Principles of Plant-Microbe Interactions: Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture/

Principles of Plant-Microbe Interactions: Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture/ edited by Ben Lugtenberg - New York: Springer, 2015. - XXIV,448 p. 24 cm.

1. Introduction to Plant-Microbe Interactions --
Part I. Introductory Chapters --
2. The Importance of Microbiology in Sustainable Agriculture --
3. Life of Microbes in the Rhizosphere --
4. Life of Microbes on Aerial Plant Parts --
5. Life of Microbes Inside the Plant --
6. Microbial Cell Surfaces and Secretion Systems --
7. Microbial Biofilms and Quorum Sensing --
8. Bacterial Volatiles as Airborne Signals for Plants and Bacteria --
Part II. Phytopathogens and Pest Insects --
9. Phytopathogenic Bacteria --
10. Plant Pathogenic Fungi and Oomycetes --
11. Phytopathogenic Nematodes --
12. Herbivorous Insects --
a Threat for Crop Production --
13. Phytopathogenic Viruses --
14. Induced Disease Resistance --
15. Apologies to the Planet – Can we Restore the Damage? --
16. Will the Public ever Accept Genetically Engineered Plants? --
Part III. Control of Plant Diseases and Pests using Beneficial Microbes --
17. Microbial Control of Phytopathogenic Nematodes --
18. Microbial Control of Root-Pathogenic Fungi and Oomycetes --
19. Control of Insect Pests by Entomopathogenic Nematodes --
20. Bacillus thuringiensis-based Products for Insect Pest Control --
21. Post Harvest Control --
Part IV. Plant Growth Promotion by Microbes --
22. The Nitrogen Cycle --
23. Biological Nitrogen Fixation --
24. Phosphate Mobilisation by Soil Microorganisms --
25. Arbuscular Mycorrhizas: the Lives of Beneficial Fungi and their Plant Host --
26. Plant Hormones Produced by Microbes --
27. Stress Control and ACC Deaminase --
28. Plant-Microbe Interactions and Water Management in Arid and Saline Soils --
29. Rhizoremediation --
Part V. Important Technologies --
30. Microbial Communities in the Rhizosphere Analyzed by Cultivation-independent; DNA-based Methods --
31. Visualization of Plant-Microbe Interactions --
Part VI. Products for Plant Growth-promotion and Disease Suppression --
32. Commercialisation of Microbes: Present Situation and Future Prospects --
33. Commercialization of Microbes: Manufacturing, Inoculation, Best Practice for Objective Field Testing, and Registration --
34. Towards a New Generation of Commercial Microbial Disease Control and Plant -Growth Promotion Products --
35. Important Organizations and Companies --
Part VII. Paradigms in Plant-Microbe Interactions --
36. Trichoderma: a Multi-Purpose Tool for Integrated Pest Management --
37. Agrobacterium, the Genetic Engineer --
38. Take-All Decline and Beneficial Pseudomonads --
39. The Oomycete Phytophthora infestans, the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen --
40. Bacillus, a Plant-Beneficial Bacterium; Rainer Borriss --
41. Soybean Production in the Americas --
Part VIII. Future Prospects and Dreams --
42. Exploring the Feasibility of Transferring Nitrogen Fixation to Cereal Crops --
43. The Minimal Rhizosphere Microbiome --
44. The Edible Plant Microbiome: Importance and Health Issues --
45. From Nodulation to Antibiotics.

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