Plant Biotic Interactions : State of the Art

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This book highlights recent advances in the field of plant-biotic interactions and explores current serious issues in the crop production industry. It is intended to attract more attention to these important, but often overlooked areas, and to stimulate new ideas for future research. Plants are constantly under attack by pathogens, pests, and parasites, which can significantly impact worldwide food production and human health. While pathogens and pests attack and interconnect with their hosts in a variety of ways, plants have developed sophisticated immune systems to fight infections. In the field of plant-biotic interactions, most of the studies to date have focused on the function and signaling pathways of plant disease resistance proteins and pattern recognition receptors, as well as pathogen effector proteins. In contrast, this book presents new and emerging research areas, and introduces students, researchers, academics, and policy advisors to the latest trends in e.g. microbial technology, environmental microbiology, agricultural science, the health sciences, biological sciences and other related disciplines. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Endophytic Microorganisms as Biological Control Agents for Plant Pathogens: A Panacea for Sustainable Agriculture (Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Deepak Kumar, Meenakshi Raina, Olawale Arogundade, Neera Bhalla Sarin)....Pages 1-20 Plant–Phytophthora Interaction Proteomics (M. Anandaraj, P. Umadevi)....Pages 21-29 Impact of Climate Change on Soil Microbial Community (Srikanth Mekala, Srilatha Polepongu)....Pages 31-41 Industrial Effluents: Impact on Agricultural Soils and Microbial Diversity (Sujata Mani, Pankaj Chowdhary, Vishvas Hare)....Pages 43-60 Plant Metabolites Involved in Plant–Pathogen Interactions (Daraksha Parween, Binod Bihari Sahu, Maya Kumari, Ramesh N. Pudake)....Pages 61-84 Management of Root-Knot Nematode in Different Crops Using Microorganisms (Aastha Singh, Pankaj Sharma, Anju Kumari, Rakesh Kumar, D. V. Pathak)....Pages 85-99 Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterial Life at High Salt Concentrations: Genetic Variability (Ritika Kapoor, S. S. Kanwar)....Pages 101-111 Rhizosphere: A Home for Human Pathogens (Richa Sharma, V. S. Bisaria, Shilpi Sharma)....Pages 113-127 Effect of Organic Farming on Structural and Functional Diversity of Soil Microbiome: Benefits and Risks (Vijay Laxmi Shrivas, Upma Singh, L. Weisskopf, P. Hariprasad, Shilpi Sharma)....Pages 129-146 Plants for Biocontrol and Biological Control of Plant Pathogens (Prachi Saxena, Jyoti Srivastava, Shrishti Pandey, Shreya Srivastava, Neha Maurya, Niharika Chand Kaushik et al.)....Pages 147-179 Entomopathogenic Nematodes in the Biological Control of Insect Pests with Reference to Insect Immunity ( Istkhar, Ashok Kumar Chaubey, Amar Prakash Garg)....Pages 181-209 Interaction Between Aromatic Oil Components and Bacterial Targets (Smaranika Pattnaik, Niranjan Behera)....Pages 211-226 Enhancement of Active Constituents of Medicinal Plants Through the Use of Microbes (Charu Gupta, Dhan Prakash)....Pages 227-241 Effect of Agnihotra Ash on Drug-Resistant Escherichia coli in Water (Reshma Tuladhar, Bijaya Laxmi Maharjan, Supriya Sharma, Anjana Singh, Ulrich Berk)....Pages 243-251 Plant Microbe Interface: The Plant Antimicrobial Peptides (S. Manivannan, P. Umadevi)....Pages 253-261 Microbe-Mediated Abiotic Stress Alleviation: Molecular and Biochemical Basis (Pandiyan Kuppusamy, Samadhan Yuvraj Bagul, Sudipta Das, Hillol Chakdar)....Pages 263-281 Microbial Diversity in Soil: Biological Tools for Abiotic Stress Management in Plants (Neera Garg, Kiran Saroy, Amandeep Cheema, Aditi Bisht)....Pages 283-321