Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Higher Plants

This book covers the fundamentals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and higher plant symbiosis with potential implications in crop production. It provides new insights into our understanding of the mechanisms of AMF-mediated plant growth regulation and stress tolerance covering the most recent biochemical, physiological, molecular, environmental, and ecological studies. Focusing on AMF-induced physiological and molecular mechanisms of enhanced tolerance to stress, environmental stress is discussed in several dedicated chapters. The book provides not only updated information with new insights and perspectives but also several new topics, such as a comprehensive discussion on biotic stressors, AMF interaction with other microorganisms, non-host plant species, plant secondary metabolism, signaling events in plant-AMF symbiosis, AMF-mediated nutrient acquisition and subsequent stress tolerance. The book also discusses the potential implications of AMF for sustainable crop production in the context of climate change. The book can be a useful reference book for academics and scientists involved in related research, such as academics in agronomy and plant sciences, scientists involved in beneficial fungi research, chemists, industrialists, and employees involved in the production and marketing of biofertilizers, master and doctoral degree students of agronomy, horticulture, and plant protection, consultants working on the production of crops in marginal environments as well as environmental scientists working for assisted phytoremediation programs. It would also be suitable for agronomy, ecology, and plant science-related courses, such as plant stress physiology, plant growth-promoting microbes, and plant pathology to teach undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students at colleges and universities.

Auteur

Dr. Golam Jalal Ahammed is an Associate Professor at the Department of Horticulture, College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China. Dr. Ahammed received a Ph.D. in Olericulture with a major focus on Plant Stress Physiology and Hormonal Regulation in 2012 from Zhejiang University, China. Afterward, he completed two consecutive postdoctoral programs at the Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology and the Institute of Crop Science of Zhejiang University. His major research interests include plant stress physiology, phytohormones, climate change effect on plants, biological control of plant diseases and environmental pollution. Dr. Ahammed authored over 160 peer-reviewed papers in internationally reputed journals. He is a Senior Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports and an Associate Editor of BMC Plant Biology, AoB Plants and the Journal of Plant Growth Regulation.

Dr. Roghieh Hajiboland is a Professor at the Department of Plant, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. Dr. Hajiboland received a Ph.D. in Plant physiology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany in 2000. Afterward, she started working as academic staff in the University of Tabriz and completed two international research programs through working as visiting scientist in the Faculty of Biosciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain in 2009 and in the Faculty of Agriculture and forestry, University of Helsinki in 2010. Her major research interests include plant nutritional physiology, plant stress physiology and plant-microbe interactions. Dr. Hajiboland authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers in internationally reputed journals.