Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology: New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology explains how certain techniques can be used to manipulate plant growth and development, focusing on the cross-kingdom transfer of genes to incorporate novel phenotypes in plants, including the utilization of microbes at every step, from cloning and characterization, to the production of a genetically engineered plant. This book covers microbial biotechnology in sustainable agriculture, aiming to improve crop productivity under stress conditions. It includes sections on genes encoding avirulence factors of bacteria and fungi, viral coat proteins of plant viruses, chitinase from fungi, virulence factors from nematodes and mycoplasma, insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis, and herbicide tolerance enzymes from bacteria. Introduces the principles of microbial biotechnology and its application in crop improvementLists various new developments in enhancing plant productivity and efficiencyExplains the mechanisms of plant/microbial interactions and the beneficial use of these interactions in crop improvementExplores various bacteria classes and their beneficial effects in plant growth and efficiency INDICE: 1. Actinomycetes as potential plant growth promoting microbial communities 2. Microbial communities in rhizosphere: Potentials for sustainable crop production 3. Improving crop performance under heat stress using thermo-tolerant agriculturally important microorganisms 4. Phosphate-solubilizing Pseudomonads for improving crop plant nutrition and agricultural productivity 5. Targeted genome editing for crop improvement in post genome sequencing era 6. Microbial genes in crop improvement 7. Microbial transformations implicit with soil and crop productivity in rice system 8. The legume-rhizobia symbiosis for nitrogen fixation 9. Azotobacter: free living bacteria for crop improvement 10. Microbe-mediated enhancement of nitrogen and phosphorus content for crop improvement 11. Microbiome: a global perspectives in crop improvement 12. Molecular characterization of sugarcane viruses and their diagnostics 13. Application of microbial biotechnology in food processing 14. Microbiome in crops: Diversity, distribution and potential role in crops improvements 15. The molecular aspects of plant-microbe interactions 16. Novel RNA-based strategies for engineering Resistance to plant viruses 17. Cyanobacterial biodiversity and biotechnology: a promising approach for crop improvement 18. Plant growth promoting endophytic microorganisms: Role in crop improvement 19. Pseudomonas flourescens - A potential plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and biocontrol agent 20. Trichoderma, its multifarious utility in crop improvement

• ISBN: 978-0-444-63987-5
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 362
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés