Insights into Pivotal Role of Phytohormonal Cross Talk in Tailoring Underground Plant Root System Architecture / Priyanka Singla and Surinder Kaur -- Effects of Strigolactones on Plant Roots / Adrianus P. Claassens and Paul N. Hills -- Root Hair Growth and Development in Response to Nutrients and Phytohormones / De-Jian Zhang, Yu-Jie Yang, Chun-Yan Liu, Fei Zhang, and Qiang-Sheng Wu -- Morphological and Symbiotic Root Modifications for Mineral Acquisition from Nutrient-Poor Soils / A. Kleinert, V.A. Benedito, R.J.L. Morcillo, J. Dames, P. Cornejo-Rivas, A. Zuniga-Feest, Mabel Delgado, and Gastón Muñoz -- Root Exudates and Microbial Communities Drive Mineral Dissolution and the Formation of Nano-size Minerals in Soils: Implications for Soil Carbon Storage / Guanghui Yu -- Root Exudates Dominate the Colonization of Pathogen and Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria / Jun Yuan, Waseem Raza, and Qirong Shen -- Biocontrol of Soil-borne Root Pathogens: An Overview / Pratibha Thakur and Ishwar Singh -- Biological Control of Root-knot and Cyst Nematodes using Nematophagous Fungi / Geeta Saxena -- Optimizing Growth and Tolerance of Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) to Drought, Salinity and Vascular Fusarium-Induced Wilt (Fusarium oxysporum) by Application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) / Abdelilah Meddich, Mohamed Ait El Mokhtar, Widad Bourzik, Toshiaki Mitsui, Marouane Baslam, and Mohamed Hafidi -- Improvement of Salt Tolerance in Rice Plants by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis / Juan Manuel Ruiz-Lozano, Rosa Porcel, Mónica Calvo-Polanco, and Ricardo Aroca -- Bioprotection of Soybean Plants from Drought Stress by Application of Bacterial and Fungal Endophytes / Dipanti Chourasiya, Richa Agnihotri, Anil Prakash, Kamal K. Pal, and Mahaveer P. Sharma -- Perspectives of Rhizobacteria with ACC Deaminase Activity in Plant Growth under Abiotic Stress / Richa Raghuwanshi and Jay Kishor Prasad -- Root-Microbe Interactions: Understanding and Exploitation of Microbiome / Amita Sharma and Rajnish Kumar Verma -- Unfolding the Role of Rhizomicrobiome towards Sustainable Agriculture / Sanjana Kaul, Suruchi Gupta, Tanwi Sharma, and Manoj K. Dhar -- Morphological and Physiological Aspects of Symbiotic Plant-Microbe Interactions and their Significance / Surinder Kaur and Gurpreet Kaur -- Impact of Climate Change on Root-Pathogen Interactions / Parinita Singh, Touseef Hussain, Seema Patel, and Nadeem Akhtar -- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Responses to Nutrient Enrichment / Haishui Yang, Michelle Schroeder-Moreno, Bhoopander Giri, and Shuijin Hu -- Relationship Between Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and Plant Growth: Improvement or Depression? / Li-Hui Lü, Ying-Ning Zou, and Qiang-Sheng Wu -- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Symbiosis and Conservation of Endangered Tropical Legume Trees / Husna Faad, Faisal Danu Tuheteru, and Asrianti Arif -- From Mycorrhizosphere to Rhizosphere Microbiome: The Paradigm Shift / Manju M. Gupta, Ashima Aggarwal, and Asha -- Growth Response of Different Species and Provenances of be Seedlings to Inoculation with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi / B. Thioye, A. Kane, S.M. de Faria, D. Fall, D. Sanogo, C. Ndiaye, K.B. Sanon, A. Soule, R. Duponnois, S.N. Sylla, and A.M. Bâ.
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The book 'Root Biology' written by experts in the field, covers latest research on cellular, genetic, physiological and ecological developmental facets of root growth as well as the interaction of root with an array of microbes whether for the establishment of symbiosis, increasing plant growth or protecting plant from pathogens/attackers. Plant roots provide an excellent model to study physiological, developmental and metabolic processes at a system level. Root system architecture - an excellent creation of nature, is closely interconnected with the availability of soil nutrients. Several strategies including biotechnological interventions are gaining interest and importance for sustainable food production and enhanced resource acquisition. Such strategies have largely focused on root traits for efficient utilization of soil resources. The biotechnological application of root biology is expected to promote the production of food while maintaining ecologically and economically sustainable production systems. With a fortune of information on technical and experimental aspects useful in the laboratory, this extensive book is a valuable resource for researchers, academician and students in the broad field of microbiology, plant and fungal biology.