Sustainable Horticulture

Sustainable Horticulture: Microbial Inoculants and Stress Interaction gives insights into the applications and formulations of microbial inoculants. In recent years, the optimum yields of horticultural plants largely influenced by rising global temperature, biotic stress (attack of pathogens) and abiotic stresses has created extra pressure for the horticulturalist to meet the need of optimum yield production for the burgeoning global population. However, the challenges of biotic and abiotic stress factors mitigated by traditional physical or chemicals methods include high application cost and adverse impact on quality limit the frequent use, hence the solutions in this book create new avenues for progress.

This book covers those challenges and how microbial based bio inoculants are broadly used in horticulture to mitigate the challenges of biotic and abiotic stresses. It provides an important contribution on how to apply efficient beneficial microbes (microbial inoculants) for a sustainable society.

1. Effects of microbial inoculants on growth, yield and fruit quality under stress condition
2. Nutrient availability in temperate fruit species: New approaches in bacteria and mycorrhiza
3. The effects of microbial inoculants on secondary metabolite production
4. Sustainable stress mitigation with microorganisms in viticulture
5. Mitigation of heavy metal toxicity by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR)
6. Regulatory role of microbial inoculant to induce salt stress tolerance in horticulture crops
7. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in biotic and abiotic stress conditions: Function and management in horticulture
8. Enhancing the physiological and molecular responses of horticultural plants to drought stress through PGPR
9. Nanotechnologies for microbial inoculants as bio-fertilizers in the horticulture
10. Use of microbial inoculants against biotic stress in vegetable crops: Agronomic, physiological and molecular expressions
11. Important contribution of microbial inoculants in organic agriculture
12. Seed application with microbial inoculants for enhanced plant growth
13. The application of microbial inoculants in soilless horticultural management
14. Organic waste separation with microbial inoculants as an effective tool for horticulture
15. The application of microbial inoculants in postharvest storage technology in horticultural crops
16. The application of microbial inoculants in postharvest disease management of horticultural produces
17. Nanobased biofertilizers for horticulture
18. Effectiveness of beneficial bacteria on biotic stress caused by plant pathogens and horticultural crops interactions

Dr. Musa Seymen is currently working at Selcuk University, Horticulture Department of Agriculture Faculty, Konya/Turkey. Dr. Seymen completed his doctoral research from The Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science of Selcuk University Konya/Turkey. He has published more than seventy research articles and book chapters in leading International and National journals or books. He has a wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, In addition, he has publications in journals such as Agricultural Water Management and Scientia Horticulturae belonging to the world famous Elsevier group. He is also acting as a reviewer in some leading journals. He is still working on research on the effects of beneficial bacteria in vegetables on plant growth and physiology and produces book chapters on the subject
Dr. Ertan Sait Kurtar is currently working at Selcuk University, Horticulture Department of Agriculture Faculty, Konya/Turkey. Dr. Kurtar completed his doctoral research from The Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science of Çukurova University Adana/Turkey. He has a wide area of research experience, especially in the field of tissue culture (regeneration
Dr. Ceknas Erdinc is currently working at Van Yuzuncu Yil University, l Biotechnology Department, Van/Turkey. Dr. Erdinc completed his doctoral research from The Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science of Van Yuzuncu Yil University Van/Turkey. He has published more than seventy research articles and book chapters in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Microbe Interactions, vegetable breeding, plant physiology and drought and salt stress. In addition, he has publications in journals such as Biochemical Systematics and Ecology and Scientia Horticulturae belonging to the world-famous Elsevier group. He is also acting as a reviewer in some leading journals. He is still working on the effects of PGPR and AMF in vegetables on plant growth and physiology and produces book chapters on the subject
Dr. Ajay Kumar is a visiting scientist at the Department of Postharvest Science, Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel. He has published extensively in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Microbial biocontrol, and Endophytes related with the medicinal plants, Postharvest management of fruits. Dr. Kumar has published more than 165 research articles including review papers/book chapters/ books in the leading international journals. He is serving as special issue editors in some journals like "Frontiers in Microbiology, Microorganism etc. In addition also acting as reviewer in some leading journals like Frontiers group, PLOS ONE, Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Biological Control, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 3Biotech etc. Dr, Kumar has edited several books with leading publishers including Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor and Francis.