Biofertilizers for Sustainable Soil Management

The  alkaline calcareous nature, high pH, salinity, heavy metals pollution,  and low organic matter content of soils in many parts of the world have  diminished the soil fertility and made essential nutrients unavailable  to crops. To cope with the poor availability of soil nutrients, improve  soil health, and feed the fast-growing global population, the farming  community is using millions of tons of expensive chemical fertilizers in  their fields to maintain an adequate level of nutrients for crop  sustainability as well as to ensure food security. In this scenario, the  exploitation of biofertilizers has become of paramount importance in  the agricultural sector for their potential role in food safety and  sustainable crop production. Bearing in mind the key importance of  biofertilizers, this book examines the role of biofertilizers in  sustainable management of soil and plant health under different  conditions of the changing climate. Finally, it provides a platform for  scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and  discuss various new issues, developments, and limitations in  biofertilizers, crops, and beneficial microbes. 

Salient Features:

• Mainly  focuses on the role of biofertilizers in managing soils for improving  crop and vegetable yields as a substitute for chemical fertilizers.
• Highlights  the valuable information for the mechanism of action, factors  affecting, and limitations of biofertilizers in the wider ecosystem.
• Presents a diversity of techniques used across plant science.
• Designed  to cater to the needs of researchers, technologists, policy makers, and  undergraduates and postgraduates studying in the fields of organic  agriculture, soil microbiology, soil biology, soil fertility, and  fertilizers.
• Addresses plant responses to biofertilizers.