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Soil Microbial Diversity: Calling Citizens for Sustainable Agricultural Development

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The significant use of land and climate leads to the projection of worldwide transformation and finally leads to an increased rate of extension for microbes. The equators of the earth and the countries residing on the same have threatened species, and their frequencies are too high on the same. It is reported that the pollution and fragmented lands coupled with previous are responsible for the loss of microbial diversity in the soil. This chapter describes the sustainable management of soil microbial diversity. A diverse group of microorganisms is found in plants that grow in metallic polluted soil effectively tolerating a high level of steel and providing various benefits to both soil and plant life. Rhizospheric bacteria are particularly well represented in the microorganisms involved in phytoremediation of heavy metal, as these can at the same time increase how to plant remediation takes place by changing soil bioavailability by modifying the pH of the soil, releasing the chelators and the reactions oxidation/reduction. In the same manner, in hyperaccumulators produced in metallic contaminated fields, steel-resistant fungus was frequently cited suggesting that this fungus progressed heavy metal resistance and could also be active in the phytoremediation. The microbe attached to the plant causes the metal to accumulate from the soil via the sorption mechanism. “The definition of biosorption is the microbial adsorption by metabolism dependent and active process of soluble/insoluble organic/inorganic metals”. Some authors focused on the mechanism for bacterial absorption that reduced plant metal absorption. Research shows that metal bioavailability can be minimized through metal binding and/or metal bioavailability restricts the plant’s root/shoot ratio.

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Kumar, P., Dey, S.R. (2021). Soil Microbial Diversity: Calling Citizens for Sustainable Agricultural Development. In: Yadav, A.N., Singh, J., Singh, C., Yadav, N. (eds) Current Trends in Microbial Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture . Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6949-4_2

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