Microbiomes and Plant Health Panoply and Their Applications

PART ONE: Introduction Part

1. Emerging insights on the potential role of plant-associatedmicroorganisms in sustainable agriculture

2. Application of cereal and vegetable endophytes in plant health management

3. Plant virome: current understanding, mechanisms, and role in phytobiome

PART TWO: Methodological Sections

4. Modern biotechnological tools: an opportunity to discover complex phytobiomes of horticulture crops

5. Genome mapping tools: current research and future prospects

PART III: Scientific chapters

6. Mycorrhizal fungi and its importance in plant health amelioration7. Sugarcane microbiome: role in sustainable production

8. Preface of phytobiome in nutrient recycling, biogeochemistry, and spatial dynamics

9. Maize microbiome: current insights for the sustainable agriculture

PART IV: General Sections

10. Phytobiomes and bioremediation

11. Modern era of microbial biotechnology: opportunities and future prospects

12. Phyllosphere microbiome: modern prospectus and application

13. Microbial linkages in the heavy metal remediation14. Actinobacteria interventions in plant and environment fitness15. Microbiomes in some cereal crops: diversity and their role in geochemical nutrient recycling

Plant and soil microbiologists, agronomists, researchers interested in sustainable forestry and agriculture practices

Manoj Kumar Solanki is currently employed as a scientist in the Institute of Biology, Biotechnology, and Environment Protection of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. In 2006, he received his master’s degree in microbiology from Barkatullah University, and in 2013, he received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Rani Durgawati University in India. He also served as a research associate in a DBTfunded project at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India. He received a visiting scientist fellowship from the Guangxi Academy of Agriculture Sciences in China from 2013 to 2015, as well as a visiting scientist fellowship from the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization in Israel from 2016 to 2020. He has been involved in numerous research activities on plants-microbes interaction, soil microbiology, plant disease management, enzymology, and microbial genome analysis during his research career, and has published a number of publications in prestigious peer-reviewed international journals and books. He is also expanding his knowledge of agriculturally significant microorganisms, with a focus on soil and crop health management, among other things as well as worked as associate/guest editor for various journals and has sound expertise in editing books and reviewing articles.

• Offers readers a one-stop resource on the topic of plant and soil microbiome and their applications in plant disease, sustainable agriculture, soil health and medicinal plants
• Addresses the role of phytobiome to combat biotic and abiotic factors
• Emphasizes the use of modern molecular tools such as smart delivery systems for microbial inoculation, next-generation sequencing and genome mapping