TY - BOOK ID - 49153923 TI - Saline Soil-based Agriculture by Halotolerant Microorganisms AU - Kumar, Manoj. AU - Etesami, Hassan. AU - Kumar, Vivek. PY - 2019 SN - 9811383359 9811383340 PB - Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Agriculture. KW - Soil conservation. KW - Plant breeding. KW - Environmental management. KW - Microbial ecology. KW - Soil Science & Conservation. KW - Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. KW - Environmental Management. KW - Microbial Ecology. KW - Environmental microbiology KW - Microorganisms KW - Ecology KW - Microbiology KW - Environmental stewardship KW - Stewardship, Environmental KW - Environmental sciences KW - Management KW - Crops KW - Agriculture KW - Breeding KW - Conservation of soil KW - Erosion control, Soil KW - Soil erosion KW - Soil erosion control KW - Soils KW - Agricultural conservation KW - Soil management KW - Farming KW - Husbandry KW - Industrial arts KW - Life sciences KW - Food supply KW - Land use, Rural KW - Control KW - Prevention KW - Conservation KW - Soil science. KW - Pedology (Soil science) KW - Earth sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49153923 AB - This book discusses the role of salt in current agricultural approaches, including the low salt tolerance of agricultural crops and trees, impact of saline soils, and salt-resistant plants. Halophytes are extremely salt tolerant plants, which are able to grow and survive under salt at concentrations as high as 5 g/l by maintaining negative water potential. The salt-tolerant microbes inhabiting the rhizospheres of halophytes may contribute to their salt tolerance, and the rhizospheres of halophytic plants provide an ideal opportunity for isolating various groups of salt-tolerant microbes that could enhance the growth of different crops under salinity stress. The book offers an overview of salt-tolerant microbes' ability to increase plant tolerance to salt to facilitate plant growth, the potential of the halophytes’ rhizospheres as a reservoir of beneficial salt-tolerant microbes, their future application as bio-inoculants in agriculture and a valuable resource for an alternative way of improving crop tolerance to salinity and promoting saline soil-based agriculture. This special collection of reviews highlights some of the recent advances in applied aspects of plant (halophytes)-microbe interactions and their contribution towards eco-friendly approaches saline soil-based agriculture. ER -