Rhizosphere Engineering

Helps readers apply research to agronomic practices to improve resource health and sustainability

Ramesh Chandra Dubey (Edited by), Pankaj Kumar (Edited by)

9780323899734, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2022

564 pages, 100 illustrations (40 in full color)
23.4 x 19 x 3.5 cm, 1.18 kg

Rhizosphere Engineering is a guide to applying environmentally sound agronomic practices to improve crop yield while also protecting soil resources. Focusing on the potential and positive impacts of appropriate practices, the book includes the use of beneficial microbes, nanotechnology and metagenomics. Developing and applying techniques that not only enhance yield, but also restore the quality of soil and water using beneficial microbes such as Bacillus, Pseudomonas, vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM) fungi and others are covered, along with new information on utilizing nanotechnology, quorum sensing and other technologies to further advance the science.

1. Plant growth promotion by rhizosphere dwelling microbes2. Indigenous nitrogen fixing microbes engineer rhizosphere and enhance nutrient availability and plant growth3. Rhizospheric bacteria as soil health engineer promoting plant growth4. Role of Bacillus species in soil fertility with reference to rhizosphere engineering5. Rhizobium as soil health engineer 6. Azotobacter- A potential symbiotic rhizosphere engineer7. Application of cyanobacetria in soil health and rhizospheric engineering 8. Bacterial Inoculants for Rhizosphere Engineering: Applications, Current Aspects and Challenges9. Microbial inoculants in agriculture and its effects on plant microbiome 10. Arbuscular Mycorrhiza - A Health Engineer for Abiotic Stress Alleviation 11. Potassium solubilizing microorganisms as soil health engineers: An insight into molecular mechanism12. Zinc solubilizing rhizobacteria as soil health engineer managing zinc deficiency in plants13. Rhizosphere engineering through pesticides-degrading beneficial microbes 14. Enzymes in rhizosphere engineering15. Actinobacterial enzymes - an approach for engineering the rhizosphere microorganisms as plant growth promotors16. Reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress in higher plants, and role of rhizosphere in soil remediation17. Nanotechnology for rhizosphere engineering18. Rhizospheric health management through nanofertilizers19. Quorum Sensing in Rhizosphere Engineering 20. Quorum sensing in rhizosphere microbiome: minding some serious business21. Metagenomics for Rhizosphere Engineering 22. Rhizosphere engineering for crop improvement23. Bacterial induced alleviation of cadmium and arsenic toxicity stress in plants: Mechanisms and future prospects24. Microbial community in soil-plant systems: Role in heavy metal (loid) detoxification and sustainable agriculture25. Rhizosphere microbe-mediated alleviation of aluminium and iron toxicity in acidic soils

Subject Areas: Pest control [TVP], Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Agricultural engineering & machinery [TVD], Agriculture & farming [TV], Technology: general issues [TB], The environment [RN], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB], Microbiology [non-medical PSG]