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- Covers recent information presented in a more simple way
- Consolidates the latest literature on microbial technologies as a tool for plant productivity and management
- Elucidates genetic basis of plant-microbe interaction
Part of the book series: Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology (EMB)
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Editors and Affiliations
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Ram Prasad, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research interest includes applied & environmental microbiology, plant-microbe-interactions, sustainable agriculture and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than two hundred fifteen publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles & book chapters and six patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. Previously, Dr. Prasad served as Assistant Professor Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Shi-Hong Zhang, Ph.D. is a professor in the College of Plant Protection and director of the Fungal Genetics and Molecular Plant Pathology Program at Shenyang Agricultural University. Prof. Zhang is a pioneer in Extreme-Environmental Fungal identification and application in soil bioremediation by using halophilic fungi. From 2006-2016, Prof. Zhang has been the chairman of Science Committee of College of Plant Sciences at Jilin University. Since 2020, he joined in the Shenyang Agricultural University. Prof. Zhang has more than 30 years of experience working in the field of plant protection, microbiology and environment protection. Till now, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in his research fields, and was the co-inventor of 40 granted Invention Patents of China, most of which are useful for crop resistant improvement against bio- or abio-stress.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beneficial Microorganisms in Agriculture
Editors: Ram Prasad, Shi-Hong Zhang
Series Title: Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0733-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0732-6Published: 05 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0735-7Published: 06 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0733-3Published: 04 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-1681
Series E-ISSN: 2662-169X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 348
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agriculture, Microbiology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics