Microbial Inoculants: Soil Dynamics and Nutrient Bioavailability presents foundational and recent information on the use of these multi-purpose living microorganisms that can act as biostimulants or biocontrol agents.
Isolated from soil, plants, water and other organic materials, microbial inoculants include fungi, bacteria and microalgae among others. As an alternative to synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, microbial inoculants are increasingly important to the conservation of soil while enabling improved plant health and crop yield.
Microbial Inoculants, a volume in the Plant and Soil Microbiome series, presents the range of potential applications in both agricultural and environmental practice through the nexus of plant and soil.
Table of Contents
1. Microbial inoculants: Recent advances and applications2. Smart technological involvement in agricultural field
3. Microbial inoculants as crop-yield enhancers
4. In vitro “biotization” of plant tissue cultures and application of microbial inoculants
5. Impact of microbial inoculants on the secondary metabolites production of medicinal plants
6. Microbial inoculant approaches in disease management
7. Bacterial /fungal inoculants: application as bio stimulants
8. Microbial inoculants and their potential application in bioremediation
9. Microbial inoculants: application in the management of metal stress
10. Effect of microbial inoculants on soil microorganisms and the nutrients
11. Seed priming with endophytic microbiome to enhance crop yield
12. Microbial inoculants for the management of pesticides toxicity in plants
13. Immobilization of microbial inoculants for improving soil nutrient bioavailability
14. Impact of microbial inoculants on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
15. Microbial inoculation of alfalfa and other forager legumes
16. The latest approach of microbial inoculants in the enhancement of Agricultural productivity
Authors
Ajay Kumar Visiting Scientist, Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani center, Rishon Leziyon, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development, Israel. Dr. Ajay Kumar is a visiting scientist at the Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani center, Rishon Leziyon, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development Israel. He has published extensively in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Microbial biocontrol, and Endophytes related with the medicinal plants, Postharvest management of fruits. Dr. Kumar also serves as an Associate editor in Frontier in Microbiology, and special guest editor in Microorganisms or Plants MDPI, Journal. Joginder Singh Panwar Professor, Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Nagaland, India. Prof. Joginder Singh is a Professor at the Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, India. Previously, he worked as a Professor in the School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University and also as a Young Scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Biofertilizer Laboratory, Department of Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University on a research project funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations, including the Association of Microbiologists of India, the Indian Society of Salinity Research Scientists, the Indian Society for Radiation Biology, and the European Federation of Biotechnology. He has published extensively with Elsevier and Springer both in journals and books. He serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals, including Current Research in Engineering, Science and Technology; Journal of Cleaner Production; Science of the Total Environment; Environmental Monitoring and Assessment; Pedosphere; Soil and Sediment Contamination; Symbiosis; International Journal of Phytoremediation; Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety; Annals of Agricultural Sciences; and Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Ana Maria Queijeiro L�pez Federal University of Alagoas, Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Macei�-AL, Brazil.Dr. Ana Maria Queijeiro L�pez became an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology (IQB) of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) after completing her master's degree in Biological Sciences (Applied Microbiology) and starting a doctorate in Phytopathology (Parasitism Biochemistry) at the Escola Superior de Agricultura of the University of S�o Paulo, receiving training at universities in Germany, Spain and England, the latter country where she completed her doctorate in Molecular Biochemistry and Phytopathology (University of Bristol, Long Ashton Research Station campus), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. John Alexander Lucas. She returned to IQB/UFAL in 1999, as Associate Professor, where she still works in teaching, extension and research activities, in areas of interface between microbial biochemistry and different areas of biotechnology, such as in the interaction with plants, animals, different ecosystems, food and pharmaceutical products.
Ravindra N Kharwar Professor, Centre of Advanced study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Prof. Ravindra Nath Kharwar, currently serving as a Professor in the Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has over 30 years of experience in teaching and research. He is fellows of Mycological Society of India, Indian Phytopathological Society, BOYSCAST, and the recipients of Dr. S. K. Shome Memorial Award in 2012, and Dr V. Agnihothrudu Memorial Award in 2016, and Dr. AK Sarbhoy Memorial Award in 2020, Prof. PC Jain Memorial Award in 2021, and Sir E.J. Butler Award 2021, respectively. Recently, he has been selected for INSA Teachers Award-2022.He is associated to various reputed journals in capacities of either editor-in-chief/editor or member of editorial board. He has worked with Prof. Gary Strobel, in the Department of Plant Sciences at Montana State University, Bozeman, USA as BOYSCAST fellow. He has been working on fungal and actinobacterial endophytes.
