Advances in Plant-Microbe Interaction for Restoring Environmental Health

1.     Sustainable Farming by Enhancing Beneficial Microbes in the Era of Climate Change

R.Y. Hiranmai

2.     Plant-Microbe Interaction for Promoting Plant Growth and Productivity

Syed Hadi Abdul Rouf, Niraj Singh

3.     Bio-inputs for Sustainable Agro-industrial Processes: Microbial Biofertilizers

Alane Beatriz Vermelho, Felipe R. P. Mansoldo e Jean Vinícius Moreira

4.     Plant-Microbe Partnership: Fostering Soil Carbon Sequestration for Sustainable Land Management

Rahila Rahman Khan, Amina Jafri, Shweta Yadav, Rushda Sharf

5.   Rhizosphere Microbes as Sustainable Source for Improving Soil and Plant Quality Under Heavy Metal and Salinity Stress

Tannu Khatnani, Parul Vats, R Y Hiranmai, Ajay Neeraj

6.     Bacillus sp. Applications for Managing Biotic Stress

Aurelio Ortiz, Estibaliz Sansinenea

7.     Bioremediation: A Promising Technique for Amelioration of Co-contaminated Sites, Recent Advancements and Challenges

Arpna Ratnakar, Neha Jaiswal, Archana Dwivedi

8.   Trichoderma-Assisted Restoration of Contaminated Agro Environments for Enhancing Food Production

 Rajani Srivastava, Tapshya Dev, Smriti Suman, Gauri Sukare

9.   The Green Alliance of Mangroves: Pseudomonas sp. and Plants in the Fight Against Pollution in Coastal Environments 

Guadalupe del Carmen Cornelio Torres, Amado Mariano Flores, Ángel Sol Sánchez, Daniel Alejandro Ayala Romero, Gloria Isela Hernández Melchor

10.  Advances in the Association of Flora and the Microorganism for an Ecosystems Restoration                          

Shweta Yadav, Rahila Rahman Khan, Amina Jafri, Fatima Baba Ali

11.  Metagenomics: A Promising Tool to Explore Microbial Community Composition and Diversity in Various Environments, including Plant-Microbe Interactions

Dipti, Ram Naresh Bhargava, Sneh Lata

12.  Harnessing Root Exudates in Restoring Agro-ecosystems and Mitigating Heavy Metals Contamination

Sneh Lata, Rubee Lata, Dipti

13.  Relationship of Water Availability with the Growth of Brizals in White Mangroves in Tabasco, México

Ángel Sol Sánchez, Baltazar sanchez Diaz, Juan Manuel Zaldívar Cruz, Gloria Isela Hernandez Melchor

14.  Role of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) in Sustainable Agriculture

Suchi Singh, Vijai Krishna

15.  Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interaction for Sustainable Crop Production and Economic Benefits to Farmers

Roli Mishra, Shubham Abhishek

16.  Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) in Phytoremediation of Soil Contaminated with Heavy Metal and Plant Disease Control Management

Divya Singh, Kumari Nivedita, Anita Rani, Kuldeep Bauddh

Biography

Dr. Kuldeep Bauddh is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, RGSC, Banaras Hindu University, U.P., India. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, UP, India in 2014. Dr. Bauddh is currently engaged in teaching the thrust areas of environmental sciences like Environmental Pollution and Management, Environmental Toxicology, Hazardous Waste Management etc. His main research areas are phytoremediation, restoration of contaminated sites and environmental sustainability. He has published ten Books (Edited) Elsevier, Springer Nature and CRC Press. He published 68 research papers in national and international journals and 35 book chapters. Dr. Bauddh is Section Editor (Biodegradation, Bioremediation and Waste Management) of the journal Environmental Sustainability publishing with Springer Nature.

Dr. Swati Sachdev is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Department of Liberal Education, Era University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, U. P., India, in 2019. She has worked on biological approaches for management of plant pathogens to reduce disease severity and improve plant productivity. Her expertise and research interest areas are sustainable agriculture, plant-microbe interaction, plant-stress management, and bioremediation. She has more than six years of research and four years of teaching experience. She has published 15 research articles, 01 Authored book, and 17 book chapters. She was a gold medalist in Post-Graduate program (2007-2009) and awarded University Grant Commission-Junior Research Fellowship (UGC-JRF) in 2013.

Dr. Chetan Keswani is a Group Leader in the Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He has keen interest in regulatory, commercialization and intellectual property aspects of agriculturally important microorganisms in Asia. He is an elected Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London, UK and received Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Uttar Pradesh Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India in 2015. He is an editorial board member of several reputed agricultural microbiology journals and has edited ten books on the subject. For his editorial endeavors he was awarded the Publons Top Peer Review Award in Agricultural Sciences (2018), Outstanding Editor Award (2019) by Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection, Taylor and Francis, and Springer-Society Award (2020) for excellent contribution to the journal Environmental Sustainability, Springer-Nature. In addition, he has been listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists for the years 2021-24 (Sub-fields: Plant Biology & Botany and Biotechnology).