by Shah Fahad, Shah Saud, Fazli Wahid, Muhammad Adnan
The
alkaline calcareous nature, high pH, salinity, heavy metals pollution,
and low organic matter content of soils in many parts of the world have
diminished the soil fertility and made essential nutrients unavailable
to crops. To cope with the poor availability of soil nutrients, improve
soil health, and feed the fast-growing global population, the farming
community is using millions of tons of expensive chemical fertilizers in
their fields to maintain an adequate level of nutrients for crop
sustainability as well as to ensure food security. In this scenario, the
exploitation of biofertilizers has become of paramount importance in
the agricultural sector for their potential role in food safety and
sustainable crop production. Bearing in mind the key importance of
biofertilizers, this book examines the role of biofertilizers in
sustainable management of soil and plant health under different
conditions of the changing climate. Finally, it provides a platform for
scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and
discuss various new issues, developments, and limitations in
biofertilizers, crops, and beneficial microbes.
Salient Features:
- Mainly
focuses on the role of biofertilizers in managing soils for improving
crop and vegetable yields as a substitute for chemical fertilizers.
- Highlights
the valuable information for the mechanism of action, factors
affecting, and limitations of biofertilizers in the wider ecosystem.
- Presents a diversity of techniques used across plant science.
- Designed
to cater to the needs of researchers, technologists, policy makers, and
undergraduates and postgraduates studying in the fields of organic
agriculture, soil microbiology, soil biology, soil fertility, and
fertilizers.
- Addresses plant responses to biofertilizers.
