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<div>1. Changes in phytochemicals in response to rhizospheric microorganisms infection<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mehrnaz Hatami, Mansour Ghorbanpour</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>2. Bacillus-mediated induced systemic resistance (ISR) against Fusarium corm rot</div><div><br></div><div>Shanu Magotra, Deepika Trakroo, Sneha Ganjoo and Jyoti Vakhlu</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>3. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria: key mechanisms of action</div><div><br></div><div>Márcia do Vale Barreto Figueiredo, Aurenívia Bonifacio, Artenisa Cerqueira Rodrigues, Fabio Fernando de Araujo</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>4. Priming of plant defense and plant growth in disease challenged crops using microbial consortia</div><div><br></div><div>Murugan Kumar, Nanjappan Karthikeyan, and Radha Prasanna</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>5. Seed priming mediated induced disease resistance in arid zone plants</div><div><br></div><div>Rakesh Pathak, Praveen Gehlot and S.K. Singh</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>6. Trichoderma secondary metabolites: their biochemistry and possible role in disease management</div><div><br></div><div>Anita Surendra Patil, Surendra Rajaram Patil and Hariprasad Madhukarrao Paikrao</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>7. Induced systemic resistance in rice</div><div><br></div><div>Kalaivani K. Nadarajah</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>8. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria mediated acquired systemic resistance in plants against pests and diseases</div><div><br></div><div>S.K. Singh, Rakesh Pathak and Vipin Chaudhary</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>9. Acyl homoserine lactone producing rhizobacteria-elicit systemic resistance in plants</div><div><br></div><div>Ganga Viswanath, Jegan Sekar, and V.R. Prabhavathy</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>10.Biological Control of chickpea Fusarium wilt using rhizobacteria “PGPR”</div><div><br></div><div>Souad Zaim, Lakhdar Belabid, Bassam Bayaa</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>11. AM fungal effect on the growth of selective dicot and monocot plants</div><div><br></div><div>B. Sadhana*, P. K. Monica and S. Siva Sankari</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>12. Trichoderma spp.: Efficient Inducers of Systemic Resistance in Plants</div><div><br></div><div>Kartikay Bisen, Chetan Keswani, J. S. Patel, B. K. Sarma, H. B. Singh</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>13. Induced systemic resistance by rhizospehric microbes</div><div><br></div><div>Manoj Kumar, Priyanku Teotia, Ajit Varma, Narendra Tuteja, and Vivek Kumar</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>14. Combinations of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for initiation of systemic resistance against tree diseases&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Vivek Kumar, Ajit Varma Narendra Tuteja and Manoj Kumar</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>15. Plant growth promoting microbial-mediated induced systemic resistance in plants: induction, mechanism and expression&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Shekhar Jain, Ajit Varma, Narendra Tuteja, D.K. Choudhary</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>

<p><b>Dr. Devendra K. Choudhary</b></p><p>Dr. Choudhary has over fourteen years of experience in Microbial
Ecology and is currently
working as an Assistant Professor-Grade III at Amity University, Noida. Before joining
Amity University, Dr. Choudhary spent several years at Mody University, Lakshmangarh, as an Assistant Professor, preceded by work at Peoples
and Barkatullah University, Bhopal as a Lecturer cum scientist. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dr. Choudhary received his PhD in Microbiology in 2005 from GB Pant
University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, after having received his MSc in Microbiology
from MDS University, Ajmer and qualifying
CSIR-UGC-NET in 2002. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>Dr. Choudhary has worked on GOI sponsored
major projects as Principle Investigator (PI). Recently he worked on the DST FAST-TRACK project at the Department of
Biotechnology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, along with two major projects by
DBT and SERB, at Amity
University until the year 2015. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As an active researcher, Dr Choudhary has published research and review
articles along with several book chapters for reputed journals and edited books.
In addition, he has served as
PhD supervisor/co-supervisor for several research scholars. Dr Choudhary is a recipient of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) visiting
and summer research fellowship 2014. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>

















</p><p>Further,
one of his PhD students
received the 2013 Dr RS
Rana Memorial best research award, sponsored by the Association of Microbiologists of India.&nbsp; Under supervision of Dr Choudhary his
scientific team has assigned two accession numbers from MTCC, IMTECH for
submitted bacterial cultures (MTCC, 12057 & 12058) along with one MCC no
2607. Most recently,
his team has filed three patents with the India Patent Office, New Delhi and others are in progress.</p><p><br></p><p><b>Prof. Dr. Ajit Varma</b></p>Dr. Varma completed his M.Sc. (1959) & Ph.D.
(1964) degrees at
Allahabad University, Allahabad, India. In the course of his professional career, he has
also served as a Microbiologist
(Assistant Professor), IARI, New Delhi (1963-1971), Senior Microbiologist
(Associate Professor), IARI, New Delhi (1971-1974), Associate Professor, JNU,
New Delhi (1975-1984), and Professor, JNU, New Delhi (1985-2004). He has been a
visiting professor & visiting research scientist at the Technical University, Graz (Austria),
University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen (Germany), Friedrich Schiller University,
Jena (Germany), Philipps University, Marburg (Germany), Technical University, Munich (Germany), Kingston (Jamaica), Max Planck
Visiting Professorship (Germany), Helmholtz Zentrum, Muenchen (Germany),
Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany), CSIC, Madrid (Spain), University of
Dundee (Scotland), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and ICGEB (Italy).</p><p>His
international awards/fellowships include the Commonwealth Fellowship
(Australia), National Research Council (Canada), Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation (Germany), National Science Foundation (USA), Indo-Czechoslovakia
Exchange Programme (Prague), DAAD Fellowship (Germany), and the Deutsches BMFT Programme, George-August
University, Gottingen (Germany), RAISA.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>He was awarded a fellowship for Innovative Research in
Biotechnology (Italy), Swiss Federal Research Fellowship (Switzerland), the BP Koirala award (Nepal)
and DFG-INSA Fellowship (Indo- Germany), as well as the FAMI Award - Association of
Microbiologists of India and Honorary Diploma, UMF, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Dr.
Varma has supervised 60 PhD students.
He has published over 290 research articles for national and international journals of repute, as well as several major
review articles and chapters in books. He has published 50 books in the area of Microbial Technology,
published by Academic Press, London, CRC Press, Florida, USA, IDRC, Canada and
Springer-Verlag, Germany. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dr.
Varma has been the series editor for Springer-Verlag’s
Series on Soil Biology, and
has edited fifty volumes on Soil Biology. He was also nominated as Editor-in-Chief by IK
Internationals to make series of books on Microbial and Biotechnological
Research. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>















</p><p>Dr. Varma has been a member of the National Academy of
Agriculture Sciences, International Society of Symbiosis, Boston, USA, Indian
Science Congress Association, Executive Council, Amity University Uttar
Pradesh, University Research Council, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Academic
Council, Amity University Rajasthan, ASSOCHAM Knowledge Millennium Council,
ASSOCHAM Expert Committee on Agriculture and Food Processing, and ASSOCHAM Expert Committee
on S&T and Innovation. He has
vast experience in organizing national and international training
workshops/symposia and congresses.</p>

<p>With a focus on food safety, this book&nbsp;highlights&nbsp;the&nbsp;importance of microbes in sustainable agriculture.&nbsp;Plants, sessile organisms that are considered&nbsp;as primary producers in&nbsp;the ecosystem and communicate with above- and below-ground communities that consist of microbes, insects, and other vertebrate and invertebrate animals,&nbsp;are subjected to various kinds of stress. Broadly speaking, these can be subdivided into abiotic and biotic stresses.Plants have evolved to develop elaborate mechanisms&nbsp;for coping with and adapting to&nbsp;the environmental stresses.<br></p><p>Among other stresses, habitat-imposed biotic stress is one serious condition causing major problems&nbsp;for crop productivity. Most plants&nbsp;employ&nbsp;plant-growth-promoting microorganisms&nbsp;(PGPMs)&nbsp;to combat and protect themselves from stresses and also for better growth.<br></p><p>PGPMs&nbsp;are bacteria associated with plant roots and they augment plant productivityand immunity.&nbsp;They&nbsp;are also defined as root-colonizing bacteria that&nbsp;have&nbsp;beneficial&nbsp;effects&nbsp;on plant growth and development. Remarkably,&nbsp;PGPMs including mycorrhizae, rhizobia, and rhizobacteria (<i>Acinetobacter, Agrobacterium, Arthrobacter, Azospirillum, Bacillus, Bradyrhizobium, Frankia, Pseudomonas, Rhizobium, Serratia, Thiobacillus</i>) form associations with plant roots and can promote plant growth by increasing&nbsp;plants’&nbsp;access to soil mineralsand protecting them against&nbsp;pathogens.</p><p>To combat the pathogens causing different&nbsp;diseases and other biotic stresses, PGPMsproduce&nbsp;a higher level of resistance in addition to&nbsp;plants’&nbsp;indigenous immune systems in the form of induced systemic resistance (ISR).<br></p><p>The ISR elicited&nbsp;by PGPMs has suppressed plant diseases caused by a range of pathogens in both the greenhouse and field.&nbsp;As such,&nbsp;the role of these microbes can no longer be ignored for sustainable agriculture.<br></p><p>Today, PGPMs are also utilized in the form of bio-fertilizers to increase plant productivity. However, the use of PGPMs requires&nbsp;a&nbsp;precise understanding of the interactions&nbsp;between plants and microbes, between microbes and microbiota, and how biotic factors influence these relationships. Consequently, continued research is needed to develop new approaches to&nbsp;boost&nbsp;the efficiency of PGPMs and to understand the ecological, genetic and biochemical relationships in their habitat.<br></p><p>The&nbsp;book focuses on&nbsp;recent research concerning interactions between PGPMs and plants under biotic stress.&nbsp;It addresses key&nbsp;concerns such as –<br></p><p></p><p>1.&nbsp;The&nbsp;response of benign microbes that&nbsp;benefit&nbsp;plants under biotic stress</p><p>2.&nbsp;The&nbsp;physiological changes incurred in plants under harsh conditions</p><p>3.&nbsp;The&nbsp;role of microbial determinants in&nbsp;promoting&nbsp;plant growthunder biotic stress</p><p>The book focuses on a range of aspects related to PGPMs such as&nbsp;their&nbsp;mode of action, priming of plant defence and plant growth in disease challenged crops, multifunctional bio-fertilizers, PGPM-mediated disease suppression, and&nbsp;the&nbsp;effect of PGPMs on secondary metabolites etc.<br></p><p></p><p>The book will be&nbsp;a valuable&nbsp;asset to researchers and professionals working in the area of microbial-mediated&nbsp;support of plants&nbsp;under biotic stress.</p>

Comprehensive account of plant microbe interaction and their response to systemic and induced resistance Elucidates self explanatory illustrations for transporter-mediated microbe-plant interactions Emphasizes biotechnological perspectives of microbes in sustainable agriculture Demonstrates role of microbes in food security