Soil Microorganisms for Plant Growth Promotion and Soil Health

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-34055-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Soil Microorganisms for Plant Growth Promotion and Soil Health provides readers with an overview of plant growth-promoting microorganisms and their molecular mechanisms to improve plant growth and soil health. Students and researchers in soil science will gain a comprehensive understanding of soil microbiota diversity and functions, along with insights into the mechanisms by which plant growth, including molecular processes involved in nutrient acquisitions and defense mechanisms work. In addition, the book provides a noteworthy emphasis on fungi.

A soil beneficial microbe cannot only be the living cells, but also their components, such as molecules or enzymes produced by this beneficial microbiota. Molecules like microbial phytohormones can be excellent promoters or regulators of plant growth, as well as proteins and other compounds like volatiles, which might elicit a systemic resistance response against pathogenic threats. Therefore, plant growth promoters living in soil, associated with plant roots, could act through direct beneficial interactions with the plant, by stimulating or regulating growth responses to environmental conditions, or indirectly by inhibiting the growth of potential microbial pathogens and herbivore pests.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Santoyo, Gustavo

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Soil microbiological diversity and soil functions
2. Impact of agrochemicals on soil health
3. Soil microorganisms for plant growth promotion
4. Rhizosphere fungi in sustainable agriculture
5. Plant microbiome and the holobiont concept
6. Diversity of plant root-associated microorganisms
7. Soil nitrogen-fixing bacteria
8. Mycorrhizal fungi and soil health
9. The rhizosphere as a source of plant endophytes
10. Biocontrol bacterial agents residing in soil
11. Plant growth-stimulating mechanisms by Trichoderma
12. Mycoparasitism by soil Trichoderma species
13. Microbial phytohormones production by soil microbes
14. Microbial facilitators of plant nutrient acquisition
15. Ethylene and ACC deaminase in beneficial soil microorganisms
16. Induced systemic resistance and microbial elicitors
17. Microbial siderophores
18. Microbial volatiles produced by soil bacteria
19. Diversity of plant growth promoters in saline soils
20. Stressful agriculture and soil microorganisms
21. The role of microorganisms on nutrient cycling
22. Fungal biodiversity and soil health
23. Soil enzyme activities as indicators of soil health

Über Autor(innen)

Santoyo, Gustavo
Dr. Gustavo Santoyo obtained his Doctor of Science degree in Biomedical Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2005 and did postdoctoral studies during 2005-2007 at the Center for Cancer Research, NIH, USA, as well as a sabbatical year (2014-2015) at the Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is currently a full-time research professor at the Institute of Chemical and Biological Research of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, in Morelia, Mexico. His research interest is led towards plant-microbe interactions, biocontrol of fungal pathogens, development of bioinoculants for agricultural crops, and basic research on microbial diversity of extreme environments. In these research areas has published 80 scientific publications with more than 4000 citations and a h-factor 29. In the Academy, He has supervised more than 30 doctoral, master and undergrad thesis. Dr. Santoyo is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the National Research System (SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico.