This review of recent developments in our understanding of the role of microbes in
sustainable agriculture and biotechnology covers a research area with enormous untapped …

New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Microbes in
Soil, Crop and Environmental Sustainability reviews the exploitation of microbial biodiversity …

Microbial biotechnology is an emerging field with greater applications in diverse sectors
involving food security, human nutrition, plant protection, and overall basic research in the …

Continuous decline of earth's natural resources and increased use of hazardous chemical
fertilizers pose a great concern for the future of agriculture. Biofertilizers are a promising …

Biofertilizers are defined as living cells with efficient strains of microorganisms that help crop
plant uptake of nutrients by rhizosphere soil when applied through soil. Certain microbial …

The dramatic increase in the use of chemical fertilizers for achieving optimum yields has
become an integral component of present day agricultural practices. The frequent and …

It has been estimated that a typical gram of soil contains around 90–100 million bacteria and
about 200000 fungi, with the majority of these organisms being located around the roots of …

Microorganisms that sustain the fertility of soils, resulting in improved plant nutrition, have
continued to magnetize attention because of the increasing cost of agricultural inputs and …

The soil, the soil rhizophere, and the rhizoplane are marvelously complex and scientifically
interesting ecosystems. The number of microorganisms found in these environments is …

The host-microbe interaction established through natural evolution in plants sets the basis of
plant growth and productivity benefits from a single microbe or a consortium. Select algal …