Main description:

Biocontrol and Secondary Metabolites: Applications and Immunization for Plant Growth and Protection covers established and updated research on emerging trends in plant defense signaling in, and during, stress phases. Other topics cover growth at interface as a sustainable way of life and the context of human welfare and conservation of fungi as a group of organisms. Further, the book explores induced systemic resistance using biocontrol agents and/or secondary metabolites as a milestone for sustainable agricultural production, thus providing opportunities for the minimization or elimination of the use of fungicides.

Contents:

1. Fungi for Biofactory of secondary metabolites: Genomics and metabolism 2. Signatures of signaling pathways underlying plant growth promotion by fungi 3. Beneficial plant-associated bacteria modulate host hormonal system enhancing plant resistance towards abiotic stress 4. Over-production of ROS: underlying molecular mechanism of scavenging and redox signaling 5. Molecular mechanisms /cell signaling pathways for plant protection from diseases by fungi 6. Antioxidant-Mediated Defense against Biotic Stress in Plants 7. Explorations of Fungal Diversity in Extreme Environmental Conditions for sustainable agriculture applications 8. Impact of potassium solubilzing fungi as biopesticides and its role in crop improvement 9. Terpenes a plant defense activator to diverse biotic stresses 10. Bio-control Potential of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Against Ralstonia Solanacearum: Current and Future Prospects 11. Fungal diversity and its role in sustainable agriculture 12. Exploring the Biogeographical Diversity of Trichoderma for Plant Health 13. Ecological Studies of Fungal Biodiversity in Fresh Water and their broad spectrum applications 14. Antimicrobial secondary metabolites from Trichoderma spp. as next generation fungicides 15. Biostimulants: Promising probiotics for plant health 16. Control of corn rot and wilt of saffron using agriculturally important microorganisms 17. Seed biopriming: a novel method to control seed borne diseases of crops 18. Current trends and future prospects of secondary metabolite based products from agriculturally important microorganisms 19. Management of major diseases of spice crops using encapsulated microbial formulation 20. Exploring plant Volatile compounds in sustainable crop improvement 21. Controlling diseases of MAPs using novel PGPR 22. Trichoderma from gene to field 23. Polyphenols: How they protect crops against stresses 24. Regulatory requirements for commercialisation of biocontrol agents