1st Edition

Beneficial Plant-microbial Interactions Ecology and Applications

    468 Pages 4 Color & 22 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Beneficial Plant-microbial Interactions: Ecology and Applications provides insight into the mechanisms underlying the interactions of plants and microbes, the ecological relevance and roles of these symbioses, the adaptive mechanisms of plant-associated microorganisms to abiotic stress and their contribution to plant stress tolerance, and the potential of these interactions as tools in agrobiotechnology. A team of authors with wide experience in the area contribute up-to-date reviews in nineteen chapters devoted to different ecological and applied aspects of the rhizobia-legume symbiosis, ecto- and endomycorrhizas, and plant associations with diazotrophic or adiazotrophic plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria. The book is intended for students, researchers and academic faculty members in the field of agrobiotechnology.

    Nitrogen Fixing Endosymbiotic Bacteria: Old Chaps and New Findings
    Biodiversity of Slow-Growing Rhizobia: the Genus Bradyrhizobium
    Importance of Motile and Biofilm Lifestyles of Rhizobia for the Establishment of Symbiosis with Legumes
    Nod Factor Production and Abiotic Stress in Rhizobium
    Strategies of Salt Tolerance in the Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis
    Responses of Nodulated Legumes to Drought
    Mineral Nutrition in the Legume-Rhizobia Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
    Metal Transport in the Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis
    Ecology of Denitrification in Plant-Associated Bacteria
    Protein Secretion Systems in Bacterial-Plant Host Associations
    Nodular Endophytes: An Untapped Diversity
    Azospirillum-Plant Interaction: From Root Colonization to Plant Growth Promotion
    Biocontrol of Fungal Root Pathogens by Fluorescent Pseudomonads
    Inoculants Based in Autochthonous Microorganisms, a Strategy to Optimize Agronomic Performance of Biofertilizers
    Bioengineering the Legume Rhizosphere for Metal Phytostabilization of Contaminated Areas
    Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and Their Significance in Promoting Soil-Plant Systems Sustainability against Environmental Stresses
    Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) as Tools for Improving the Nutritional Quality of Crops
    Ectomycorrhized Plants: Methods and Applications
    Metagenomics of Plant-Microorganism Interaction: Source of Novel Recombinant Genes for Biotechnological Application

    Biography

    M. Belén Rodelas González Department of Microbiology Faculty of Pharmacy; Jesús González-López Department of Microbiology Faculty of Pharmacy, both University of Granada, Spain.