New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology

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 New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology
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 Chapter 1: The Use of Microorganisms for Gene Transfer and Crop Improvement
 1 Agrobacterium-Based Technologies
 1.1 Gene Transfer Through Agrobacterium Tumefaciens
 1.2 Gene Transfer Through Agrobacterium Rhizogenes
 1.3 Non-Agrobacterium-Based Technologies
 2 Crop Improvement Through Transgenic Technology
 2.1 Herbicide Resistant Transgenic Plants
 2.2 Insect Resistant Transgenic Plants
 2.3 Nutritional Improvement. 2.4 Abiotic Stress Tolerance2.5 Engineering for Molecular Farming/Pharming
 3 Virus-Induced Transient Gene Expression in Plants
 3.1 Basic Mechanism of VIGS
 3.2 Methodology Development for VIGS
 3.3 Recent improvements of VIGS
 4 Microorganisms for Crop Improvement
 4.1 Bacteria
 4.2 Fungi
 4.3 Virus
 References
 Chapter 2: Actinomycetes as Potential Plant Growth-Promoting Microbial Communities
 1 Introduction
 2 Actinomycetes as Plant Growth Promoters
 2.1 Phosphate Solubilization
 2.2 Phytohormones Production
 2.3 Nutrient Mobilization
 3 Actinomycetes for Disease Suppression. 3.1 Antibiotic Production3.2 Actinomycetes for Reduced Dependency on Agrochemicals
 4 Actinomycetes for Biodegrading and Bioremediation
 5 Production of Novel Substances
 6 Futuristic Approaches
 References
 Chapter 3: Microbial Genes in Crop Improvement
 1 Introduction
 2 Microbial Genes and Genetic Elements Deployed for Plant Transformation
 3 Microbial Genes for Insect Resistance
 4 Microbial Genes for Herbicide Tolerance
 5 Microbial Genes for Modified Product Quality
 6 Microbial Genes for Abiotic Stress Tolerance
 7 Microbial Genes for Pathogen Resistance. 8 Microbial Genes for Hybrid Seed Production9 Public Perceptions and Biosafety Aspects of Use of Microbial Genes in Crop Improvement
 10 Coevolution of Plants and Microbes and Presence of Microbial Genetic Elements in Native Plants
 11 Load of Microbial Ingestions in Human Diets
 12 Conclusion
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Chapter 4: Microbial Transformations Implicit With Soil and Crop Productivity in Rice System
 1 Introduction
 2 Microbial Niches in Submerged Soils
 3 Major Microflora Associated With Rice Soil
 4 Sustainability of Rice Soil Ecosystems. 5 Microbial Involvement in Sustainability6 Altering Anaerobic and Aerobic Interface and Pesticide Biodegradation
 7 Implication of Microbial Methane Production From Flooded Soil
 8 Mitigation Options for Reducing Methane Emission From Flooded Rice
 9 Conclusions
 References
 Chapter 5: Application of Microbial Biotechnology in Food Processing
 1 Introduction
 2 Current Status of Microbial Biotechnology in Food Processing
 2.1 Roots, Tubers, and Cereal Grain Foods
 2.1.1 Improvement of Nutritional Quality
 Energy Density
 Nutrient Bioavailability
 2.1.2 Detoxification.