Manoj Nath - Microbial Metatranscriptomics Belowground

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For the compilation of this book, emphasis has been given on the role of functional microbes belowground, i.e., in the rhizosphere to know the response to their metatranscriptomics level and impact on aboveground response. The functional or metatranscriptomics learning provides the detailed acclimation about the functional or transcriptional profiles of discrete microbial populations within a phytomicrobiome that reveals the molecular action of a microbiome and their regulatory mechanisms around the phytosphere.

This book is organized in 31 chapters that deliberate on microbial transcriptomics belowground and their response aboveground wherein structural and functional divergences of microbes rely on the deployment of various phenotypic and molecular approaches incurred.

Chapter seeks to get comprehensive knowledge on soil metatranscriptomics analysis including obtaining biologically important information from transcriptome datasets, comparative information to other transcriptome analysis techniques, bioinformatics tools and technical challenges applied to soil metatranscriptomics.

Chapter concludes with a brief reference to some of the advanced molecular tools available to explore microbial diversity in belowground.

Chapter discusses on the role of the functional rhizosphere in phytomicrobiome wherein extraction and purification of mRNA immediately from plant, decomposition of natural material and soil, accompanied with pooling of expressed genes by using high-throughput sequencing, have spawned metatranscriptomics a new rising area of research.

Chapter defines the utilization of functional infochemicals that provide the pathways for insect management by mating disruption, mass trapping, monitoring of pest infestation, mass annihilation. Thereby, these infochemicals can be an important component of sustainable management of insect pests and also Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

Chapter encompasses the deployment of synthetic biology in the genetics of the nitrogenase enzyme and its engineering in phytomicrobiome responses.

Chapter encompasses the role of functional AM fungi on various fruit crops that considered for useful organic cultivation and also for expanding the fruit crop in low fertility degraded soil with less expenditure and minimum reduction to yield.

Chapter encompasses the role of PGPRs in the rhizosphere and activities performing in that zone with varied potential of PGPRs in crop production for commercial uses.

Chapter seeks to disclose the role of flavonoid infochemicals in the modifier of the rhizospheric ecosystem favouring plant growth and development. These biochemicals play the role of signals to call the beneficial microbes towards plant root and deterring the pathogenic species away from the rhizosphere due to which they are also described as Infochemicals.

Chapter discusses various mechanisms adopted by the soil microbes to abrogate the negative effects of abiotic stresses in plants for their better growth and productivity.

Chapter defines the signalling molecules including transcription factors and volatile compounds and their role in plant defence response.

Chapter seeks to get comprehensive knowledge of techniques that are used to study metatranscriptomics and bioinformatics tools to interpret the most valuable knowledge from sequencing data.