Rhizosphere Biotechnology : Plant Growth - Retrospect and Prospect

Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) as biofertilizers: an appraisal on retrospect and prospect/S. Choudhury. 2. Role of rhizosphere microorganisms in sustainable crop production/B.D. Kaushik. 3. Dynamics of the Rhizosphere population/Rajni Gupta and K.G. Mukerji. 4. Microorganisms in conservation and diversification of forest plant biodiversity/Jamaluddin. 5. Potentials of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza and rhizosphere microflora in tea plantation of North East India/P. Dutta, S.R. Sarmah, Ivy Phukan, A. Tanti, R. Begum, R. Phukan, Debnath and Barthakur. 6. Mycorrhizal dependency of Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum) in the soil of rainfed area/A.K. Roy and Rashmi. 7. Induction of systemic resistance in tea plants against root rot pathogen upon field application of VAM, Phosphate solubilising fungus and bacterium/B.N. Chakraborty , U. Chakraborty, B.C. Barman, L.P. Bhutia and P.K. Ghosh. 8. Diversity of rhizosphere AM fungi in pre-and post reclaimed OBD of coal mines - A case study of Rajmahal coal field, Lalmatia/A.K. Roy, A.N. Singh and A. Arshi. 9. Native Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) from wheat crop fields (Sagar, M.P.): Seasonal variation of fungal spore density/Deepak Vyas, O.P. Dwivedi, Archana Dube, Anuradha Soni, Prashant Soni and M.K. Mishra. 10. Cultural characterization and optimization of the fermentation conditions for thermophilic amylase producer Bacillus S-8/Raj Narayan Roy and Sukanta Kumar Sen. 11. Rhizosphere of Nickel hyperaccumulating plants: A niche for nickel-resistant bacteria/Arundhati Pal and A.K. Paul. 12. Plant growth promoting activity of Serratia marcescens isolated from tea rhizosphere and its application for induction of resistance against Fomes lamaoensis/U. Chakraborty, B.N. Chakraborty, M. Basnet and D. Deb. 13. Biopesticides - It's need and future/J.K. Johri. 14. Multiple application of Rhizobium as nitrogen fixer, pesticides degradant and biocontrol agent of groundnut diseases/L.V. Gangawane and A.B. Ade. 15. Nitrogen fixation in various microorganisms with special reference to Frankia/M.K. Ghosh, S. Sur and A. Sen. 16. Incidence of fungal diseases on onion and garlic bulbs from Marathwada region/N.M. Ghangaonkar and D.S. Mukadam. 17. Mycological diversity in some commonly cultivated maize varieties in relation to aflatoxin elaboration/K.K. Sinha, M.K. Roy and R. Batsa. 18. Rhizosphere AM fungi of some rare medicinal plants/A.K. Roy, A.N. Singh and N.K. Gautam.