Plant Microbiome for Plant Productivity and Sustainable Agriculture

This edited book deals with latest comprehensive information on conventional and high throughput techniques and technologies that are recently used to study plant microbial interface for agricultural research and enhancing plant productivity. Plant microbiota are important for many plant growth promotion activity and agricultural productivity and are sustainable green technology for enhancing agricultural productivity under changing environment. 

The book covers recent information about the plant associated microbiota and their ecology. It discusses technologies to isolate and test microbiota inhabiting in different portion of plants. The book explores the conventional methods as well as the most recently recognized high throughput technologies which are important for productive agroecosystems to feed the growing global population.

This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, microbiologist, plant and environmental scientist and those interested inenvironment stewardship around the world. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, forestry, ecology, soil science, and environmental sciences and policy makers to be a useful to read.

Dr. Sagar Chhabra received his Ph.D. in Environmental Microbiology from the South East Technological University, Ireland, and has several years of postdoctoral experience working in Canada and Ireland in the field of agricultural and environmental microbiology and biotechnology. Dr. Chhabra is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Grade III) in the Department of Biosciences at Galgotias University, India, and previously worked as a Senior Researcher and Scientist in an industry in Ireland working on microbial product development for plant growth promotion and environmental clean-up. Dr. Chhabra has published several papers in the areas of plant and soil microbiomes and microbial ecology and has several national and international fellowships, travel grants, and other awards as a researcher 

Dr. Ram Prasad, Ph.D. is associated with the Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research interest includes appliedand environmental microbiology, plant-microbe-interactions, sustainable agriculture, and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than two hundred fifty publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles, and book chapters and six patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. Dr. Prasad has thirteen years of teaching experience and has been awarded the Young Scientist Award and Prof. J.S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal by the International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship by the Society for Applied Biotechnology; the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators, USA; Outstanding Scientist Award in the field of Microbiology; BRICPL Science Investigator Award and Research Excellence Award etc. He has been serving as an editorial board member of BMC Microbiology, BMC Biotechnology, Current Microbiology, Archives of Microbiology, Annals of Microbiology, IET Nanobiotechnology, Journal of Nanomaterials,^164

Dr. Naga Raju Maddela received his M.Sc. (1996–1998) and Ph.D. (2012) in Microbiology from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapuramu, India. During his doctoral program in the area of Environmental Microbiology, he investigated the effects of industrial effluents/insecticides on soil microorganisms and their biological activities and worked as a Faculty in Microbiology for 17 years, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. He received “Prometeo Investigator Fellowship” (2013–2015) from Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT), Ecuador, and “Postdoctoral Fellowship” (2016–2018) from Sun Yatsen University, China. He also received external funding from “China Postdoctoral Science Foundation” in 2017, internal funding from “Universidad Técnica de Manabí” in 2020, worked in the area of Environmental Biotechnology, participated in 20 national/international conferences, and presented research data in China, Cuba, Ecuador, India, and Singapore. Currently, he is working as a full-time Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo, Ecuador. He has published 7 books (Springer), 15 chapters (InTech Open/Springer), and 50 research papers. 

Dr. Narendra Tuteja, An elected fellow of numerous national and international science academies, Dr. Narendra Tuteja is former Director and Professor at Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, NOIDA, India, and former Group leader and Senior Scientist at International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India. He has made significant contributions to crop improvement under adverse conditions, reporting the first helicase from plant and human cells and demonstrating new roles of Ku autoantigen, nucleolin, and eIF4A as DNA helicases. Furthermore, he discovered novel functions of helicases, G proteins, CBL-CIPK and LecRLK in plant^35,000, h-index: >75, i^292.