Sustainable Horticulture: Microbial Inoculants and Stress Interaction

Sustainable Horticulture: Microbial Inoculants and Stress Interaction gives insights into the applications and formulations of microbial inoculants. In recent years, the optimum yields of horticultural plants largely influenced by rising global temperature, biotic stress (attack of pathogens) and abiotic stresses has created extra pressure for the horticulturalist to meet the need of optimum yield production for the burgeoning global population. However, the challenges of biotic and abiotic stress factors mitigated by traditional physical or chemicals methods include high application cost and adverse impact on quality limit the frequent use, hence the solutions in this book create new avenues for progress.

This book covers those challenges and how microbial based bio inoculants are broadly used in horticulture to mitigate the challenges of biotic and abiotic stresses. It provides an important contribution on how to apply efficient beneficial microbes (microbial inoculants) for a sustainable society.

• Provides quality chapters from the leading academician and researchers from the different parts of the world
• Gives insights on the applications and formulations of microbial inoculants
• Covers the challenges of biotic and abiotic stress factors mitigated by traditional physical or chemicals methods that are costly

Dr. Musa Seymen is currently working at Selcuk University, Horticulture Department of Agriculture Faculty, Konya/Turkey. Dr. Seymen completed his doctoral research from The Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science of Selcuk University Konya/Turkey. He has published more than seventy research articles and book chapters in leading International and National journals or books. He has a wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, In addition, he has publications in journals such as Agricultural Water Management and Scientia Horticulturae belonging to the world famous Elsevier group. He is also acting as a reviewer in some leading journals. He is still working on research on the effects of beneficial bacteria in vegetables on plant growth and physiology and produces book chapters on the subject

Dr. Ertan Sait Kurtar is currently working at Selcuk University, Horticulture Department of Agriculture Faculty, Konya/Turkey. Dr. Kurtar completed his doctoral research from The Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science of Çukurova University Adana/Turkey. He has a wide area of research experience, especially in the field of tissue culture (regeneration

Dr. Ceknas Erdinc is currently working at Van Yuzuncu Yil University, l Biotechnology Department, Van/Turkey. Dr. Erdinc completed his doctoral research from The Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science of Van Yuzuncu Yil University Van/Turkey. He has published more than seventy research articles and book chapters in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Microbe Interactions, vegetable breeding, plant physiology and drought and salt stress. In addition, he has publications in journals such as Biochemical Systematics and Ecology and Scientia Horticulturae belonging to the world-famous Elsevier group. He is also acting as a reviewer in some leading journals. He is still working on the effects of PGPR and AMF in vegetables on plant growth and physiology and produces book chapters on the subject

Ajay Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India. He previously served as a Visiting Scientist at the Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel (2018–2022), and completed his doctoral research at the Department of Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, focusing on plant–microbe interactions. Dr. Kumar’s research expertise spans plant–microbe interactions, microbial biocontrol, postharvest fruit disease management, microbial endophytes of medicinal plants, and cyanobacteria–pesticide interactions. He is a prolific author in leading international journals and is also actively engaged in academic editing with major publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, and Wiley. Dr. Kumar currently serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology and BMC Microbiology, a Guest Editor for Microorganisms and Plants (MDPI), and a Series Editor for Plant and Soil Microbiome (Elsevier).