Microbial Strategies for Crop Improvement - Khan, Mohammad Saghir; Zaidi, Almas; Musarrat, Javed; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
The Use of Microorganisms to Facilitate the Growth of Plants in Saline Soils -- Recent Advances in Plant Growth Promotion by Phosphate-Solubilizing Microbes -- Developing Beneficial Microbial Biofilms on Roots of Non legumes: A Novel Biofertilizing Technique -- Role of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase in Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis -- Strategies for Crop Improvement in Contaminated Soils Using Metal-Tolerant Bioinoculants -- Functional Diversity Among Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria: Current Status -- Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria and Sustainable Agriculture -- Soil Health - A Precondition for Crop Production -- Recent Advances in Biopesticides -- Benefits of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Sustainable Crop Production -- Enhancement of Rhizobia-Legumes Symbioses and Nitrogen Fixation for Crops Productivity Improvement -- Monitoring the Development of Nurse Plant Species to Improve the Performances of Reforestation Programs in Mediterranean Areas -- Pea Cultivation in Saline Soils: Influence of Nitrogen Nutrition -- Plant Growth-Promoting Diazotrophs and Productivity of Wheat on the Canadian Prairies -- Factors Affecting the Variation of Microbial Communities in Different Agro-Ecosystems -- Strategies for Utilizing Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Phosphate-Solubilizing Microorganisms for Enhanced Phosphate Uptake and Growth of Plants in the Soils of the Tropics.
Keywords: Agriculture; Microbial ecology; Microbiology; Plant science; Botany; Agricultural economics; Agriculture; Microbial Ecology; Microbiology; Plant Sciences; Agricultural Economics