Product Description: Environmental Stress Conditions in Soybean Production: Soybean Production, Volume Two, examines the impact of conditions on final crop yield and identifies core issues and methods to address concerns. As climate and soil quality changes and issues continue to manifest around the world, methods of ensuring sustainable crop production is imperative...read more

Product Description: The pollution of soil due to chemical compounds released by different human activities is a problem of major concern, worldwide. Unlike the naturally-occurring organic compounds that are easily decomposable upon introduction into the environment some of these synthetic chemicals, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and pesticides are hardly degradable by native soil micro-organisms...read more

Product Description: Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 2: Alleviation of Soil Stress by PGPR and Mycorrhizal Fungi describes the most important details and advances related to the alleviation of soil stresses by PGPR and mycorrhizal fungi...read more

Product Description: The significant role of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi on the alleviation of salinity stress affecting the efficiency of ecosystem has been presented. The fungi are able to alleviate the stress by increasing the uptake of water and nutrients by the host plant, production of different products including plant hormones and interaction with the other soil microbes...read more

Product Description: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are symbiotic to most terrestrial plants. The fungi are an important part of ecosystem affecting its efficiency. Among the most important effects of mycorrhizal fungi on the ecosystem efficiency is by alleviating different stresses such as pathogens, drought, salinity, compaction, etc...read more

Product Description: The effects of soil tillage on the activities of soil microbes can significantly affect the environment and is of ecological and economical significance. Such a subject includes a wide range of details related to the performance of soil microbes under different tillage practices and the subsequent effects...read more

Product Description: Plant hormones are important biochemical components affecting plant functioning under different conditions including stress. If the related signaling pathways are specified with great details, it will be possible to develop plants, which may perform more efficiently under stress...read more

Product Description: The role of signaling pathways such as plant hormonal signaling, mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) signaling, and oxidative stress signaling in plant under stress is of great significance. MAPK molecules are a set of proteins, handling different functions in plant including cell cycling, plant growth and development, plant response to stress, etc...read more

Product Description: Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 1 describes the most important details and advances related to the alleviation of soil stresses by soil microbes. Comprised of seven chapters, the book reviews the mechanisms by which plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) alleviate plant growth under stress; the role of mycorrhizal fungi on the alleviation of drought stress in host plants; how PGPR may alleviate salinity stress on the growth of host plants; and the role of PGPR on the growth of the host plant under the stress of sub optimal root zone temperature...read more

Product Description: Soil microbes have important functions in the ecosystem including cycling of nutrients, immobilisation and mineralisation of organic matter, controlling pathogens, improving soil structure and enhancing plant growth. This book contributes research, ideas and thoughts regarding the microbial methods by which the environment can be kept clean...read more