Microbial Biostimulants for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Bioremediation

Today, the agriculture industry is confronted with simultaneous issues in terms of how to fully embrace mass production of safer food in terms of both quality and quantity. Most industries are concerned with avoiding significant levels of soil pollution and environmental threats as a result of the excessive and harmful use of synthetic-based products on crops. Therefore, there is a need to adopt sustainable technological innovations that could ensure the sustainability of agricultural production systems.

Microbial Biostimulants for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Bioremediation discusses the benefits, challenges and practical application of ecofriendly biotechnological techniques using biostimulants derived from beneficial microorganisms. Chapters cover the use of these organisms to increase crop production, enhance soil fertility and maintain soil health, create crop and plant tolerance to different abiotic stressors, release required nutrients to soil, increase resistance to plant pathogens/pests, improve nutrient-use efficiency of crops, and result in rejuvenation of polluted environments.

Key Features:

Explores the physiological, morpho-anatomical, biochemical molecular plant rejoinders involved in stimulating crop productivity

Provides information on the physiological, cellular, molecular, modes of action underlying microbial-biostimulant interfaces.

Summarizes methods and approaches for executing microbial stimulant technology.

Outlines numerous environmental management and remediation strategies.

This is an ideal resource for researchers, engineers and academics working in soil science, crop science, water remediation, microbiology and biotechnology.