Field Crops: Sustainable Management by PGPR

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) as Protagonists of Ever-Sustained Agriculture: An Introduction

   • Dinesh Kumar Maheshwari, Meenu Saraf, Shrivardhan Dheeman

   Pages 1-10

3. Bacterial Mixtures, the Future Generation of Inoculants for Sustainable Crop Production

   • Yolanda Elizabeth Morales-García, Antonino Baez, Verónica Quintero-Hernández, Dalia Molina-Romero, América Paulina Rivera-Urbalejo, Laura Abisaí Pazos-Rojas et al.

   Pages 11-44

4. Does PGPR and Mycorrhizae Enhance Nutrient Use Efficiency and Efficacy in Relation to Crop Productivity?

   • Mahipal Choudhary, Vijay Singh Meena, Ram Prakash Yadav, Manoj Parihar, Arunav Pattanayak, S. C. Panday et al.

   Pages 45-68

5. In Sustainable Agriculture: Assessment of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in Cucurbitaceous Vegetable Crops

   • Musa Seymen, Ertan Sait Kurtar, Atilla Dursun, Önder Türkmen

   Pages 69-103

6. Harnessing Beneficial Bacillus in Productivity Improvement of Food Security Crops of Himalayan Agro-Climatic Zones

   • Shrivardhan Dheeman, Dinesh Kumar Maheshwari, Ramesh Chand Dubey, Sandeep Kumar, Nitin Baliyan, Sandhya Dhiman

   Pages 105-143

7. Utilization of Endophytic Bacteria Isolated from Legume Root Nodules for Plant Growth Promotion

   • Winston Franz Ríos-Ruiz, Renzo Alfredo Valdez-Nuñez, Eulogio J. Bedmar, Antonio Castellano-Hinojosa

   Pages 145-176

8. Plant–Microbes Relationships in Soil Ecological System and Benefits Accruable to Food Health

   • Lateef Bamidele Taiwo, Adedayo Omowumi Oyedele, Bukola Victoria Ailenokhuoria, Oladapo Titus Okareh

   Pages 177-190

9. The Role of Rhizobacterial Volatile Organic Compounds in a Second Green Revolution—The Story so Far

   • Darren Heenan-Daly, Siva L. S. Velivelli, Barbara Doyle Prestwich

   Pages 191-220

10. Potential of PGPR in Improvement of Environmental-Friendly Vegetable Production

    • Haluk Caglar Kaymak

    Pages 221-251

11. Problem of Mercury Toxicity in Crop Plants: Can Plant Growth Promoting Microbes (PGPM) Be an Effective Solution?

    • Swapnil Sapre, Reena Deshmukh, Iti Gontia-Mishra, Sharad Tiwari

    Pages 253-278

12. Regulatory Role of Rhizobacteria to Induce Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance in Plants

    • Humaira Yasmin, Asia Nosheen, Rabia Naz, Rumana Keyani, Seemab Anjum

    Pages 279-335

13. Growth and Yield of Field Crops Grown Under Drought Stress Condition Is Influenced by the Application of PGPR

    • Naeem Khan, Asghari Bano

    Pages 337-349

14. Plant Growth Promotion and Suppression of Fungal Pathogens in Rice (Oryza Sativa L.) by Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria

    • Hassan Etesami

    Pages 351-383

15. Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria-Induced Defense Against Insect Herbivores

    • Joseph Disi, Jocelyn Simmons, Simon Zebelo

    Pages 385-410

16. Potential Effect of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) on Enhancing Protection Against Viral Diseases

    • Ahmed R. Sofy, Mahmoud R. Sofy, Ahmed A. Hmed, Noha K. El-Dougdoug

    Pages 411-445

17. Conclusion

    • Piyush Pandey

    Pages 447-449

18. Back Matter

    Pages 451-458

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This book discusses the most challenging task ahead of researchers from India and around the globe: providing disease-free field crops for the ever-growing world population. In Asia, despite being cultivated in massive volumes, major crops, including cereals, oil seed, tuber and non-tuber vegetables, and fruit, are not meeting the demands of the increasing population. This book showcases naturally occurring beneficial microbes in the form of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, or PGPR, which make it possible to grow field crops without applying synthetic chemicals.


Our understanding of PGPR has increased exponentially in recent decades. They play a multifarious role in developing sustainable systems of crop production and protection. The book focuses on the mechanistic behaviors of PGPRs, their use to develop sustainable cultivation techniques, and their application to enhance crop growth and productivity at the cutting edge of tech-oriented agricultureand to replace hazardous chemicals with microbial inoculants. The book is useful to agronomists, microbiologists, ecologists, plant pathologists, molecular biologists, environmentalists, policy makers, conservationists, and NGOs working on organically grown field crops.

• rhizobacteria
• crop yielding
• biodiversity
• symbiosis
• sustainability

• Department of Botany and Microbiology, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, India

  Dinesh Kumar Maheshwari, Shrivardhan Dheeman

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