Agro-Environmental Sustainability

Dr. Jay Shankar Singh is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Microbiology at BB Ambedkar (Central University) in Lucknow, India.Dr. Gamini Seneviratne is a research professor at the National Institute of Fundamental Studies in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

• Microbial Signaling in Plant-Microbe Interactions and Its Role on Sustainability of Agroecosystems.- Exploiting Beneficial Traits of Plant Associated Fluorescent Pseudomonads for Plant Health.- N2-fixing Cyanobacterial Systems as Biofertilizer.- Exploring the Role of Secondary Metabolites of Trichoderma in Tripartite Interaction with Plant and Pathogens.- Managing the Soil Fertility through Microbes: Prospects, Challenges and Future strategies.- Trichoderma: A Potent Fungus as Biological Control Agent.- Bioprospecting of Genes from Microbes for Stress Management in Agricultural Crops.- Improving Soil Fertility and Soil Functioning in Cover Cropped Agro-ecosystems with Symbiotic Microbes.- Actinobacteria in Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability.- Atmospheric Carbon Sequestration through Microalgae: Status, Prospects and Challenges.- BioGro – a Plant Growth-Promoting Bio-Fertiliser Validated by 15 Years’ Research from Laboratory Selection to Rice Farmer’s Fields of the Mekong Delta.- Priming Host Defence Against Biotic Stress by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi.- Role of Phosphate Solubilising Microorganism in Sustainable Agriculture Development.

“This volume offers a lot of rational approaches that may help to improve and develop agricultural sustainability. This book is useful to students, teachers, and researchers in the disciplines of agricultural microbiology, biochemistry and biotechnology.” (Siddharth Boudh, Pankaj Chowdhary and Vishvas Hare, Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 78, 2019)