Table of Contents

Phytostimulation and Biocontrol by the Plant-Associated Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 - An Update.- Management of Tomato Foot and Root Rot (TFRR) by Biocontrol Agents with Emphasis on Factors Affecting its Effectiveness.- Microbial Inoculants for Optimized Plant Nutrients Use in Integrated Pest and Input Management Systems.- The Legume Nodule Microbiome: A Source of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria.- Plant Growth Promoting Microbes: Diverse Roles in Agriculture and Environmental Sustainability.- Phosphate Biofertilizers as Renewable and Safe Phosphorous Suppliers for Cropping Systems: A Review.- Bacterial Probiotics: A Truly Green Revolution.- Plant–Microbe Interactions in Adaptation of Agricultural Crops to Abiotic Stress Conditions.- Diversity and Efficiency of Rhizobia Nodulating Hedysarum flexuosum L. in Northwestern of Morocco in Relation to Soil Properties.- Increased Soil-Microbial-Eco-Physiological Interactions and Microbial Food Safety in Tomato under Organic Strategies.-Emerging Significance of Rhizospheric Probiotics and its Impact on Plant Health: Current Perspective towards Sustainable Agriculture.- The good, The Bad and The Ugly of Rhizosphere Microbiome.- Carriers and their Role in Plant Agro system.- Microbial Plant Probiotics: Problems in Application and Formulation.- Modulation of Plant Micronutrient Uptake by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi.- Efficacy of Probiotic Supplemented Vermicompost on Germination, Growth and Biochemical content of Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper.- Range of Microbial Disease-Complexes with Meloidogyne species and Role of Botanicals in Management.- Endophytic Probiotics and Plant Health- Towards a Balanced Accost.- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) and Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) Association in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)- A brief Review.- Microbial Biofertilizer Interventions in Augmenting Agroforestry.- 21) Effect of Biofertilizers on Biomass Yield and Quality of Ocimum basilicum L.- PGPR: Current Vogue in Sustainable Crop Production.- Application of Bioinoculants for Sustainable Agriculture.- Organic Farming, food quality and human health: A trisection of sustainability and a move from pesticides to ecofriendly biofertilizers.- Role of Trichoderma spp. for the Management of Soil-borne Fungal Pathogens.- Microbes as Biocontrol Agents.- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi for Sustainable Agriculture.- Microbial options for improved crop production.- Health implications of a plant beneficial and probiotic Lactobacillus casei in foods containing the isoflavone, Daidzein.

About the Author

Dr. Vivek Kumar is a scientist with involved in teaching, research and guidance, with a pledge to enduring knowledge. Dr. Kumar is working in the Institute of Microbial Technology at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. He obtained his masters and doctoral degree from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India. He is serving in Editorial board of reputed international journals viz. Environment Asia, International Journal of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Journal of Advanced Botany and Zoology, Journal of Ecobiotechnology. He is also reviewer of Journal of Hazardous Materials, Science International, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Int. Research Journal of Plant Sciences, Int. J. Microbiology, African J Microbiology Research, Journal of Microbiology and Antimicrobials, Environment Science & Pollution Research, Rhizosphere. He has published 61 research papers, 19 book chapters, six review articles and two books. Dr. Kumar has also served as Microbiologist for eight years in Department of Soil and Water Research, Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs & Fish Resources, Kuwait. Dr. Kumar has organized number of conferences/workshops as convener/ organizing secretary.

Dr. Kumar’s research area are plant-microbe-interactions, environmental microbiology and bioremediation. He has been credited with first time reporting and identification of Pink Rot inflorescence disease of Date palm in Kuwait caused by Serratia marcescens. He has been awarded ‘Young Scientist Award’ for the year 2002 in ‘Agricultural Microbiology’ by the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI).

Dr. Kumar is establishing an “unearthing and deliverance system”, where a balance is being strived between development of drought and salinity resistant microbiome for better crop production in rain fed and saline area. His teaching interests include General Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology/Biotechnology, Dairy microbiology and Bacteriology.