Microbial Mitigation of Stress Response of Food Legumes

Section I Crop Responses and Microbe-Mediated
Stress Management: Legumes
1. Simulation of the Daily Exchange of Carbon and Nitrogen between
Microorganisms, Plant and Symbionts of Intercropped Legume
with Cereal in Mediterranean Agro Ecosystem …………………………………………………………………. 3
Mourad Latati
2. Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses of Domesticated Vigna Legumes:
A Comprehensive Review …………………………………………………………………………………………………11
Difo Voukang Harouna
3. Ecosystem Services of the Crop Wild Relatives, in Particular, Food Legume
Landraces-Rhizobia Association in Northern Africa and the Adaptation
of Their Genetic Material to Agronomic and Environmental Objectives ………………………….. 25
Sihem Tellah, Wahiba Amri-Tiliouine, Fahima Nabi, Agostino Sorgona,
and Maurizio Badiani
4. Role of Leguminous Microbiome in Plant Growth Promotion and Plant Protection …………. 39
Prittesh Patel
5. Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria Modulate Biotic and Abiotic Stress
Tolerance in Legumes ………………………………………………………………………………………………………51
Muhammad Arslan Ashraf, Rizwan Rasheed, Muhammad Iqbal, Iqbal Hussain,
Abida Parveen, and Ali Akbar
6. Symbiosis with Fungal Endophytes Conferring Stress Tolerance in Legumes ………………….. 69
Chaitanya Ghalagi, D. J. Bagyaraj, and B. Mohan Raju
7. Multi-trait Trichoderma for Improving Plant Health of Grain Legumes ………………………….. 85
Sandeep Kumar, Sonika Pandey, Utkarsh Singh Rathore, and Krishna Kumar
8. Effects of Pesticides and Heavy Metals on the Growth and Yield of Food
Legume Plants ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 103
A. Sankaranarayanan, N. Amaresan, and Abhishek Sharma
Section II Crop Responses to Stress-Soybean
9. Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses of Hyacinth Bean (Lablab purpureus)
and Soybean (Glycine max): A Mini-review …………………………………………………………………….115
Difo Voukang Harouna and Elmugheira M. Ibrahim Mohammed
Section III Crop Responses and Microbe-Mediated
Stress Management: Groundnut
10. Biological Control of Soilborne Diseases and Water Stress Management
in Groundnut ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 123
Dhruti Amin, Abhishek Sharma, Sanket Ray, and Siva Satya Mohan Jampala
Section IV Crop Responses to Microbe-Mediated
Abiotic Stress Management
11. Microbial Mitigation of Abiotic Stress Responses in Legumes …………………………………………141
Utkarsh M. Bitla, Akash L. Shinde, Ajay M. Sorty, Kamlesh K. Meena,
and Narendra P. Singh
12. Microbial Bioinoculants for Salt Stress Tolerance in Plants …………………………………………….155
Mohammed Shariq Iqbal and Mohammad Israil Ansari
13. Microbial Mitigation of Salinity and Water Stress in Legume Crops ……………………………….165
Sanket Ray, Dhruti Amin, and Nafisa Patel
14. Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) for the Mitigation of Salt Stress
and Growth Promotion of Chickpea ……………………………………………………………………………….177
Kusum Sharma and Senthilkumar Murugesan
15. Contribution of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis to Salinity Tolerance
in Leguminous Plants …………………………………………………………………………………………………….191
Hassan Etesami and Saeid Shafiei
16. Microbial-Mediated Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Soybean Plants ……………………………………. 209
Abhishek Bharti, Hemant S. Maheshwari, Mahaveer P. Sharma, and Anil Prakash
Section V Crop Responses to Microbe-Mediated Biotic
Stress Management
17. Bacterial Biological Control Agents for Soilborne Diseases Management in Pulses:
Present Status and Future Prospects ………………………………………………………………………………231
Pranamita Kunda, Abhishek Mukherjee, and Paltu Kumar Dhal
18. Bacillus thuringiensis Cry Gene Mediated Biological Pest Management
in Grain Legumes …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 245
Abhishek Sharma, Dhruti Amin, Rajesh Arora, and Ajay Kumar Mathur
19. Structural and Functional Diversity of Cry Genes and Their Utilization
in Pest Management of Grain Legumes …………………………………………………………………………. 257
G. K. Sujayanand and Sonika Pandey
20. Microbial Mitigation of Biotic Stresses in Soybean (Glycine max) ………………………………….. 271
E. T. Alori, A. O. Adekiya, A. Joseph, C. O. Aremu, and K. A. Adegbite