Overview
- Challenges conventional, environmentally unsustainable, approaches to food crops management
- Highlights novel, eco-friendly, methodologies to promote plant growth and yields
- Comprehensive reviews on current holistic approach to sustainable agriculture
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About this book
Biofertilisers are compounds of organic matter that are applied to crops for growth and health. Their constituent micro-organisms interact in an ecofriendly manner with the soil, root and seeds of plants, promoting the growth of micro-flora that enhances soil fertility. They are known to play a number of vital roles in soil fertility, crop productivity and production in agriculture. Application of biofertilisers results in increased mineral and water uptake, root development, vegetative growth and nitrogen fixation. They liberate growth promoting substances and vitamins and help to maintain soil fertility. They act as antagonists and play a pivotal role in neutralising the soil borne plant pathogens, thereby assisting in the bio-control of diseases. Application of biofertilisers in lieu of synthetic fertilizers could be the promising technique to raise agricultural productivity without degrading the environmental quality.
The present book focuses on the latest research approaches and updates from the microbiota ecosystem and their applications in agriculture industry. It also highlightsthe great potential and possible future of action of microbiota in the development of sustainable agricultural systems.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Gowhar Hamid Dar is an Assistant Professor at Pratap College Campus, Cluster University Srinagar, India. He has been working on the Isolation, Identification and Characterization of microbes for the last several years so to understand their behavioural aspects and to evaluate their industrial, economic aspects and their impact on our life. He has also published many research articles in reputed, referred international and national journals. Further he is involved in the teaching of post-graduate students of Environmental Science and in the teaching of Undergraduate course in Environment and Water Management at SP College campus of Cluster University Srinagar.
Dr. Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood is an Assistant Professor in the discipline of Environmental Sciences, Sri Pratap College campus, Cluster University Srinagar, 190001. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in international journals. His current research focuses on the effect of spatio-temporal dynamics of heavy metal contamination on fishes in an urban Himalayan Lake with particular reference to the endemic fish Shizothorax niger.
Dr Rouf Ahmad Bhat completed his PhD in Environmental Science (specialization: environmental microbiology) from the University of Kashmir, Srinagar under the able guidance of Prof. Azra N, Kamili and Prof. Bashir A. Ganai. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor (Environmental Science) at the Department of Environmental Science, Sri Pratap College, Cluster University Srinagar.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microbiota and Biofertilizers
Book Subtitle: A Sustainable Continuum for Plant and Soil Health
Editors: Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Gowhar Hamid Dar, Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood, Rouf Ahmad Bhat
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48771-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48770-6Published: 08 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48773-7Published: 09 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48771-3Published: 07 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 297
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Ecology, Soil Science & Conservation, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Agriculture, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology