Soil Nitrogen Ecology

Part I: Nitrogen physiology and ecology.-  Chapter 1:    Physiology and distribution of Nitrogen in soils.- Chapter 2: Ecophysiology of nitrogen in symbiotic relationships of plants and microorganisms.- Chapter 3: Ecological perspectives on soil microbial community involved in N-cycling.- Chapter 4: Pedological assessment of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen contents in wetland rice ecosystems of Majuli river island, Assam, India.- Part II: Nitrogen cycle and pathway.- Chapter 5: Functional Nitrogen in Rhizosphere.- Chapter 6: Potential contribution of soil microflora and fauna in Nitrogen cycle: A comprehensive study.- Chapter 7: Unraveling microbial nitrogen pathway in rhizosphere.- Chapter 8: Role of root exudates on different processes of nitrogen cycle in rhizosphere.- Part III: Techniques and applications.- Chapter 9: Techniques for improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice.- Chapter 10: Tools for characterization of nitrogen fixing microbes.- Chapter 11:Biopriming is emerging as a supplemental strategy for improving nitrogen use efficiency of crop species.- Chapter 12:    Overview of the role of nitrogen in copper pollution and bioremediation mediated by plant-microbe interactions.- Part IV: Metagenomics.- Chapter 13: Metagenomics for improving soil fertility.- Chapter 14: Soil microbial diversity and metagenomics.- Part V: Bacteria in nitrogen fixation.- Chapter 15: Beneficial effects of Nitrogen fixing bacteria for agriculture of the future.- Chapter 16: Functional Diversity of Nitrogen-Fixing Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria-The Story so Far.- Chapter 17: Bacterial mutants for enhanced nitrogen fixation.- Chapter 18: Perspectives of nitrogen fixing Bacillus spp.- Chapter 19: Quorum Sensing Enhances Nitrogen Uptake In Plants.- Part VI: Fungi in nitrogen fixation.- Chapter 20: Fungi and nitrogen cycle: symbiotic relationship, mechanism and significance.- Chapter 21: Arbuscular Mycorrhizae in Sustainable Plant

Prof. Cristina Cruz is a faculty at Plant Biology,  Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa - FCUL), Portugal, where she is teaching and carryout research since 1994. She teaches in the Department of Plant Biology (Departamento de Biologia Vegetal - DBV), and carry out research in the Plant-Soil Ecology Group of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c). She is interested in the physiological mechanisms that determine the suitability of terrestrial plants to their environments, especially in environments rich in ammonium. Prof Cruz is actively engaged in research and has coordinated several research projects funded by National Science Foundation, IMM, European Space Agency, Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation and many more. She has more than 100 research publications in scientific journals and around 40 book chapters with Backhuys Publishers, Oxford and IBH Publishing, Springer, Nova Science Publishers, and European Science Foundation and Springer verlag, Germany. She is also a Consultant to the European Commission as an external expert evaluator of projects and progress reports with significant experience as scientific referee and examiner.

Dr. Kanchan Vishwakarma is currently working as Research Scientist at Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University Noida. She has completed her MTech and PhD from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, the Institute of National Importance. Her broad area of interest includes assessment of plant physiology under stress, plant microbe interaction and plant nanoparticle interaction. She is majorly engaged in studying the role of beneficial microbes such as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and nanoparticle's interaction to eradicate stress in various crops.. She is recipient of Gold Medal and Merit Certificate for her MTech dissertation in 2015 and a prestigious Tony B