
Functional Diversity of Mycorrhiza and Sustainable Agriculture
Management to Overcome Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
Description
Key Features
- Provides a new approach to exploiting the benefits of mycorrhizas for sustainable arable agricultural production using indigenous AMF populations and adopting appropriate crop production techniques
- Bridges the gap between soil microbiology, including increasing knowledge of mycorrhiza and agronomy
- Presents real-world practical insights and application-based results, including a chapter focused primarily on case studies
- Includes extensive illustrative diagrams and photographs
Readership
Land managers, consultants, policy makers and university students in agriculture, soil and environmental science, botany or horticulture looking to develop and foster sustainable plant production. Students can gain an understanding of the science underpinning the growth and development of indigenous mycorrhizas and biodiversity
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Agronomic opportunities to modify soil conditions considered supportive of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
3. The roles of mycorrhizas and current constraints to their intentional use in agriculture
4. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AFM) biodiversity
5. Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and other soil microbes in the rhizosphere and impacts on host plants
6. The significance of the intact extraradical mycelium (ERM) in managing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
7. New tools to investigate biological diversity
8. Management of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi biological diversity within crooping systems
Product details
- No. of pages: 254
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: May 19, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128042861
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128042441
About the Authors
Michael Goss
Affiliations and Expertise
Mário Carvalho
Affiliations and Expertise
Isabel Brito
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
There are currently no reviews for "Functional Diversity of Mycorrhiza and Sustainable Agriculture"