Overview
- Covers the thrust area in the use of microbial communities towards achieving sustainable agriculture
- Editors are the scientists who invented engineering of biofilms as biofertilizers for agriculture
- Book shows the importance of microbial communities over mono or mixed cultures in sustainable production
Part of the book series: Microorganisms for Sustainability (MICRO, volume 29)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book is about the role played by microbes in their community mode in sustaining ecosystems. The descriptions given in its chapters indicate clearly that microbial communities are more effective in delivering multifaceted benefits to the soil-plant system than those offered by microbial monocultures in planktonic modes. The role these communities play in a multitude of microbe-microbe and plant-microbe interactions have not yet been fully exploited to gain benefits in this field as well as to achieve sustainability in agriculture practices. Amply discussed are the beneficial characteristics and metabolic capacities of specific microbial groups and the use of microbial traits for the benefit of plant growth. The book suggests the need to develop new microbial technologies to utilize plant-associated microbes for increased crop productivity and agroecosystem balance in order to ensure sustainability. This also provides an effective guidance to scientists, academics, researchers, students and policy makers of the sphere to achieve the above outcomes.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gamini Seneviratne, Senior Research Professor, National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Hantana Road, Kandy, Sri Lanka
J. Shezmin Zavahir, Teaching Associate & Analytical Chemistry Researcher, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Professor Gamini Seneviratne
Professor Seneviratne received his PhD from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, followed by postdoctoral fellowships in Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Sydney, Australia, where he is also a visiting professor. Currently, he is a senior research professor at the National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS), Sri Lanka. He directs a novel field of research where microbial biofilms are developed for various biotechnological applications, including the world-first Biofilm-based biofertilizer biotechnology. He is a member of Soil Science Society of America, American Society for Microbiology, and a former editor, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (Elsevier). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in Sri Lanka.
J. Shezmin Zavahir
Junaida Shezmin Zavahir (J. S. Z. Ismail) received a BSc (Microbiology) and MSc (Biotechnology), from the Bangalore University, India. She is a PhD researcher in Analytical Chemistry at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and a Teaching Associate at its Faculty of Science. Her current research interests include gas chromatographic and infrared analysis of biofuels and essential oils, preceded by research on fungal-bacterial biofilm based biofertilizers. She has extensive experience as an analytical chemist of Alternate fuels. The recipient of numerous international and national awards, Shezmin is a member of the Chemicals and Plastics Innovation Network Industry Partnership, Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Role of Microbial Communities for Sustainability
Editors: Gamini Seneviratne, Junaida Shezmin Zavahir
Series Title: Microorganisms for Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9912-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9911-8Published: 28 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9914-9Published: 28 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9912-5Published: 27 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2512-1901
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1898
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 379
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Biotechnology, Microbial Ecology