Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought, and Heat Stress

Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought and Heat Stress provides the latest information on the potential for sustainable, enhanced resilience of agricultural crops to adverse conditions. This volume in the Biostimulant and Protective Biochemical Agents series focuses on high impact challenges and opportunities. Biostimulants are a promising and effective approach for achieving sustainable agriculture, often regarded as a renewable source of plant nutrients, improve crop production and soil health. During the last decade, there has been a growing interest in the potential use of various biostimulants such as plant growth-promoting fungi, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, seaweed extracts, and organic amendments, etc. to increase nutrient use efficiency, and/or tolerance to abiotic environmental stress in plants. Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought and Heat Stress includes coverage of bacteria, algae, PGR, PGPB, biochar and other core approaches. It highlights how specific biostimulants may protect or enhance agricultural plant health and is the first comprehensive reference resource to focus exclusively on the role of biostimulants in protecting agricultural crop yield against these major environmental challenges.

M. Naeem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India. His research focuses on escalating the production of medicinal plants and their active principles using potent PGRs under normal and stressful environmental conditions. His research also focuses on abiotic stress tolerance in medicinal plants. Dr. Naeem has published over 100 research papers in reputable international journals. He has also authored 12 books and co-authored several book chapters published by international publishers. Based on his research contributions, Dr. Naeem has received multiple awards and recognitions. Dr. Sarvajeet Singh Gill is an Assistant Professor at Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. His research focus includes Agricultural Plant Biotechnology; Biotic & Abiotic stress biology, plant microbe interaction and in-silico understanding of plant genomes. In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities he has served as Associate Editor for the Brazilian Journal of Botany, and as Guest Editor of Plant Genes. He was Guest Editor of BioMed Research International’s Special Issue (Plant Stress & Biotechnology); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Environmental Toxicology (Topic Title: Phytotoxicity of high and low levels of plant-beneficial heavy metal ions); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Crop Science and Horticulture (Topic Title: The Brassicaceae - agri-horticultural and environmental perspectives); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Plant Physiology (Topic Title: Recent insights into the double role of hydrogen peroxide in plants); and Functional Genomics Approaches to Decipher Plant Resilience to Environmental Stresses (International Journal of Plant Genomics).