Name: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi as Plant Biostimulants for Sustainable Agriculture
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi as Plant Biostimulants for Sustainable Agriculture

Edited By: Arvind Kumar Rai, Priyanka Chandra, Nirmalendu Basak, Parul Sundha, Rajender Kumar Yadav

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This book studies arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), a plant biostimulant key for future sustainable agriculture. AMF form symbiotic relations with plants, enhancing nutrient intake, boosting immunity against stress, and improving crop productivity.

Global agriculture production systems are confronted with difficulties due to increased food demand, rising hunger and malnutrition, negative climate change effects, and overuse of natural…

Global agriculture production systems are confronted with difficulties due to increased food demand, rising hunger and malnutrition, negative climate change effects, and overuse of natural resources. According to the FAO’s definition of sustainable food and agriculture, agricultural strategies should support technologies that increase output without having a negative impact on biodiversity or natural resources, while also boosting productivity. A plant’s biostimulants are natural products which stimulate a plant’s nutrition and productivity through enhancing nutrient use efficiency, tolerance to abiotic stress and quality traits. The present book studies arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), a plant biostimulant which forms symbiotic relations with plants, having a significant impact on performance and nutrition, particularly regarding plant mineral intake capacity. AMF, through several mechanisms in plants, can boost immunity against biotic and abiotic stresses. Exploitation of AMF to improve crop productivity will be the key for future sustainable agriculture.

Arvind Kumar Rai is presently Head of Soil and Crop Management Division, at ICAR–Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, India. His research work is on reclamation and rehabilitation of alkali soil with different mineral, chemical and biological amendments; alternative techniques for use of poor-quality water through chemical and biological approaches; and improved management practices for use of saline water in salt affected soils of semiarid regions.

Priyanka Chandra is a scientist in the field of Agricultural microbiology at ICAR. Currently, her research is focused on native mycorrhiza of salt affected soils and their assessment for improving P nutrition under salt stress.

Nirmalendu Basak is Scientist in Soil Science at ICAR–Central Soil Salinity Research Institute (CSSRI), Karnal, Haryana, India. He is engaged in research work: reclamation and rehabilitation of alkali soil with different mineral, chemical and biological amendments

Parul Sundha is presently working as scientist at ICAR–CSSRI. She is working on the reclamation and rehabilitation of sodic soils with different organic and chemical amendments and their ecotoxicological impacts.

Dr R. K. Yadav is presently Director at ICAR–CSSRI. He is engaged in research of characterization and classification of salt affected soils and poor-quality water for their productive utilization in agriculture.

Harshpreet Kaur, Sandeep Bedwal, Priyanka Chandra, Arvind Kumar Rai, Nirmalendu Basak, Aman Kumar, Prashantkumar S. Hanjagi, Sushma M. Awaji, Gund Suraj Nivarutti, K.S.Vidhya Bharathi, R G Vyshnavi, Priyanka ., Rinki ., Vanita Pandey, Mamrutha HM, Pooja ., Vijeta Sagwal, Ankush ., Preety Rani, Zeenat Wadhwa, Gopalareddy K., Yogesh Kumar, Anwesha Bandyopadhyay, Nittan Sharma, Chandresh Kumari, Hiral Khistaria, Tarul Pal, Shruti Kaushik, Alok Ranjan, Sunita Devi, Anmol Sidhu, Sujata Yadav, Annu Dahiya, Anita Mann, Arvind Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Archana Watts, Anshul Watts, Yvonne Angel Lyngdoh, Shruti Sinha, Shaon Kumar Das, Sita Kumari Prasad, Piu Basak, Pooja Dhuli, Anu Sehrawat, Sunanda Biswas, Bikramjit Mandal, Saloni Tripathy, Suman Kumar Surendra, Priya Singh, Shrila Das, Nadia Chowhan, Devika Sellathdurai, Parvender Sheoran, Megha Panwar, Anand Prabha Rawat, Syed Nyamath, Sai Aparna Devi Nunna, Segireddygari Dilip Kumar Reddy, Bhayyareddy Jayasree, Abhinandan Yadav, Sneh Yadav, Pankaj Kumar Yadav, Sachi Gupta, Himani Panwar, Harshita Vashistha, Himalaya Panwar, Prashant Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Akhilesh Chandrapati, Seweta Srivastava, Meenakshi Rana, Rajender Kumar Yadav