Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic claims and illustrates that technologies command communicative agency; vary in the degrees to which they invite mass communication about themselves; and remain relatively immune, amenable, or vulnerable to particular kinds of mass communication more than others. It contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis-a-vis technology--if in part because it frequently coextends with a flawed, but dominant, notion of science that presumptuously implicates technology anyway. Piyush Mathur grapples...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship between microbial symbionts and plants in the era of climate change. It focuses on the plant microbiome associated with different plant organs like roots, leaves, stems, fruit, and seeds, and showcases their significant role in the enhancement of crop yield and protection in a sustainable manner. Concomitantly, acumens to the most emerging trends in plant microbial research that includes rhizosphere engineering and metagenomics are also covered in this title. The association of microbial symbionts with the host...