Fungi Bio-Prospects in Sustainable Agriculture, Environment and Nano-Technology: Volume 1: Fungal Diversity of Sustainable Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9780128213940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020

Vijay Kumar Sharma; Maulin P. Shah; Shobhika Parmar

Spis treści

1. Endophytic fungi: A review of survival strategiesthat influence the biodiversity studies associatedwith biopotential products2. Evaluation of phylloplane fungal flora and hostplants in the Southern Western Ghats3. Fungal endophytes from seaweeds and bio-potentialapplications in agriculture4. Fungal endophytes: Entry, establishment,diversity, future prospects in agriculture5. Fungal endophytes, biodiversity and biopotentialapplications6. The role of fungi in abiotic stress tolerance of plants7. Phytopathogenic fungi and their biocontrol applications8. Impact of fungal inoculants on sustainable agriculture9. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi: Potentialrole in sustainable agriculture10. Endophytic fungal diversity of selected medicinalplants and their bio-potential applications11. Prospect of biofuel production by fungus12. Fungal endophytes and their applicationsas growth promoters and biologicalcontrol agents13. Rhizosphere fungi and their plant association:Current and future prospects14. Mycotoxins associated food safety concernsof agricultural crops, prevention and control15. Bioprospection of endophytic fungi associated withethnoveterinary plants for novel metabolites16. Sustainable crop production and improvementthrough bio-prospecting of fungi17. Yeast as plant growth promoter and biocontrol agent18. Phytostimulation and ISR responses of fungi19. Bio-management of Fusarium spp. associatedwith fruit crops

O autorze

Dr.V.K. Sharma has a Ph.D. in Botany from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India. He has more than eleven years of research experience, particularly in the area of endophytes. His research interest is in the bio-potential applications of endophytes and their mechanism. He also has a keen interest in emerging environmental issues and mitigation. He is currently working on the role of fungal endophytes in heavy metal stress tolerance of host plants, and mechanism. Dr. Sharma has more than thirty research articles and book chapters in journals of national and international repute to his credit. He is lifetime member of Mycological Society of India (MSI). He is also the recipient of MJ Thirumalachar Young Scientist Award Lectures by MSI in 2016. He also received Yunnan provincial government funding-II. He has also actively participated in many national and international conferences, symposia and workshops related to his research field Maulin P. Shah is a Microbial Biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependent and cultivation independent analysis. Dr. Parmar has a Ph.D. in Environment Science from from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India. She has more than eight years of research experience, particularly in the area of toxic metal pollution of water bodies and soil, their phytoremediation, bio-prospects of endophytes in host plant growth enhancement and stress tolerance, and the mechanism. She has about 12 publications in journals and edited book of international repute such as Microbial Biotechnology and Elsevier. Recently she was awarded by the Yunnan provincial government, funding-II in China. Dr. Ajay Kumar is a visiting scientist at the Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani center, Rishon Leziyon, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development Israel. He has published extensively in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Microbial biocontrol, and Endophytes related with the medicinal plants, Postharvest management of fruits. Dr. Kumar has published more than 165 research articles including review papers/book chapters/ books in the leading international journals. He is serving as special issue editors in some journals like "Frontiers in Microbiology, Microorganism” etc. In addition also acting as reviewer in some leading journals like Frontiers group, PLOS ONE, Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Biological Control, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 3Biotech etc. Dr, Kumar has edited several books with leading publishers including Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor and Francis.