Microbial Biodiversity in Sustainable Agriculture

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"The present book Microbial Biodiversity in Sustainable Agriculture covering the all the information’s on area of macro and microorganisms. It mainly includes bio-fertilizers, sustainable plant diseases management, soil fertility, bio-control of insect pests, mycotoxin, and PGPR. This will provide an agricultural sustainability in basic and applied research related to plant and microbes. The manuscripts of this book are mostly invited ones from the eminent academicians from various scientists, teachers, researchers of Renounces University and Institutions. This Microbial Biodiversity in Sustainable Agriculture is intended for the undergraduate post graduate research scholars senior research fellow, and research associate in agriculture, biotechnology, botany, microbiology, home sciences, food sciences, horticulture and forestry".

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Cyanobacterial diazotrophs and their mutants in natural and artificial symbioses/A. Vaishampayan, Shobhit Kumar Singh and Dhirendra Kumar Singh. 2. Arbuscular mycorrhiza: a versatile component in agro-ecological matrix/Sumita Pal, Amitava Rakshit and H.B. Singh. 3. Microorganisms and soil fertility/Ramawatar Meena. 4. Sclerotinia stem rot of Rajmash and its management/Ram Palat, Ramesh Singh, N.S. Sachan and P.C. Singh. 5. Disease management: biological control/Rajesh Kumar Meena and Surendra Singh. 6. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria PGPR for disease management in plants/Shyam Singh, R.C. Shakywar, H.K. Singh and O.N. Verma. 7. Mycotoxins and its harmful effects on food/Deepika Baranwal, Suresh Chand Meena and Vinod Kumar. 8. Role of bio-control agents against red rot disease of sugarcane/Seweta Srivastava, Gorakh Nath Gupta, Sobhit Kumar Singh and Asha Sinha. 9. Phenotype and molecular approaches to evaluate diversity of lactic acid bacteria and its importance/Yogesh Franklin, Shikha Jain and Dinesh K. Kumawat. 10. Role of arbuscular mycorrhiza in agriculture/Chandar Kala, Ashok Kumar Meena and S.L. Godara. 11. Metagenomics and complementary approaches for the study of microbial communities/Dinesh Chandra, Suresh Chand Meena, A. Chattopadhyay and Vinod Saharan. 12. Alternaria blight of tomato and its management/P.C. Singh, Ramesh Singh and D. Kumar. 13. Biodiversity of microorganism in different area and its ecological importance/Shika Jain, Yogesh Franklin, Dinesh K. Kumawat and B.M. Meena. 14. Molecular disease diagnosis through reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction/Sushreeta Naik and M.K. Yadav. 15. Managing chickpea diseases through applications of population genetics/H.K. Singh, R.B. Singh and Kamlesh Kumar….

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ram Chandra

Dr. Ram Chandra did his Graduation in Engineering from M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur in 1959, and M.E. 1970 in Structural Engineering in Honours Division. He got his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Roorkee, (Indian Institute of Technology) Roorkee in 1984. Joined as Lecturer in Civil Engineering M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur in December 1961. Selected as reader in Structural Engineering in August, 1965 and became Professor and Head of Department in Structural Engineering in 1984 and 1990. Dr. Chandra has published two papers in International Journal (ASCE, New York) in April, 1990. Three papers in National Journals (Institution of Engineers, India), July 1971 and Indian Engineer June, 1970 and August, 1970. Six papers in Conferences/National Seminars (two-papers at Roorkee, 1979 and 1993) one paper at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 1984 and three papers at J.N.V. University, Jodhpur (2002, 2005). Dr. Chandra is the author of six reputed books being studied and referred by students, teachers, research scholars and design engineers alike not only through-out India but in foreign countries also. He has taught various subjects of Civil Engineering specially Steel Structres, Concrete Structures, Computer Programming and Engineering Mechanics to the students of graduate and post-graduate studies.