is calling for advanced methods to manage crops in a sustainable manner, for
instance by improving the association of plants with microorganisms. Microbial
communities are extremely diverse, interdependent and multi-functional, and are
essential in regulating key processes for ecosystem functioning, yet knowledge on
soil microbial communities and their interactions with plants is limited. Indeed,
microbial communities control ecological processes such as N-fixation, nutrient
acquisition, agro-waste management, biodegradation, carbon sequestration, land
reclamation, bioremediation, plant growth promotion, pathogen suppression,
induced systemic resistance, tolerance against stresses and soil stability (Fig. 1).
This book entitled Microbial Processes in Agriculture reviews the microbial pro-
cesses that modify positively agroecosystems, from microbial evolution to micro-
bial applications. Advances in genomics have uncovered the evolutionary path of
Polysaccharides
Fungi
Bacteria
Mycelium
Aggregation of soil particles
Forces the soil particles
together
Polysaccharides
Soil Particle
Fig. 1 Positive effect of polysaccharides from bacteria and fungi on soil stability. (From Chap. 2)
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microbes, and have unravelled the biogeochemical processes ruling the interactions
of plant and microbes. Chapters focus on nutrient cycling, microbial decomposition
of agricultural waste and bioremediation of metal contaminants in soils. The bene-
fits of plant-microbe association for the suppression of plant pathogens by induced
defence mechanisms are discussed.
Sardarkrushinagar, India Nirbhay K. Singh
Sardarkrushinagar, India Anirudha Chattopadhyay
Xi’an, China Eric Lichtfouse
Brief Synopsis of the Book
In the context of rising adverse effects of climate change on agriculture, there is a
need for advanced methods and practices to manage soils for production of food and
energy. This book presents the latest knowledge about microbial processes that con-
trol plant growth, with focus on genomic tools, microbial interactions with the plant
and soils habitats, mobilization of plant nutrients, agricultural waste management,
biodegradation, bioremediation, carbon sequestration, land reclamation, plant
growth promotion, suppression of plant pathogens, induced systemic resistance and
tolerance against biotic and abiotic stresses.
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Contents
1 The Perpetual Battle of Bacteria and Phages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Kul Bhushan and Sameer S. Bhagyawant
2 Orchestration of the Plant Microbiome
for Enhanced Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Shubha Rani Sharma and Rajani Sharma
3 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria to Mitigate
Biotic and Abiotic Stress in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Shikha Gupta and Sangeeta Pandey
4 Ecology and Mechanisms of Plant Growth
Promoting Rhizobacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Amit Verma, Shulbhi Verma, Mahender Singh, Harish Mudila,
and Jitendra Kumar Saini
5 Diversity and Evolution of Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Pankaj Sharma, Seema Sangwan, Harpreet Kaur, Anupam Patra,
Anamika, and Sahil Mehta
6 Encapsulation of Biofertilizers, Biopesticides
and Biocontrol Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Geeta Singh and Ishani Paithankar
7 Induced Systematic Resistance and Plant Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Deepshikha Satish and Sahil Mehta
8 Microbial Elicitors for Priming Plant Defense Mechanisms. . . . . . . . 175
Anamika, Anupam Patra, Sadaf Shehzad, Anju Rani, Pankaj
Sharma, K. F. Mohammad, and Sahil Mehta
9 Microbial Mitigation of Abiotic Stress in Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
A. D. Asha, N. Nivetha, A. K. Lavanya, K. V. Vikram, A. S. Dukare,
Bandeppa, B. S. Manjunatha, and S. Paul
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10 Microbial Alleviation of Abiotic and Biotic Stresses in Rice . . . . . . . . 243
Upendra Kumar, Megha Kaviraj, Swastika Kundu, Snehasini Rout,
Himani Priya, and A. K. Nayak
11 Nutritional Biofortification of Crops by Microbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Karishma Kumari, Anupam Patra, Kuleshwar Prasad Sahu,
Rahul Dilawari, and Sahil Mehta
12 Microbial Rejuvenation of Soils for Sustainable Agriculture . . . . . . . 293
Pankaj Sharma, Anupam Patra, Baljinder Singh, and Sahil Mehta
13 Microbial Remediation of Agricultural Residues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Pankaj Sharma, Seema Sangwan, Harpreet Kaur, Anupam Patra,
and Sahil Mehta
14 The Biotechnological Story of Microbial Genes
from Soil to Transgenic Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Karishma Kumari, Anupam Patra, Satyakam Guha, Tushar Goyal,
Mukesh Kumar, and Sahil Mehta
15 Microbial Biosurfactants for Green Agricultural Technology . . . . . . 389
Priya Patel, Rushika Patel, Anwesha Mukherjee,
and Nasreen S. Munshi
16 Role of Microbes in the Synthesis of Industrial Products
from Lignocellulosic Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Balwinder Singh Sooch and Yogita Lugani
