Salt Stress, Microbes, and Plant Interactions: Causes and Solution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Global Concern for Salinity on Various Agro-Ecosystems

   • Ghulam Mustafa, Mohd Sayeed Akhtar, Rabia Abdullah

   Pages 1-19

3. Potentiality of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in Easing of Soil Salinity and Environmental Sustainability

   • Faryad Khan, Khan Bilal Mukhtar Ahmed, Mohammad Shariq, Mansoor Ahmad Siddiqui

   Pages 21-58

4. Use of Plant Hormones for the Improvement of Plant Growth and Production Under Salt Stress

   • Rabia Amir, Faiza Munir, Maryam Khan, Tooba Iqbal

   Pages 59-90

5. Plant Growth Regulators and Salt Stress: Mechanism of Tolerance Trade-Off

   • Qazi Fariduddin, Abbu Zaid, Firoz Mohammad

   Pages 91-111

6. Impact of Plant-Microbe Interactions on Plant Metabolism Under Saline Environment

   • Praveen Kumar Gupta, Yuvashankar K.J, Saketh Vishnu B.O, Arvind Reddy Kandi, Anwesha Sinha, Vidhyavathy Nagarajan et al.

   Pages 113-127

7. Plant Survival and Tolerance Under High Salinity: Primary and Secondary Cell Wall-Sensing Mechanism

   • Amrina Shafi, Insha Zahoor

   Pages 129-146

8. Field Application of Rhizobial Inoculants in Enhancing Faba Bean Production in Acidic Soils: An Innovative Strategy to Improve Crop Productivity

   • Alemayehu Getahun, Diriba Muleta, Fassil Assefa, Solomon Kiros

   Pages 147-180

9. Heavy Metal Stress and Tolerance in Plants Mediated by Rhizospheric Microbes

   • Mallappa Kumara Swamy, Narasimhaswamy Nalina, Dasappa Nalina, Mohd Sayeed Akhtar, Boregowda Purushotham

   Pages 181-198

10. Use of Nanoparticles in Alleviating Salt Stress

    • Irfan Ahmad, Mohd Sayeed Akhtar

    Pages 199-215

11. Soil-Plant and Microbial Interaction in Improving Salt Stress

    • Hera Nadeem, Faheem Ahmad

    Pages 217-235

12. Plants Growing Under Salinity Stress Can Be Eased Through Mycorrhizal Association

    • Pratibha Parihar, Madhumati Bora

    Pages 237-248

13. Halophilic Microbe Interactions with Plants to Mitigate Salt Stress

    • Sanjay Arora, Divya Sahni

    Pages 249-272

14. Effect of Salinity on Soil Nutrients and Plant Health

    • Ankita Bidalia, Krati Vikram, Gupta Yamal, K. S. Rao

    Pages 273-297

This book offers an overview of salt stress, which has a devastating effect on the yields of various agricultural crops around the globe. Excessive salts in soil reduce the availability of water, inhibit metabolic processes, and affect nutrient composition, osmotic balance, and hydraulic conductivity. Plants have developed a number of tolerance mechanisms, such as various compatible solutes, polyamines, reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defense mechanisms, ion transport and compartmentalization of injurious ions. The exploitation of genetic variation, use of plant hormones, mineral nutrients, soil microbe interactions, and other mechanical practices are of prime importance in agriculture, and as such have been the subject of multidisciplinary research.

Covering both theoretical and practical aspects, the book provides essential physiological, ecological, biochemical, environmental and molecular information as well as perspectives for future research. It is a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers and anyone interested in agronomy, ecology, stress physiology, environmental science, crop science and molecular biology. 

• Agro-ecosystem
• Plant metabolisms
• Microbial Amelioration
• Salt stress tolerance
• Stress physiology

• Department of Botany, Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, India

  Mohd Sayeed Akhtar

Dr. Mohd Sayeed Akhtar (PhD) is working as an Assistant Professor in Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, U.P., India. He has received his PhD degree from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India in 2008, prior to conducting post-doctoral research at the Botanical Institute, University of Basel (BIB), Switzerland (2008–2010), and Chonbuk National University (CBNU), Republic of Korea in 2011. He was an Assistant Professor, Jimma University, Ethiopia (2011-2014), and a fellow researcher at the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), (2014-2015). Dr. Akhtar has more than 15 years of research, and 10 years of teaching experience in soil microbiology, applied microbiology, environmental microbiology, molecular biology, plant pathology and plant nanobiotechnology. He is author and co-author of more than hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters, and has edited 12 books with international publishers. He is serving the scientific community as editorial board member and reviewer of several high-impact international journals. His current research is focused on the rhizospheric plant-microbe interactions and their molecular biotechnology, bioremediation, biomineralization, nano-fertilizers and nanobiotechnology.

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