Unravelling Plant-Microbe Synergy

Unravelling Plant-Microbe Synergy
Author: Dinesh Chandra
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323985327
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Unravelling Plant-Microbe Synergy focuses on agriculturally important microorganisms (AIM’s) that are indigenous to soil and roots of the plant. These microbes contributing to nutrient balance, growth regulators, suppressing pathogens, alleviate stress response, orchestrating immune response and improving crop performance as they are offering sustainable and alternative solutions to the use of chemicals in agriculture. As plant microbe synergy is an enthralling subject, is multidisciplinary in nature, and concerns scientists involved in applied, and environmental microbiology and plant health and plant protection, Unravelling Plant-Microbe Synergy is an ideal resource that emphasizes the current trends of, and probable future of, microbes mediated amelioration of abiotic and biotic stress, agriculture sustainability, induced systemic tolerance and plant health protection. Unravelling Plant-Microbe Synergy discloses the microbial interaction for stress management and provides a better understanding to know the recent mechanisms to cope these environmental stresses. Unravelling Plant-Microbe Synergy bridges the gap in recent advances in the microbes interaction and rhizosphere engineering. Emphasizes the plant microbes interactions, induced systemic tolerance, stress responsive genes and diversity of microorganisms Illustrates the current impact of climate change on plant productivity along with mitigation strategies Provides a two-way interactive approach to both plants and microbes, and includes multi-omics approaches

Mitigation of Plant Abiotic Stress by Microorganisms

Mitigation of Plant Abiotic Stress by Microorganisms
Author: Gustavo Santoyo
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2022-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323906931
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The microbial ecosystem provides an indigenous system for improving plant growth, health and stress resilience. Plant microbiota, including isolated microbial communities, have been studied to further understand the functional capacities, ecological structure and dynamics of the plant-microbe interaction. Due to climatic changes, there is an urgent need to bring microbial innovations into practice. Mitigation of Plant Abiotic Stress by Microorganisms: Applicability and Future Directions is a comprehensive review of the different strategies available to improve the plant microbiome. Chapters include key topics such as: harnessing endophytic microbial diversity, microbial genes for improving abiotic stress tolerance, and microbial bioformulations. Putting these strategies into practice can have varying success in the field, so it is crucial that scientists are equipped with the knowledge of which microorganisms are needed, as well as the use and suitability of delivery approaches and formulations. This title will be an essential read for researchers and students interested in plant microbial technologies and plant bio stimulants, plant pathology, biocontrol, agronomy, and environmental mediation. Discusses adaptive mechanisms of plant against multiple stresses Highlights diversity of symbiotic microorganisms associated with insects and their impact on host plants Provides functional genomics tools for studying microbe-mediated stress tolerance

Functional Foods and Biotechnology

Functional Foods and Biotechnology
Author: Kalidas Shetty
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2020-04-13
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1000760286
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The second book of the Food Biotechnology series, Functional Foods and Biotechnology: Biotransformation and Analysis of Functional Foods and Ingredients highlights two important and interrelated themes: biotransformation innovations and novel bio-based analytical tools for understanding and advancing functional foods and food ingredients for health-focused food and nutritional security solutions. The first section of this book provides novel examples of innovative biotransformation strategies based on ecological, biochemical, and metabolic rationale to target the improvement of human health relevant benefits of functional foods and food ingredients. The second section of the book focuses on novel host response based analytical tools and screening strategies to investigate and validate the human health and food safety relevant benefits of functional foods and food ingredients. Food biotechnology experts from around the world have contributed to this book to advance knowledge on bio-based innovations to improve wider health-focused applications of functional food and food ingredients, especially targeting non-communicable chronic disease (NCD) and food safety relevant solution strategies. Key Features: Provides system science-based food biotechnology innovations to design and advance functional foods and food ingredients for solutions to emerging global food and nutritional insecurity coupled public health challenges. Discusses biotransformation innovations to improve human health relevant nutritional qualities of functional foods and food ingredients. Includes novel host response-based food analytical models to optimize and improve wider health-focused application of functional foods and food ingredients. The overarching theme of this second book is to advance the knowledge on metabolically-driven food system innovations that can be targeted to enhance human health and food safety relevant nutritional qualities and antimicrobial properties of functional food and food ingredients. The examples of biotransformation innovations and food analytical models provide critical insights on current advances in food biotechnology to target, design and improve functional food and food ingredients with specific human health benefits. Such improved understanding will help to design more ecologically and metabolically relevant functional food and food ingredients across diverse global communities. The thematic structure of this second book is built from the related initial book, which is also available in the Food Biotechnology Series Functional Foods and Biotechnology: Sources of Functional Food and Ingredients, edited by Kalidas Shetty and Dipayan Sarkar (ISBN: 9780367435226) For a complete list of books in this series, please visit our website at: https://www.crcpress.com/Food-Biotechnology-Series/book-series/CRCFOOBIOTECH

New Insights Into Phytohormones

New Insights Into Phytohormones
Author: Basharat Ali
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2024-03-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1837698260
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Plants, like all living organisms, communicate through a sophisticated language that is often hidden from the naked eye. At the heart of this intricate communication network are phytohormones, the silent orchestrators of growth, development, and response to environmental cues. In New Insights into Phytohormones, we embark on a journey deep into the molecular realm of plants, unraveling the mysteries of these powerful signaling molecules. Dive into the fascinating world of phytohormones as this book takes you on an exploration of their roles in plant physiology from germination to senescence. Gain a comprehensive understanding of how these chemical messengers coordinate processes such as cell elongation, flowering, and stress responses. Through the lens of cutting-edge research and real-world applications, discover the practical implications of harnessing phytohormones for agriculture, horticulture, and beyond.

Microbiome-mediated Influence on Negative Plant-soil Feedback Process of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems

Microbiome-mediated Influence on Negative Plant-soil Feedback Process of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems
Author: Liang Cheng
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
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Plants influence the microbiome and abiotic properties of soils to a substantial extent, which could cause feedback effects on subsequent plantings. Plant-soil feedback (PSF) can be positive, negative, or neutral, contributing to management implications for a variety of agricultural systems. The goal of the dissertation research is to uncover the microbial drivers of negative plant-soil feedback using a model weed species, common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.), that is native to North America and has expanded its geographic range across Europe and Asia. Specifically, we: 1) conducted literature research for novel methodologies and approaches in screening the soil microbiome for weed biocontrol agents and bioherbicide; 2) investigated microbiome-mediated variation in PSF intensity across organic and conventional farming systems using A. artemisiifolia as the model plant; 3) examined the role of root exudates in driving soil microbiome-mediated PSF between organic and conventional farming systems; and 4) explored the feasibility of GHz ultrasonic imaging in screening large-insert metagenomic libraries of weed suppressive rhizospheres for novel natural product discovery of herbicidal compounds. The second chapter greenhouse PSF study showed that microbiome-mediated PSF of common ragweed was mostly negative and differed in intensity between organic and conventional farming systems. The PSF was driven by a small subset of the microbiome. The third chapter growth chamber study suggested that root exudates of common ragweed shifted the soil microbiome and drove the different PSF responses between organic and conventional system microbiomes. The fourth chapter exploratory work with the GHz ultrasonic chip showed a potential alternative for high throughput screening of metagenomic libraries for natural product discovery featuring a bioactive clone uncovered from the rhizosphere of A. artemisiifolia. Overall, our work shows that distinct PSF responses between organic and conventional farming systems can be mediated by the soil microbiome and root exudates. These studies are the first to indicate variability in PSF intensities by farming management systems and in comparison to whole plant versus root exudate contributions. Our research provides further understanding of the mechanisms of negative PSF and contributes to novel insights into weed management strategies in regenerative agriculture.

Plant-Microbe Dynamics

Plant-Microbe Dynamics
Author: Tanveer Bilal Pirzadah
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2021-06-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000388913
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Plants and microbes have co-evolved and interacted with each other in nature. Understanding the complex nature of the plant-microbe interface can pave the way for novel strategies to improve plant productivity in an eco-friendly manner. The microbes associated with plants, often called plant microbiota, are an integral part of plant life. The significance of the plant microbiome is a reliable approach toward sustainability to meet future food crises and rejuvenate soil health. Profiling plant-associate microbiomes (genome assemblies of all microbes) is an emerging concept in understanding plant-microbe interactions. Microbiota extends the plant capacity to acclimatize fluctuating environmental conditions through several mechanisms. Thus, unraveling the mystery of plant-microbe dynamics through latest technologies to better understand the role of metabolites and signal pathway mechanisms is very important. This book shares the latest insight on omics technologies to unravel plant-microbe dynamic interactions and other novel phytotechnologies for cleaning contaminated soils. Besides, it also provides brief insight on the recently discovered clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats CRISPR-Cas9, which is a genome editing tool to explore plant-microbe interactions and how this genome editing tool helps to improve the ability of microbes/plants to combat abiotic/biotic stresses.