Microbial-mediated Induced Systemic Resistance in Plants
With a focus on food safety, this book highlights the importance of microbes in sustainable agriculture. Plants, sessile organisms that are considered as primary producers in the ecosystem and communicate with above- and belo
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robial-mediated Induced Systemic Resistance in Plants
Microbial-mediated Induced Systemic Resistance in Plants
Devendra K. Choudhary • Ajit Varma Editors
Microbial-mediated Induced Systemic Resistance in Plants
Editors Devendra K. Choudhary Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (AIMT) Amity University Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Ajit Varma Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (AIMT) Amity University Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
ISBN 978-981-10-0387-5 ISBN 978-981-10-0388-2 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0388-2
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Preface
One major challenge for the twenty-first century will be the production of sufficient food – the United Nations Population Fund estimates that the global human population may well reach 10 billion by 2050 (www.unfpa.org). This means increasing agricultural productivity of food crops, as plants form the basis of every food chain. If global food production is to keep pace with an increasingly urbanized and growing population while formulating new food production strategies for developing countries, the great challenge for modern societies is to boost plant productivity in an environmentally sustainable manner. Habitat-imposed abiotic and biotic stress is a serious condition causing major problem for crop productivity. About 20 % of cultivable and at least half of irrigated lands around the world are severely affected by environmental stresses. However, in these conditions, there are plant populations successfully adapted and evolutionarily different in their strategy of stress tolerance. Vascular plants do not function as autonomous individuals, but house diverse communities of associated microbes. The role of these microbes can no longer be ignored.
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