Overview
- Identifies and introduces actinomycetes as a potential plant growth promoting agent
- Presents comprehensive information on combination of plant growth promoting bacteria actinomycetes and grain legumes
- Provides help to the researchers to explore the potentials of plant growth promoting actinomycetes for increasing the productivity of grain legumes
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Global yields of legumes have been relatively stagnant for the last five decades, despite the adoption of conventional and molecular breeding approaches. The use of plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria for improving agricultural production, soil and plant health has become one of the most attractive strategies for developing sustainable agriculture. Actinomycetes are bacteria that play an important role in PGP and plant protection, produce secondary metabolites of commercial interest, and their use is well documented in wheat, rice, beans, chickpeas and peas. In order to promote legumes, the general assembly of the UN recently declared 2016 the “International Year of Pulses.” In view of this development, this book illustrates how PGP actinomycetes can improve grain yield and soil fertility, improve control of insect pests and phytopathogens, and enhance host-plant resistance. It also addresses special topics of current interest, e.g. the role of PGP actinomycetes in the biofortification of legume seeds and bioremediation of heavy metals.
Reviews
“This work focuses on actinobacteria in soil microbiota and their role in crop production, generally pulse crops such as peas and beans. … Chapters show a consistency of style and format, all with meaningfully titled short subsections, frequent inclusion of tables, extensive cited reference … . This work is strongly recommended for institutions with programs in agriculture, especially those with research soil science or legume cultivation. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty; professionals.” (J. Cummings, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
His publications are:
1. Gopalakrishnan S, Srinivas V, Alekhya G, Prakash B, Kudapa H and Varshney RK (2015). Evaluation of Streptomyces sp. obtained from herbal vermicompost for broad spectrum of plant growth-promoting activities in chickpea. Organic Agriculture DOI 10.1007/s13165-0099-1.
2. Gopalakrishnan S, Srinivas V, Alekhya G and Prakash B (2015). Effect of plant growth-promoting Streptomyces sp. on growth promotion and grain yield in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). 3Biotech DOI 10.1007/s13205-015-0283-8.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Growth Promoting Actinobacteria
Book Subtitle: A New Avenue for Enhancing the Productivity and Soil Fertility of Grain Legumes
Editors: Gopalakrishnan Subramaniam, Sathya Arumugam, Vijayabharathi Rajendran
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0707-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0705-7Published: 13 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9231-2Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0707-1Published: 02 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Plant Biochemistry, Applied Microbiology