PGPR Amelioration in Sustainable Agriculture: Food Security and Environmental Management

Content: Front Cover
 PGPR Amelioration in Sustainable Agriculture
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 List of Contributors
 Biography
 1. Ecology and Diversity of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in Agricultural Landscape
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 Microbial Diversity Analysis
 1.3 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria
 1.4 Spatio-Temporal Changes and Factor Affecting PGPR Diversity
 1.5 Phosphate Solubilization
 1.6 Siderophore Production
 1.7 Nutrient Exchange
 1.8 Microorganisms in Agriculture
 1.9 Future Perspective
 1.10 Conclusions
 References 2. Mechanisms of Plant-Microbe Interactions and its Significance for Sustainable Agriculture 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 Cataloguing the Plant-Microbe Interaction
 2.2.1 A systemic perspective of plant-microbe interaction: Symbiosis verses pathogenesis
 2.2.2 Plant-microbe interaction: Biofertilizer
 2.2.3 Plant-microbe interactions: Rhizoremediation
 2.2.4 Plant-microbe interactions: Biocontrol agent
 2.3 Factors Governing Plant-Microbe Interactions
 2.4 Applications of Plant-Microbe Interactions
 2.5 Conclusion and Future Perspectives
 References
 Further Reading 3. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria: Application in Biofertilizers and Biocontrol of Phytopathogens 3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria as Biofertilizer
 3.3 Mechanism of Action
 3.3.1 Phosphate solubilization
 3.3.2 Siderophore production
 3.3.3 Phytohormones production
 3.3.4 Ammonia and hydrogen cyanide production
 3.3.5 Enzyme production
 3.3.6 Nitrogen fixation
 3.4 Microbial Inoculation for the Plant Growth Promotion
 3.5 Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria as Biocontol
 3.6 Conclusion
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Further Reading 4. PGPR Bioelicitors: Induced Systemic Resistance (ISR) and Proteomic Perspective on Biocontrol 4.1 Introduction
 4.2 PGPR as BCAs and their Mode of Actions
 4.2.1 Antibiotics
 4.2.2 Siderophores
 4.2.3 Cell wall degrading enzymes
 4.2.4 Volatile organic compounds
 4.2.5 Induced systemic resistance
 4.3 Proteomic Perspective on Biocontrol
 4.4 Conclusion and Future Perspective
 References
 Further Reading
 5. Amelioration of Salinity Stress by PGPR: ACC Deaminase and ROS Scavenging Enzymes Activity
 5.1 Introduction
 5.2 Salinity Stress and ROS
 5.3 ROS Scavenging in Plants 5.4 Ethylene in Salinity Stress 5.4.1 Regulation of plant stress ethylene levels
 5.5 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria
 5.5.1 ACC deaminase-containing bacteria
 5.5.2 PGPR and ROS scavenging in salt stress
 5.5.3 ACC deaminase containing rhizobacteria in salt stress
 5.6 Future Prospective
 Acknowledgments
 References
 Further Reading
 6. Role of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in Drought Tolerance: Regulating Growth Hormones and Osmolytes
 6.1 Introduction
 6.2 Drought Adaptations by Plants-Microbe Combination
 6.3 Mechanisms Followed by Plants for Drought Tolerance