Current Trends in Microbial Biotechnology for Agricultural Sustainability: Conclusion and Future Challenges
Microbial biotechnology is an emerging field with greater applications in diverse sectors involving food security, human nutrition, plant protection, and overall basic research in the agricultural sciences. The environment has been sustaining the burden o
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Abd El-Latif Hesham, Tanvir Kaur, Rubee Devi, Divjot Kour, Shiv Prasad, Neelam Yadav, Chhatarpal Singh, Joginder Singh, and Ajar Nath Yadav
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Microbial biotechnology is an emerging field with greater applications in diverse sectors involving food security, human nutrition, plant protection, and overall basic research in the agricultural sciences. The environment has been sustaining the burden of mankind since decades and indiscriminate use of the resources has led to the degradation of the environment, loss of soil fertility, and has created a need for sustainable strategies. The major focus in the coming decades would be on a green and clean environment by utilizing the plant-associated beneficial
A. E.-L. Hesham (*) Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] T. Kaur · R. Devi · D. Kour · A. N. Yadav Department of Biotechnology, Dr. Khem Singh Gill Akal College of Agriculture, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India S. Prasad Centre for Environment Science & Climate Resilient Agriculture, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India N. Yadav Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India C. Singh School for Environmental Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India J. Singh Department of Microbiology, Climate Mitigation and Sustainable Agriculture Research lab (CMaSAR), Division of Research and Development, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021 A. N. Yadav et al. (eds.), Current Trends in Microbial Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture, Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6949-4_22
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microbial communities. These beneficial microbial communities represent a novel and promising solution for a sustainable environment. Microbial communities possess a huge sink of mechanisms by which they act as biofertilizers, bioprotectants, and biostimulants as well as the alleviators of abiotic stress conditions. Thus, utilizing plant-associated microbiomes will surely support sustainable agriculture thereby reducing the production costs and environmental pollution. The present chapter exclusively concluded the horizon covered book content of microbial biotechnology for sustainable agriculture. Keywords
Beneficial microbiomes · Microbial biotechnology · Plant growth promotion · Soil fertility · Sustainable agriculture This book contains current knowledge about beneficial microbes including soil and plant microbiomes, recent microbial technologies, and potential applications of microbes for agro-environmental sustainability. The agriculturally and environmentally important microbiomes are the key components of soil–plant systems, where they are engaged in an intense network of diverse interactions. Soil and plant microbiomes (rhizospheric, endophytic, and epiphytic) with plant growt
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