Description
Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology explains how certain techniques can be used to manipulate plant growth and development, focusing on the cross-kingdom transfer of genes to incorporate novel phenotypes in plants, including the utilization of microbes at every step, from cloning and characterization, to the production of a genetically engineered plant. This book covers microbial biotechnology in sustainable agriculture, aiming to improve crop productivity under stress conditions. It includes sections on genes encoding avirulence factors of bacteria and fungi, viral coat proteins of plant viruses, chitinase from fungi, virulence factors from nematodes and mycoplasma, insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis, and herbicide tolerance enzymes from bacteria.- 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
Table of Contents
1. The Use of Microorganisms for Gene Transfer and Crop Improvement2. Actinomycetes as potential plant growth promoting microbial communities 3. Microbial genes in crop improvement4. 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 interactions7. Novel Strategies for Engineering Resistance to Plant Viral Diseases8. Molecular characterization of sugarcane viruses and their diagnostics9. Cyanobacterial Biodiversity and Biotechnology: A Promising Approach for Crop Improvement10. Pseudomonas flourescens - A Potential Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and biocontrol agent11. Crop Improvement Through Microbial Technology: a Step Towards Sustainable Agriculture12. Microbial technologies for sustainable crop production13. Trichoderma, its multifarious utility in crop improvement14. Microbe-mediated enhancement of nitrogen and phosphorus content for crop improvement15. Microbiome in Crops: Diversity, distribution and potential role in crops improvements 16. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): Perspective in Agriculture under Biotic and Abiotic stress17. Rhizosphere metabolite profiling: An opportunity to understand plant–microbe interactions for crop improvement18. Phosphate-solubilizing Pseudomonads for improving crop plant nutrition and agricultural productivity19. Targeted Genome editing for crop improvement in post genome sequencing era20. Endophytic Microorganisms: Their Role in Plant Growth and Crop Improvement 21. Microbes in crop improvement: future challenges and perspective22. Plant-microbe interaction and genome sequencing: an evolutionary insight23. Crop breeding using CRISPR/Cas9
