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Recent Trends in Biofertilizers comprises a selection of sixteen articles contributed by over forty distinguished academicians from India, Brazil and Egypt. These articles jointly address the broader need of increasing soil fertility through sustainable methods and practices. Biofertilizers contain a wide range of naturally chelated plant nutrients, carbohydrates, amino acids, trace elements and plant growth promoting vitamins and hormones. These components are discussed appropriately in the book. Fresh insights into biofertilizer technology, biotechnology-based biofertilizers, and other recent developments in this area are covered in depth. Discussion of the tremendous advancements made in the last decade in biofertilizer technology through development of biotic and abiotic stress tolerant microbial strains is one of the hallmark features of this book. The book also appropriately addresses the soil aspects -- nutrient index values for different types of soil have been presented. Other major highlights of the book are coverage of liquid biofertilizers; benefits of different biofertilizer efficient strains along with the constraints in the production, distribution, field and marketing; quality control and assurance aspects; and application of bioinformatics. With its coverage and emphasis, this book will be an immensely useful reference for teachers and students of undergraduate colleges, universities, and research scholars who are engaged in this aspect of research, such as Agricultural Microbiology, Trainees in Biofertilizer companies, and Agricultural Development Officers.

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Professor Bikas Ranjan Pati is a famous name in the field of agricultural microbiology. He did his Ph D from University of Calcutta, India with the topic concerning biological nitrogen fixation. His academic career began with Scottish Church College, Kolkata and later he moved to Vidyasagar University in the Department of Botany in 1990 and in 2001 he founded the Department of Microbiology. He also established the Bioinformatics Center in the University. He has collaborations with other universities and published 110 papers, a major part of which is concerned with nitrogen fixation, liquid biofertilizers and vermicomposting. He has completed several projects funded by UGC, CSIR, DRDO, AICTE, DBT, UNDP etc. and gathered experience in teaching and research more than 40 years. Dr. Santi M. Mandal, completed his Ph D in the field of Molecular Microbiology under the supervision of Prof. Bikas R. Pati. He visited UTMB- USA and NUS-Singapore for his post doctoral research and now is working as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Vidyasagar University, India. He published 80 papers in reputed journal and achieved several prestigious national awards on his research contribution.

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