Field Crops: Sustainable Management by PGPR

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This book discusses the most challenging task ahead of researchers from India and around the globe: providing disease-free field crops for the ever-growing world population. In Asia, despite being cultivated in massive volumes, major crops, including cereals, oil seed, tuber and non-tuber vegetables, and fruit, are not meeting the demands of the increasing population. This book showcases naturally occurring beneficial microbes in the form of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, or PGPR, which make it possible to grow field crops without applying synthetic chemicals. Our understanding of PGPR has increased exponentially in recent decades. They play a multifarious role in developing sustainable systems of crop production and protection. The book focuses on the mechanistic behaviors of PGPRs, their use to develop sustainable cultivation techniques, and their application to enhance crop growth and productivity at the cutting edge of tech-oriented agriculture and to replace hazardous chemicals with microbial inoculants. The book is useful to agronomists, microbiologists, ecologists, plant pathologists, molecular biologists, environmentalists, policy makers, conservationists, and NGOs working on organically grown field crops. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) as Protagonists of Ever-Sustained Agriculture: An Introduction (Dinesh Kumar Maheshwari, Meenu Saraf, Shrivardhan Dheeman)....Pages 1-10 Bacterial Mixtures, the Future Generation of Inoculants for Sustainable Crop Production (Yolanda Elizabeth Morales-García, Antonino Baez, Verónica Quintero-Hernández, Dalia Molina-Romero, América Paulina Rivera-Urbalejo, Laura Abisaí Pazos-Rojas et al.)....Pages 11-44 Does PGPR and Mycorrhizae Enhance Nutrient Use Efficiency and Efficacy in Relation to Crop Productivity? (Mahipal Choudhary, Vijay Singh Meena, Ram Prakash Yadav, Manoj Parihar, Arunav Pattanayak, S. C. Panday et al.)....Pages 45-68 In Sustainable Agriculture: Assessment of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in Cucurbitaceous Vegetable Crops (Musa Seymen, Ertan Sait Kurtar, Atilla Dursun, Önder Türkmen)....Pages 69-103 Harnessing Beneficial Bacillus in Productivity Improvement of Food Security Crops of Himalayan Agro-Climatic Zones (Shrivardhan Dheeman, Dinesh Kumar Maheshwari, Ramesh Chand Dubey, Sandeep Kumar, Nitin Baliyan, Sandhya Dhiman)....Pages 105-143 Utilization of Endophytic Bacteria Isolated from Legume Root Nodules for Plant Growth Promotion (Winston Franz Ríos-Ruiz, Renzo Alfredo Valdez-Nuñez, Eulogio J. Bedmar, Antonio Castellano-Hinojosa)....Pages 145-176 Plant–Microbes Relationships in Soil Ecological System and Benefits Accruable to Food Health (Lateef Bamidele Taiwo, Adedayo Omowumi Oyedele, Bukola Victoria Ailenokhuoria, Oladapo Titus Okareh)....Pages 177-190 The Role of Rhizobacterial Volatile Organic Compounds in a Second Green Revolution—The Story so Far (Darren Heenan-Daly, Siva L. S. Velivelli, Barbara Doyle Prestwich)....Pages 191-220 Potential of PGPR in Improvement of Environmental-Friendly Vegetable Production (Haluk Caglar Kaymak)....Pages 221-251 Problem of Mercury Toxicity in Crop Plants: Can Plant Growth Promoting Microbes (PGPM) Be an Effective Solution? (Swapnil Sapre, Reena Deshmukh, Iti Gontia-Mishra, Sharad Tiwari)....Pages 253-278 Regulatory Role of Rhizobacteria to Induce Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance in Plants (Humaira Yasmin, Asia Nosheen, Rabia Naz, Rumana Keyani, Seemab Anjum)....Pages 279-335 Growth and Yield of Field Crops Grown Under Drought Stress Condition Is Influenced by the Application of PGPR (Naeem Khan, Asghari Bano)....Pages 337-349 Plant Growth Promotion and Suppression of Fungal Pathogens in Rice (Oryza Sativa L.) by Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria (Hassan Etesami)....Pages 351-383 Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria-Induced Defense Against Insect Herbivores (Joseph Disi, Jocelyn Simmons, Simon Zebelo)....Pages 385-410 Potential Effect of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) on Enhancing Protection Against Viral Diseases (Ahmed R. Sofy, Mahmoud R. Sofy, Ahmed A. Hmed, Noha K. El-Dougdoug)....Pages 411-445 Conclusion (Piyush Pandey)....Pages 447-449 Back Matter ....Pages 451-458