Contributors.............................................................................................................ix

Abbreviations .........................................................................................................xiii

Preface ................................................................................................................... xxi

PART I: Microorganism Application and Stress Tolerance ...............................1

1. Soil Microorganisms and Nematodes for Bioremediation and

Amelioration of Polluted Soils...........................................................................3

Md. Basit Raza, Jyotirmaya Sahoo, Biswaranjan Behera, Ajin S. Anil,

Rahul Kumar Tiwari, and Milan Kumar Lal

2. Rhizospheric Microbial Inoculation in Developing Stress Tolerance ......41

Suchismita Prusty, Monalisha Dasmohapatra, Sagar Maitra, and Ranjan Kumar Sahoo

3. Role of Endophytes, Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria, and

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Stress Tolerance................................57

Anuron Banerjee, Nirmalya Chakraborty, Krishnendu Acharya, and

Nilanjan Chakraborty

PART II: Priming and Genetic Engineering .....................................................97

4. Role of Hydropriming and Magneto-Priming in Developing

Stress Tolerance.............................................................................................99

Lekshmy Sathee, Meenakshi Thakur, Ravpreet Kaur, Sunita Kataria,

Anjali Anand, Dalveer Singh, and Shailesh Tripathi

5. Magneto-Priming: A Novel Technique Towards Improved

Seed Germinability and Stress Responses: From Basics to

Contemporary Advancements ................................................................... 133

Kuntal Bera, Subir Ghosh, Sanjoy Sadhukhan, and Puspendu Dutta

6. Plant Breeding Approaches in Developing Stress Tolerance...................167

Sami Ul-Allah, Asad Azeem, Ahmad Sher, Muhammad Ijaz,

Abdul Sattar, Muhammad Naeem, and Imran Ullah

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