Advanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

Advanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment focuses on plant-microbe interactions in respect to bioremediation and plant growth promotion, providing insights on diverse approaches such as genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and other high-throughput analyses of environmentally relevant microorganisms. The impact of frequent applications of potentially toxic chemicals (pesticides and fertilizers) and increased industrialization processes on microbial diversity emphasizes the potential threat to microbial biodiversity in ecosystems. This is an ideal resource on current trends and the future of PGPR developments with bioremediation potential.

Moreover, it gives a deep understanding of the genetics of microbial biodegradation and different remediation mechanisms that help to re-establish the natural environment.

• Helps readers find sustainable ways for environmental clean-up and increased agricultural productivity
• Gives a systematic overview of the role of PGPR in bioremediation, selection and preparation of potential PGPR microbial inoculum for bioremediation, biodegradation and plant growth promotion
• Illustrates the importance of PGPR in the bioremediation of potentially hazardous and relatively novel compounds with the maintenance of sustainable agricultural productivity
• Addresses emerging novel approaches of PGPR-based biodegradation of toxic compounds and highlights key developments and challenges associated with the processes

Saurabh Gangola is currently an Assistant Professor at Graphic Era Deemed to be University in the Department of Microbiology, Dehradun, India. He has completed his MSc and PhD in Microbiology from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in Pantnaga, India. His area of specialization is bioremediation and biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds (including pesticides, hydrocarbons, and azo dye), degradation kinetics, microbial stress-responsive enzymes, bioinformatics, molecular biology, plant-microbe interaction, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, culturable and unculturable microorganisms, and metagenomics. He has published several research papers, review papers in highly reputed journals, book chapters, edited books (Springer and Elsevier) and also published patents. He has edited special issues as a guest editor in Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Microbiology. He has been a valued editorial board member of several national and international journals.

Saurabh Kumar works in Agricultural Microbiology at ICAR- Research Complex for Eastern Region in Patna, India.

Samiksha Joshi is currently an Assistant Professor, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Himalayan School of Biosciences, Department of Biosciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. She has completed her MSc and PhD in Microbiology from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnaga, India. Her area of expertise is microbiology, molecular biology, plant-microbe interaction, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, metagenomics, biodegradation, and bioremediation. She has published 8 research and review articles in reputed international journals and has authored 8 book chapters.

Dr. Pankaj Bhatt completed his PhD. in microbiology from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. His research focused on the molecular and microbiological basis of bioremediation. Dr Bhatt has published several articles in high impact factor leading journals including Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Chemosphere, Environmental research, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, and 3-Biotech. He has also published several book chapters on microbial biotechnology. Presently he is working as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou China.