
New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology
Description
Key Features
- Introduces the principles of microbial biotechnology and its application in crop improvement
- Lists various new developments in enhancing plant productivity and efficiency
- Explains the mechanisms of plant/microbial interactions and the beneficial use of these interactions in crop improvement
- Explores various bacteria classes and their beneficial effects in plant growth and efficiency
Readership
Table of Contents
1. The Use of Microorganisms for Gene Transfer and Crop Improvement
2. Actinomycetes as potential plant growth promoting microbial communities
3. Microbial genes in crop improvement
4. Microbial transformations implicit with soil and crop productivity in rice system
5. Application of Microbial Biotechnology in Food Processing
6. Innate immunity engaged or disengaged in plant-microbe interactions
7. Novel Strategies for Engineering Resistance to Plant Viral Diseases
8. Molecular characterization of sugarcane viruses and their diagnostics
9. Cyanobacterial Biodiversity and Biotechnology: A Promising Approach for Crop Improvement
10. Pseudomonas flourescens - A Potential Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and biocontrol agent
11. Crop Improvement Through Microbial Technology: a Step Towards Sustainable Agriculture
12. Microbial technologies for sustainable crop production
13. Trichoderma, its multifarious utility in crop improvement
14. Microbe-mediated enhancement of nitrogen and phosphorus content for crop improvement
15. Microbiome in Crops: Diversity, distribution and potential role in crops improvements
16. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): Perspective in Agriculture under Biotic and Abiotic stress
17. Rhizosphere metabolite profiling: An opportunity to understand plant–microbe interactions for crop improvement
18. Phosphate-solubilizing Pseudomonads for improving crop plant nutrition and agricultural productivity
19. Targeted Genome editing for crop improvement in post genome sequencing era
20. Endophytic Microorganisms: Their Role in Plant Growth and Crop Improvement
21. Microbes in crop improvement: future challenges and perspective
22. Plant-microbe interaction and genome sequencing: an evolutionary insight
23. Crop breeding using CRISPR/Cas9
Product details
- No. of pages: 496
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: February 20, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780444639882
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444639875
About the Editors
Ram Prasad

Affiliations and Expertise
Sarvajeet Singh Gill
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Narendra Tuteja
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