Rhizosphere Microbes: Biotic Stress Management

This edited book volume aims to bringing out a comprehensive collection  of latest information and developments on the management of biotic  stresses by the use of rhizospheric microbes across the globe. The main  focus of this book is to address the scientific and practical  significance of rhizosphere microbes in biotic stress management. The  microbial communities in the rhizosphere ecosystem play multitude of  microbe-microbe, microbe-insect/pest and plant-microbe interactions and  they have not yet been fully exploited to gain benefits in this field as  well as to achieve sustainability in agriculture. Among the more recent  strategies, stress tolerance/resistance induced by environment-friendly  elicitors of microbial origin and/or rhizosphere microorganisms has  emerged as a promising supplement in the approaches to crop protection.  The proposed book entitled "Rhizosphere Microbes: Biotic Stress  Management” is pertinent to rhizospheric microbe-mediated biotic stress  management covering all spheres of biotic stress tolerance viz.,  bio-resources, diversity, ecology, and functioning of microbial  bio-control agents, host–parasite interaction, strategies to  characterize microbial bioinoculants, interactions of rhizosphere  microbes by developing a fundamental understanding of the microbial  communities, exploration of the diverse roles of microbes and microbial  communities and their role in biotic stress tolerance, microbe-mediated  mitigation of biotic stresses, quorum sensing, microbial signalling and  cross-talk in the rhizosphere, biofilm formation, cell-to-cell  communication, role of microorganisms in ecosystems functioning under  various biotic stress conditions, application of microbial  bio-pesticides, molecular studies using microbial systems, etc. This  book is of interest to teachers, researchers, crop protection  scientists, capacity builders and policymakers. Also the book serves as  additional reading material for under-graduate, post-graduate, and  post-doctorate fellow of agriculture, forestry, ecology, life science,  and environmental sciences. National and international agricultural  scientists, policy makers will also find this to be a useful read.