Salt Stress, Microbes, and Plant Interactions: Causes and Solution: Volume 1

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This book offers an overview of salt stress, which has a devastating effect on the yields of various agricultural crops around the globe. Excessive salts in soil reduce the availability of water, inhibit metabolic processes, and affect nutrient composition, osmotic balance, and hydraulic conductivity. Plants have developed a number of tolerance mechanisms, such as various compatible solutes, polyamines, reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defense mechanisms, ion transport and compartmentalization of injurious ions. The exploitation of genetic variation, use of plant hormones, mineral nutrients, soil microbe interactions, and other mechanical practices are of prime importance in agriculture, and as such have been the subject of multidisciplinary research. Covering both theoretical and practical aspects, the book provides essential physiological, ecological, biochemical, environmental and molecular information as well as perspectives for future research. It is a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers and anyone interested in agronomy, ecology, stress physiology, environmental science, crop science and molecular biology. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Global Concern for Salinity on Various Agro-Ecosystems (Ghulam Mustafa, Mohd Sayeed Akhtar, Rabia Abdullah)....Pages 1-19 Potentiality of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in Easing of Soil Salinity and Environmental Sustainability (Faryad Khan, Khan Bilal Mukhtar Ahmed, Mohammad Shariq, Mansoor Ahmad Siddiqui)....Pages 21-58 Use of Plant Hormones for the Improvement of Plant Growth and Production Under Salt Stress (Rabia Amir, Faiza Munir, Maryam Khan, Tooba Iqbal)....Pages 59-90 Plant Growth Regulators and Salt Stress: Mechanism of Tolerance Trade-Off (Qazi Fariduddin, Abbu Zaid, Firoz Mohammad)....Pages 91-111 Impact of Plant-Microbe Interactions on Plant Metabolism Under Saline Environment (Praveen Kumar Gupta, Yuvashankar K.J, Saketh Vishnu B.O, Arvind Reddy Kandi, Anwesha Sinha, Vidhyavathy Nagarajan et al.)....Pages 113-127 Plant Survival and Tolerance Under High Salinity: Primary and Secondary Cell Wall-Sensing Mechanism (Amrina Shafi, Insha Zahoor)....Pages 129-146 Field Application of Rhizobial Inoculants in Enhancing Faba Bean Production in Acidic Soils: An Innovative Strategy to Improve Crop Productivity (Alemayehu Getahun, Diriba Muleta, Fassil Assefa, Solomon Kiros)....Pages 147-180 Heavy Metal Stress and Tolerance in Plants Mediated by Rhizospheric Microbes (Mallappa Kumara Swamy, Narasimhaswamy Nalina, Dasappa Nalina, Mohd Sayeed Akhtar, Boregowda Purushotham)....Pages 181-198 Use of Nanoparticles in Alleviating Salt Stress (Irfan Ahmad, Mohd Sayeed Akhtar)....Pages 199-215 Soil-Plant and Microbial Interaction in Improving Salt Stress (Hera Nadeem, Faheem Ahmad)....Pages 217-235 Plants Growing Under Salinity Stress Can Be Eased Through Mycorrhizal Association (Pratibha Parihar, Madhumati Bora)....Pages 237-248 Halophilic Microbe Interactions with Plants to Mitigate Salt Stress (Sanjay Arora, Divya Sahni)....Pages 249-272 Effect of Salinity on Soil Nutrients and Plant Health (Ankita Bidalia, Krati Vikram, Gupta Yamal, K. S. Rao)....Pages 273-297