Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes for Sustainable Biotic and Abiotic Stress Management

Abiotic and biotic stress factors, including drought, salinity, waterlog, temperature extremes, mineral nutrients, heavy metals, plant diseases, nematodes, viruses, and diseases, adversely affect growth as well as yield of crop plants worldwide. Plant growth-promoting microorganisms (PGPM) are receiving increasing attention from agronomists and environmentalists as candidates to develop an effective, eco-friendly, and sustainable alternative to conventional agricultural (e.g., chemical fertilizers and pesticide) and remediation (e.g., chelators-enhanced phytoremediation) methods employed to deal with climate change-induced stresses. Recent studies have shown that plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), rhizobia, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), cyanobacteria have great potentials in the management of various agricultural and environmental problems.

This book provides current research of biofertilizers and the role of microorganisms in plant health, with specific emphasis on the mitigating strategies to combat plant stresses.

Prof. Heba Ibrahim Mohamed Ibrahim
Professor of Plant Physiology
Ain Shams University
El Makres St. Roxy
Cairo 1575 
Egypt



Dr. Heba Ibrahim Mohamed is a Professor of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Education, Biological and Geological Sciences Department, Ain Shams University. Dr. Heba had M.Sc and Ph.D in Plant Physiology, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University. Dr. Heba’s research interests include biotic and abiotic stress, plant biochemistry, use of eco-friendly compounds to alleviate plant stress, plant secondary metabolites and genetic differences between different genotypes. She has published, 8 book chapters, 1 review articles and more than 57 research articles in international peer reviewed journals including Agronomy, Plants, Molecules, Sustainability, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Biological Trace Element Research, Photosynthetica, European Journal of Plant Pathologyand other journals. Dr heba is reviewer in journals including Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Scientific reports, The Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology and Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. She also is editor in Journal, Microbial Biosystems. Dr Heba is a member of project titled Genome wide association study GWAS of dodder tolerance in the model plant Medicago truncatula to detect key genetic factors and accelerate MAS in fodder legumes. Belonging to PHC IMHOTEP bilateral Egypt France cooperation in science and technology program 2019. Dr heba has obtained certificate of recognition in honor of achievement in international publication that supports Ain Shams University World Ranking 25/6/2012, 2017, 2018. Dr heba has obtained country encouragement prize in Cairo 2018.



Prof. Hossam El-Din Saad El-Beltagi
1Agircultural Biotechnology Department
College of Agriculture and Food Sciences
KingFaisal University
Al-Ahsa 31982
Saudi Arabia
2Biochemistry Department 
Faculty of Agriculture 
Cairo University 
Giza 
Egypt


Hossam El-Beltagi, Ph.D. is a Professor at Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia and a Professor at Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Hossam research interests include plant biotic and abiotic stress, plant biochemistry, Biotechnology and plant secondary metabolites.  He has published, 5 book chapters, 1 review articles, and more than 102 research articles in international peer reviewed journals including Food Chemistry, PLoS One, International journal of food science and nutrition, Food Biochemistry, Molecules, Sustainability, Animals, Antioxidants, Radiation Physics And Chemistry, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, Grasas y acetes, Gesunde Pflanzen, Journal of Biotechnology, Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici cluj napoca, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, and Journal of medicinal plant research. He is Associate Editor in many International Journals in different publishing houses including Journal of Advanced Research in Elsevier and Notulae Scientia Biologicae, Dr. Hoosam attended more than 25 international conferences and workshops. He has a member of more than 8 international scientific societies. Dr. Hossam reviewer in more than 30 international peer reviewed journals in many publishing houses. He received many Prizes including Ministry of Higher Education Prize for International Publishing Award in top Eigen factor Score journal 2012, Country Encouragement Prize for Agriculture Sciences, 2013. Cairo University Encouragement Prize in advanced technological sciences 2013, Cairo University scientific excellence Prize in the field of interdisciplinary environmental science 2015. Dr. Hossam servedas visiting professor in Biochemistry department in college of science in Granada University, Spain 2017. He served as Consultant in Deanship of Scientific Research in King Faisal University since 2019 to date.




Prof. Kamel Ahmed Abd-Elsalam 
Plant Pathology Research Institute
Agricultural Research Center (ARC)
Giza
Egypt


Kamel Abd-Elsalam, Ph.D. is a Research Professor at Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Kamel’s research interests include developing, improving and deploying plant biosecurity diagnostic tools, understanding and exploiting fungal pathogen genomes and developing eco-friendly hybrid nanomaterials for controlling toxicogenic fungi and plant diseases. He has published, 10 book chapters, 6 review articles, 1 translated book, and more than 120 research articles in international peer reviewed journals including Fungal Diversity, Fungal Biology, FEMS Review Microbiology, PLOS One and PLOS Genetics. He is associate editor for Mycosphere, and review editor for Frontiers in Genomic Assay Technology and referees for journals, including the Plant Pathology, Journal of Phytopathology, and Crop Protection, IET Nanotechnology, Fungal Diversity, BMC Genomics, Foodborne Pathogens and Diseases and edited or authored some books. Dr. Kamel has also served as molecular mycologist for 5 years in the Department Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He received the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils Prize for distinguished scientific research in biotechnology (fungal genomics) during 2014 (first ranking). Dr. Kamel has pursued his Ph.D. in Molecular Plant Pathology from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel (Germany) and Suez Canal University (Egypt) and then been awarded postdoctoral fellowship from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel in 2008. Dr. Kamel served as visiting associate professor in Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand, Institute of Microbiology, TUM, Germany, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and Plant Protection Department, Sassari University, Italy.