This book highlights recent advances in the field of plant-biotic interactions and explores current serious issues in the crop production industry. It is intended to attract more attention to these important, but often overlooked areas, and to stimulate new ideas for future research.

Plants are constantly under attack by pathogens, pests, and parasites, which can significantly impact worldwide food production and human health. While pathogens and pests attack and interconnect with their hosts in a variety of ways, plants have developed sophisticated immune systems to fight infections. In the field of plant-biotic interactions, most of the studies to date have focused on the function and signaling pathways of plant disease resistance proteins and pattern recognition receptors, as well as pathogen effector proteins. 

In contrast, this book presents new and emerging research areas, and introduces students, researchers, academics, and policy advisors to the latest trends in e.g. microbial technology, environmental microbiology, agricultural science, the health sciences, biological sciences and other related disciplines.

Endophytic Microorganisms as Biological Control Agents for Plant Pathogens: A Panacea for Sustainable Agriculture

Plant - Phytophthora Interaction Proteomics
Impact of Climate Change on Soil Microbial Community
Industrial Effluents: Impact on Agricultural Soils and Microbial Diversity
Plant Metabolites Involved in Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Management of Root Knot Nematode in Different Crops Using Microorganisms
Plant Growth Promoting Bacterial Life at High Salt Concentrations: Genetic Variability
Rhizosphere: A Home for Human Pathogens
Effect of Organic Farming on Structural and Functional diversity of Soil Microbiome: Benefits and Risks
Plants for Biocontrol and Biological Control of Plant Pathogens
Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Biological Control of Insect Pests with Reference to Insect Immunity
Interaction Between Aromatic Oil Components and Bacterial Targets
Enhancement of Active Constituents of Medicinal Plants Through the Use of Microbes
Effect of Agnihotra Ash on Drug Resistant Escherichia coli in water
Plant Microbe Interface: The  Plant Antimicrobial Peptides
Microbe Mediated Abiotic Stress Alleviation: Molecular and Biochemical Basis
Microbial Diversity in Soil: Biological Tools for Abiotic Stress Management in Plants.