Fruit Microbiome: Emerging Aspects in Postharvest Disease Management(Plant and Soil Microbiome)

Fruit Microbiome: Emerging aspects in postharvest disease management

Table of Contents:
1. An introduction of fruit microbiome and its application in postharvest management 2. Current scenario of food security and plant disease management 3. Microbiome engineering: Application in plant disease management 4. Plant disease management of fresh produce through microbiome modulation 5. Synthetic microbial consortia and their application in postharvest management of fruit 6. Latest omics and approaches to fruit microbiome and their application as biocontrol agent 7. Prebiotics application for postharvest management of fruits 8. Edible coating on the fresh produce to protect from pathogen invasion 9. Endophytic microorganism as a source of bioactive compounds. 10. Endophytic microbiome of fruits and their application in plant disease management 11. Beneficial Yeast: Tiny warriors of the fresh produce 12. Beneficial macro fungi application the post-harvest management of fruits 13. Biocontrol Activity and Plant Growth Promotion Exerted by Aureobasidium pullulans Strains 14. Survey of apple microbiome: Their diseases and management aspect 15. Survey of citrus microbiome: Their diseases and management aspect 16. Microbial intervention a novel approach in post-harvest management of fruit 17. Engineered nanoparticles application in phytopathogen management of fresh produce

About the Author :
Ajay Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India. He previously served as a Visiting Scientist at the Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel (2018–2022), and completed his doctoral research at the Department of Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, focusing on plant–microbe interactions. Dr. Kumar’s research expertise spans plant–microbe interactions, microbial biocontrol, postharvest fruit disease management, microbial endophytes of medicinal plants, and cyanobacteria–pesticide interactions. He is a prolific author in leading international journals and is also actively engaged in academic editing with major publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, and Wiley. Dr. Kumar currently serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology and BMC Microbiology, a Guest Editor for Microorganisms and Plants (MDPI), and a Series Editor for Plant and Soil Microbiome (Elsevier). Sergio de los Santos-Villalobos is the director of the Microbial Resource Biotechnology Laboratory at Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Mexico, where his research spans microbial ecology, plant–microorganism–soil interactions, microbial inoculant production, and agro-ecosystem conservation using isotopic techniques. His work integrates ecological, physiological, biochemical, and genetic approaches, from in vitro studies to field-level application. He has organized and taught numerous workshops, served as President of international scientific congresses, and spoken as a plenary speaker at conferences worldwide. His contributions have been recognized by Mexico's National System of Researchers (Level 2), a special mention in the 2013 AgroBio Award, and the 2014 Tecnos Award for contributions to biotechnology. He serves on expert panels focused on soil conservation and microbial inoculant development and currently acts as Associate Editor for several journals in the field. Manoj Kumar Solanki is currently employed as a scientist in the Institute of Biology, Biotechnology, and Environment Protection of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. In 2006, he received his master’s degree in microbiology from Barkatullah University, and in 2013, he received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Rani Durgawati University in India. He also served as a research associate in a DBTfunded project at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India. He received a visiting scientist fellowship from the Guangxi Academy of Agriculture Sciences in China from 2013 to 2015, as well as a visiting scientist fellowship from the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization in Israel from 2016 to 2020. He has been involved in numerous research activities on plants-microbes interaction, soil microbiology, plant disease management, enzymology, and microbial genome analysis during his research career, and has published a number of publications in prestigious peer-reviewed international journals and books. He is also expanding his knowledge of agriculturally significant microorganisms, with a focus on soil and crop health management, among other things as well as worked as associate/guest editor for various journals and has sound expertise in editing books and reviewing articles.