Soil Microbiomes for Sustainable Agriculture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Plant Growth-Promoting Soil Microbiomes: Beneficial Attributes and Potential Applications

   • Pragya Tiwari, Subir Kumar Bose, Hanhong Bae

   Pages 1-30

3. Microbes Associated with Crops: Functional Attributes for Crop Productivity

   • Slimane Mokrani, El-hafid Nabti

   Pages 31-54

4. Soil Microbes with Multifarious Plant Growth Promoting Attributes for Enhanced Production of Food Crops

   • Yasaman Kiani Boroujeni, Vahid Nikoubin Boroujeni, Ali Asghar Rastegari, Neelam Yadav, Ajar Nath Yadav

   Pages 55-83

5. Phosphorus Solubilization: Mechanisms, Recent Advancement and Future Challenge

   • Zarrindokht Emami-Karvani, Zahra Chitsaz-Esfahani

   Pages 85-131

6. Potassium Solubilization: Mechanism and Functional Impact on Plant Growth

   • Chanda Vikrant Berde, Sonal Suresh Gawde, Vikrant Balkrishna Berde

   Pages 133-148

7. Fe Chelation and Zinc Solubilization: A Promising Approach for Cereals Biofortification

   • Upendra Kumar, Priyanka, Rashmi Malik, Prexha, Yogita, Kamla Malik

   Pages 149-174

8. Soil Microbes in Plant Growth Promotion and for Mitigation of Abiotic Stress of Drought

   • Surendra Singh Jatav, Manoj Parihar, Abhik Patra, Satish Kumar Singh, Manoj Kumar Chitara, Kiran Kumar Mohapatra et al.

   Pages 175-201

9. Thermotolerant Soil Microbes and Their Role in Mitigation of Heat Stress in Plants

   • Sagar Maitra, Biswajit Pramanick, Prithwiraj Dey, Preetha Bhadra, Tanmoy Shankar, Kumar Anand

   Pages 203-242

10. Microbiomes of Hypersaline Soils and Their Role in Mitigation of Salt Stress

    • Salma Mukhtar, Dalaq Aiysha, Samina Mehnaz, Kauser Abdulla Malik

    Pages 243-266

11. Psychrotrophic Soil Microbes and Their Role in Alleviation of Cold Stress in Plants

    • Yachana Jha, Anjali Kulkarni, R. B. Subramanian

    Pages 267-286

12. Strategies for Abiotic Stress Management in Plants Through Soil Rhizobacteria

    • Vinay Kumar, Balram Sahu, Deep Chandra Suyal, P. Karthika, Manali Singh, Dipti Singh et al.

    Pages 287-313

13. The Omics Strategies for Abiotic Stress Responses and Microbe-Mediated Mitigation in Plants

    • Sagar Maitra, Preetha Bhadra, Ajar Nath Yadav, Jnana Bharati Palai, Jagadish Jena, Tanmoy Shankar

    Pages 315-377

14. Plant Probiotics: Technical Challenges and Emerging Solutions for Enhancing Food Crops

    • Ramna Zia, Malik Nawaz Shuja, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Sohail Afzal

    Pages 379-405

15. Biofertilizers: Microbes for Agricultural Productivity

    • Fatemeh Salimi, Javad Hamedi

    Pages 407-469

16. Biopesticides: Microbes for Agricultural Sustainability

    • Fatemeh Salimi, Javad Hamedi

    Pages 471-501

17. Mycorrhiza: Plant Growth-Promoting and Biocontrol Agent Ability Under the Abiotic Stress Conditions

    • Tayyaba Hussain, Muhammad Usmaan, Muhammad Numan, Aamir Abdullah Khan, Faiza Abbas, Alvina Gul

    Pages 503-527

18. Entomopathogenic Soil Microbes for Sustainable Crop Protection

    • Neelam Thakur, Preety Tomar, Simranjeet Kaur, Samiksha Jhamta, Rajesh Thakur, Ajar Nath Yadav

    Pages 529-571

19. Global Scenario of Soil Microbiome Research: Current Trends and Future Prospects

    • Gangavarapu Subrahmanyam, Amit Kumar, Reeta Luikham, Jalaja S. Kumar, Ajar Nath Yadav

    Pages 573-603

20. Functional Annotation and Biotechnological Applications of Soil Microbiomes: Current Research and Future Challenges

    • Ajar Nath Yadav, Tanvir Kaur, Divjot Kour, Rubee Devi, Geetika Guleria, Rajeshwari Negi et al.

    Pages 605-634

This book encompasses current knowledge of soil microbiomes and their potential biotechnological application for plant growth, crop yield, and soil health under the natural as well as harsh environmental conditions for sustainable agriculture. The microbes are ubiquitous in nature. The soil is a natural hotspot of the soil microbiome. The soil microbiome plays a critical role in the maintenance of global nutrient balance and ecosystem functioning. The soil microbiomes are associated with plant ecosystems through the intense network of plant–microbe interactions. The microbes present in bulk soil move toward the rhizospheric region due to the release of different nutrients by plant systems. The rhizospheric microbes may survive or proliferate in rhizospheric zone depending on the extent of influences of the chemicals secreted into the soil by roots. The root exudates contain the principal nutrients factors (amino acids, glucose, fructose, and sucrose). The microbes present in rhizospheric region have capabilities to fix atmospheric nitrogen, produce different phytohormones, and solubilize phosphorus, potassium, and zinc. The plant systems take these nutrients for their growth and developments. These soil and plant associated microbes also play an important role in protection of plants from different plant pathogenic organisms by producing different secondary metabolites such as ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, siderophores, and hydrolytic enzymes. The soil microbiomes with plant growth-promoting (PGP) attributes have emerged as an important and promising tool for sustainable agriculture. The soil microbiomes promote the plant growth and enhance the crop yield and soil fertility via directly or indirectly different plant growth-promoting mechanism. The soil microbes help the plant for adaptation in extreme habitats by mitigating the abiotic stress of high/low temperatures, hypersalinity, drought, and acidic/alkaline soil. These PGP microbes are used as biofertilizers/bioinoculants to replace the harmful chemical fertilizers for sustainable agriculture and environments.


The aim of the book “Soil Microbiomes for Sustainable Agriculture” is to provide the recent advances in mechanisms of plant growth promotion and applications of soil microbiomes for mitigation of different abiotic stresses in plants. The book is useful to scientists, researchers, and students related to microbiology, biotechnology, agriculture, molecular biology, environmental biology, and related subjects.

• Bioresources
• Biotechnological application
• Crop improvements
• Plant growth promotion
• Soil microbiomes

• Department of Biotechnology, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, India

  Ajar Nath Yadav

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