Microbial Symbionts and Plant Health: Trends and Applications for Changing Climate

Chapter 1: Global climate perturbations: sustainable microbial mitigation strategies.- Chapter 2: Soil microflora and their interaction with plants under changing climatic scenarios.- Chapter 3: Beneficial microbial consortia and their role in sustainable agriculture under climate change conditions.- Chapter 4: Unfolding the role of beneficial microbes and microbial techniques on improvement of sustainable agriculture under climatic challenges.- Chapter 5: Microbes and their role in alleviation of abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in crop plants.- Chapterb 6: Plant-microbe interaction and their role in mitigation of heat stress.- Chapter 7: Role of soil microbes against abiotic stresses induced oxidative stresses in plants.- Chapter 8: An overview of the multifaceted role of plant growth promoting microorganisms and endophytes in sustainable agriculture: Developments and prospects.- Chapter 9: Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR): an indispensable tool for climate resilientcrop production.- Chapter 10: Plant endophyte interactions- a driving phenomenon for boosting plant health in the face of climate change.- Chapter 11: Deciphering the role of growth promoting bacterial endophytes in harmonizing plant health.- Chapter 12: Endophytic microbes and their role in plant health.- Chapter 13: Multitrophic Reciprocity of AMF with Plants and Other Soil Microbes in Relation to Biotic Stress.- Chapter 14: Effect of temperature and defence response on the severity of dry root rot disease in chickpea caused by Macrophomina phaseolina.- Chapter 15: Emerging roles of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in salt stress alleviation: applications in sustainable agriculture.- Chapter 16: Studies on orchidoid mycorrhizae and mycobionts. associated with orchid plants as plant growth promoters and stimulator in seed germination.- Chapter 17: Current status of mycorrhizal biofertilizer in crop improvement and its future prospects.- Chapter 18: New developments in techniqueslike

Dr. Piyush Mathur is presently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India. He has been teaching for the past 6 years and has taught both at the undergraduate and post graduate level Dr. Mathur has done his PhD in botany with a specialization in mycology and plant pathology. Presently, he is supervising four PhD research scholars who are working on microbial diversity, bioprospecting, and plant disease management. He has published several papers in well-known international journals of repute. Dr. Mathur has also contributed articles as book chapters in international and national books. He has recently edited a book entitled Plant Stress: Challenges and Management in the New Decade published by Springer under ASTI series and is working on other books too with Springer. Dr. Mathur is an active member of the Society of Rapeseed Mustard Research (SRMR), Bharatpur, and Delhi University Botanical Society (DUBS) Delhi, India.

Prof. Rupam Kapoor is presently working as a senior professor in the Department of Botany, University of Delhi. She is an active researcher working in the field of plant-fungus interactions for many years. Prof. Kapoor has been listed in the global ranking of the top 2% scientist for her significant contribution for two consecutive years 2020-21. She has supervised 12 PhD theses and 10 MPhil theses, and mentored a number of MSc dissertations. She has publications in well-known peer-reviewed national and international journals of high repute. A number of articles have also been published in the form of book chapters in international and national books.  She is presently serving as an associate editor of 3Biotech, an international journal from Springer. She is also working as a review editor on the editorial board of Frontiers in Plant Science - Plant Symbiotic Interactions. Prof. Kapoor is a member of various learned societies like the International Mycorrhiza Society and