About the Book
This book explains microbial roles for agricultural sustainability especially under climatic changes including role of microorganisms in sustainable agriculture. Major coverage entails role of microbial enzymatic roles in agriculture, microbial phytohormones as promising plant sustainable bioagents, phosphate, potassium and calcium solubilizing microbes as alternative bio-fertilizers. It introduces microbial solutions to mitigate the biotic and abiotic stress, with high attention to temperature rising, and water limitation due to the climatic changes.
Present a summarized insight into important roles of microbes in facing the climatic changes
Describes Plant-Microbes interaction in sustainability
Highlights roles of microorganisms in limited agriculture water sources
Provide an insight into Microbial phytohormones as promising plant-sustainable bioagent
Comprehensive overviews of Microbial bioremediation roles for soil reclamation
This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in microbiology, agriculture and sustainability.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Contributors
About the Editors
Chapter 1
Role of micro-organisms and biofertilizers in improving water productivity for sustainable agriculture
Mohamed Hefzy, Reda K. Darwesh, Alaa Z. El-Bably, Sayed A. Abd El Hafez, Ghada Abd-Elmonsef Mahmoud
Chapter 2
Plant growth promoter mechanisms under biotic and abiotic stresses and nutrient uptake
Aya A.M. Abdellatif, Ibrahim M.K. Elmaghraby, Maissara M.K. Elmaghraby, Mostafa A.S.
Abdelgalil, Hassan H.A. Mostafa
Chapter 3
Microbiome Engineering: A Pathway to Sustainable Agricultural Productivity
Mona Shaban E. M. Badawy, Lamiaa Ibrahim Ahmed, Omnia Karem M. Riad
Chapter 4
Advancing agricultural productivity: integrating multi-omics approaches
Hanaa Metwally Barakat
Chapter 5
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated modifications in sustainable agriculture
Mahesh Pattabhiramaiah, Shanthala Mallikarjunaiah, Manjunatha Reddy G. R
Chapter 6
Mitigation of plant abiotic stress via microbial applications
Ghada Abd-Elmonsef Mahmoud, Mohamed A. Abdel-Sater, Nemmat A. Hussein, Eshraq A. AL-Amery
Chapter 7
Plant-Microbe Abetted Mitigation of Hazardous Pollutants: Towards a Green and Clean Agroecosystem
Charu Sharma, Vishal Rajput, Nisha Dhillon, Vijay Kumar, Usha Rani, Ashutosh Kumar Chaudhary, Bindu Naik, Vivek Kumar
Chapter 8
Phytoremediation of Polluted Soil and Waters
Arezoo Dadrasnia, Rosazlin Abdullah
Chapter 9
Agricultural Bioinputs in Soil Bioremediation and Enhancing Phytoremediation
Yanca Araujo Frias, Victor Hugo Cruz, Bruno Rafael de Almeida Moreira, Thalia Silva Valério, Paulo Henrique Frata Ferreira, Matheus Mantuanelli Roberto, Paulo Renato Matos Lopes
Chapter 10
Agricultural Land Pollution in Indonesia: Land Restoration and Reclamation Strategies
Qomarudin Helmy, Pujawati Suryatmana
Chapter 11
Soil Carbon Sequestration and its Role in Agriculture
Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Nano Alemu Daba, Md Ashraful Alam, Kiya Adare Tadesse, Imtiaz Ahmed, Jobira Defera Gonfa
Chapter 12
Role of nanoparticles and nano-based approaches for sustainable agriculture
Soma A. El Mogy, Neama A. Shalaby
Chapter 13
Wastewater Re-using in Irrigation for Agricultural Sustainability and Electricity Production
Lamiaa Ibrahim Ahmed, Hanan S Khalaf, Ghada Abd-Elmonsef Mahmoud
About the Author :
Ghada Abd-Elmonsef Mahmoud is an associate professor of applied microbiology in the Botany & Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University. She got her M.Sc in microbiology entitled “Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons by Fungi” in 2013. She got her PhD in microbiology entitled “Isolation and Characterization of Microorganisms Producing Vitamins” in 2016. Her main research interest; plant growth promoting microorganisms, isolation and identification of different microorganisms, taxonomic ranking of bioactive materials-producing microorganisms, enhancement of metabolic production efficiency of microorganisms, biodegradation of the environmental pollutants, functional impact of genetically modified microorganisms, molecular biology and metabolic profiling of pathogenic microorganisms, biosynthesis of nanoparticles from microorganisms and their use as novel active antifungal agents.
Bikash Kumar is currently working as a National Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, He received his BSc (Hons-2012) and MSc (Distinction-2014) in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur (A Central University) and Pondicherry Central University, respectively. Later, in 2014, he worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Microbiology, Central University of Rajasthan, India. In 2015, he enrolled for PhD and started his research at the Bioprocess and Bioenergy Laboratory under the research supervision of Prof Pradeep Verma from the Department of Microbiology, Central University of Rajasthan, India. Post PhD, he worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. His work is focused on the development of biomass pretreatment technologies and microbial enzyme production (cellulases, laccase, xylanases) for greener energy and environment.
