Genome engineering for crop improvement / edited by Santosh Kumar Upadhyay, Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALOK KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, Senior Scientist, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Mau, India.

PREM LAL KASHYAP, Scientist (Plant Pathology), ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Haryana, India.

MADHUMITA SRIVASTAVA, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface vii

List of Contributors ix

About the Editors xiii

1 Plant Microbiome: Past, Present and Future 1
Akhilendra Pratap Bharati, Ashutosh Kumar, Sunita Kumari, Anjney Sharma, Prem Lal Kashyap, Sudheer Kumar, Madhumita Srivastava, and Alok Kumar Srivastava

2 The Plant Microbiome in Agricultural Sustainability: From Microbe to Microbiome 31
Jose Pedro Fonseca, Yuan Wang, and Kirankumar S. Mysore

3 Seed Microbiome and Its Implication in Plant Growth Promotion and Health 47
Padmavathi Tallapragada and Usha Seshachla

4 Microbiome: The Holobiont, Its Application and Effect on the Plant System 65
Pragati Sahai and Vimlendu Bhushan Sinha

5 Ecology of the Diazotrophic Microbiome 81
Preeti Singh, Rahul Kunwar Singh, Dhananjay Kumar, and Shree Prakash Tiwari

6 Functional Microbiome for Crop Improvement Under a Changing Environment 101
Abbaci Hocine, Bensidhoum Leila, Houali Karim, and Nabti Elhafid

7 Functional Importance of the Phyllosphere Microbiome and Its Implications in Agriculture 119
Parasuraman Paramanantham, Subhaswaraj Pattnaik, and Siddhardha Busi

8 Microbial Consortia: Emerging Conglomerate for Better and Superior Sustainable Agricultural Practices 141
Rishi Kumar Verma, Manisha Sachan, and Shivesh Sharma

9 Rhizomicrobiome for Sustainable Crop Growth and Health Management 157
Tualar Simarmata, Mieke R. Setiawati, Betty N. Fitriatin, and Diyan Herdiyantoro

10 Mycorrhizal Microbiome: An Ideal Association in Sustainable Agriculture 195
Baby Summuna, Sachin Gupta, and Moni Gupta

11 Microbiome-Driven Nutrient Fortification in Plants: The Role of Microbiota in Chemical Transformation and Nutrient Mobilization 211
Irina Sidorova and Elena Voronina

12 Engineering Microbes to Improve Crop Health: A New Dimension for Sustainable Agricultural Productivity 231
P. Veera Bramhachari, A.M.V.N. Prathyusha, and Ganugula Mohana Sheela

13 Biotechnology of Plant-Associated Microbiomes 243
Son Truong Dinh, Van T. Luu, Long Hoa Hoang, Xuan Canh Nguyen, and Cuong Tu Ho

14 Microbiome Genomics and Functional Traits for Agricultural Sustainability 279
Amy Novinscak, Antoine Zboralski, Roxane Roquigny, and Martin Filion

Index 299

"Genome engineering tools like ZFNs, TALENs and CRISPR-Cas system have been extensively studied in various crop plants. In the last decades, they have been utilized in numerous agricultural and horticultural crop plants including rice, wheat, legumes, tomato, potato, banana, grapes etc. They are found to be highly specific and precise in functioning. They have been used for the engineering of numerous metabolic pathways to develop nutrient rich produce. They are also being utilize to decrease the anti-nutrients in crop plants to improve the bioavailability of minerals and vitamins, development of zero calorie/ sugar free potato, undigestable starch rich grains, allergenic gluten free wheat and various other processes. Further they can also be utilized for the mobilization of minerals from unavailable location to the bioavailable location in the grains. Development of new strategies to cope up with the various challenges has always been a top priority in recent years. Agronomical practices, chemical applications, biofortifications and transgenic expression of protein coding genes have been explored to alleviate these problems to some extent. However, new and specific technology is always in demand. The genome engineering tools can be a best alternative for nutritional improvement of agricultural and horticultural crops. Further, it will be highly specific to a particular gene and plant"-- Provided by publisher.

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