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Microbes and Sustainable Agriculture covers recent spate of research, highlighting the major role of microbes in agriculture sustainability. It explains the role of bacteria, cyanobacteria and fungi in diverse facets of agriculture to preserve the sustainability including arbuscular mycorrhizal association, microbial biopesticides, heavy metal resistant bacterial strains, herbicides for weed management, biochar and its role in soil fertility management and plant disease management. This book is designed for undergraduate, postgraduate and research students working or interested in agricultural microbiology; and to serve as a reference for scientists, professionals and engineers in this field.

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Ram Prasad is Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh. He obtained his PhD (Microbiology) from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut for which he did the experimental work in School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He did his MSc in Life Sciences from School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi and has qualified CSIR-NET, GATE and ASRB-NET. He has seventy-five publications to his credit, which include research papers and book chapters at international and national levels. He also has five patents issued or pending and he is author/editor of three books. Dr Prasad has twelve years of research and nine years of teaching experience. He was awarded Young Scientist Award and Prof JS Datta Munshi Gold Medal. He has also been awarded FSAB fellowship by the Society for Applied Biotechnology in the field of Microbial Biotechnology. Recently, he has been awarded American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowships (2014) for Beginning Investigators and, is presently, Visiting Assistant Professor in Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, the USA. Narendra Kumar is Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. He obtained his PhD (Microbiology) from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh and MSc in Applied Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, CHRI, Gwalior. He has more than twenty publications to his credit, which include research papers and book chapters at international and national levels. Dr Narendra has fourteen years of research and teaching experience. He has also served as Head of the Department and Coordinator, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Department of Biotechnology, IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. He has also served as Member of Board of Studies and RDCs of State Technical and other universities

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