Phytomicrobiome Interactions and Sustainable Agriculture. Группа авторов

Phytomicrobiome Interactions and Sustainable Agriculture - Группа авторов


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in both positive and negative manners. Therefore, the microorganisms and the technologies based on the microbial processes find many useful applications in the sustainable development of environment, energy, health, and agriculture. The improvements in crop productivity and management of plant diseases require a good understanding of the interactions between microorganisms with different parts of the plants. The plant–microbiome interaction denotes the genome of all the microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, living in and on various parts of plants. In recent times, significant technological progress has been made to improve our understanding of the plant‐microbiome or phytomicrobiome interactions. In order to make agriculture sustainable, it is indeed necessary to learn about various concepts and advances in this field.

      This book includes a discussion on some basic concepts, including rhizosphere and phyllospheremicrobiome, analysis of root exudates, role of phytomicrobiome in biotic and abiotic stress management, etc. The book also covers advanced information about metagenomics and proteomics studies in relation to plant microbial community analysis. Modern sustainable practices, including rhizosphere engineering, have also been touched upon.

      After numerous deliberations, we came up with the idea to explore the possibility of developing a book on phytomicrobiome interactions and sustainable agriculture. We had in our mind to develop a book that will be beneficial for teachers and students, as well as researchers. Therefore, we invited a variety of researchers and convinced them to contribute the chapters for this book.

      We are thankful to our family, friends, students, teachers, and mentors who acted as a source of inspiration to us. At this point we must appreciate the kind gesture of the entire Wiley team, especially Rebecca Ralf (Commissioning Editor), Athira Menon (Project Editor), and Kerry Powell (Managing Editor) who gave us support and showed trust in our capabilities. They generously extended the book timelines in the hard times of the COVID‐19 pandemic and kept supporting us continuously, and as a result, we were able to complete this book in its present form.

      We dedicate this book to all the persons who are directly or indirectly serving the people affected by COVID‐19.

       Amit Verma

       Jitendra Kumar Saini

       Abd El‐Latif Hesham

       Harikesh Bahadur Singh

      India, July 2020

      Dr. Amit Verma is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, S D Agricultural University, India. He worked under Dr. D.N. Kamra, National Professor, ICAR, India as Research Associate in the Department of Animal Nutrition, IVRI, Bareilly India and studied different aspects of Rumen enzymology. He received his doctorate from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, and investigated the different industrial applications of the Keratinase enzyme. He was awarded with the University Merit Scholarship and CSIR‐JRF, CSIR, India during his doctorate. He qualified for examinations, such as GATE, ICMR JRF, ICAR SRF and ASRB NET. He has keen interest in the field of microbial biotechnology and plant–microbe interactions. His current work is focused on the rhizosphere metabolite investigation of arid plants and phytomicrobiome composition of castor crops under biotic stress. He is a member of many national and international professional bodies. He has written more than 25 research and review articles in reputed peer‐reviewed journals along with 3 books, 15 book chapters, and more than 15 conference proceedings. He also received a Young Scientist Award from the VIRA foundation, India. He also serves as regular reviewer for international reputed journals with high‐impact factors such as (i) Scientific Reports (Impact factor 4.122); (ii) Frontiers in Microbiology (Impact factor 4.019); (iii) Frontiers in Plant Science (Impact factor 3.678); (iv) PLOS ONE (Impact factor 2.77); (v) Protoplasma (Impact factor 2.8).

      Abd El‐Latif Hesham is the Professor of Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta‐Genome Biotechnology, Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Beni‐Suef University, Egypt. He also served as the Professor of Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta‐Genome Biotechnology in the Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt. He graduated and got his M.Sc. from the Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt, and his PhD degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta‐Genome Biotechnology. He has been awarded postdoctoral studies from CAS‐TWAS. He is an expert in microbial genetics and biotechnology, biodegradation, bioremediation and phytoremediation, microbial community structure, soil microbiology and enzyme activities, biological control, antimicrobial activates, biofertilizer, biofuels, and environmental meta‐genome biotechnology. He has authored more than 80 peer‐reviewed publications in reputed Thomson Reuters high‐impact factor journals and one book and seven book chapters in internationally reputed publishers like Elsevier, Springer‐Nature, Taylor & Francis, and John Wiley & Sons. He is a key person in many national and international research projects related to field of microbial genetics and applied biotechnology. He has been a scientific and organizing committee member and invited speaker in various international conferences. He is also a recipient of several prestigious national and international awards including most recently, being named a member of the Egyptian National Biotechnology Network of Expertise (NBNE) and Academy of Scientific Research & Technology (ASRT), and has been appointed as the Country Representative for Egypt and the Arab Counties by the International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation Society (IBBS) UK, which belongs to the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS). He is an associate editor and editorial board member for journals, such as (i) Scientific Reports, (ii) Frontiers in Microbiology, (iii) Current Bioinformatics, (iv) PeerJ, (v) All Life Journal, (vi) International Journal of Agriculture & Biology, (vii) Journal of Environmental Biology,


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