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Associative and Endophytic Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria and Cyanobacterial Associations

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Editors:
  1. Claudine Elmerich

    1. Institut Pasteur, Paris

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  2. William E. Newton

    1. Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia

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  • Addresses associations less formalized than the rhizobia-legume associations but have a myriad of effects on their plant hosts
  • Provides up-to-date and in-depth coverage of molecular phylogeny, root colonization, how nitrogen fixation and ammonia assimilation are regulated, phytohormone production, disease biocontrol, plant growth promotion, N2-fixing endophytic associations with rice and sugarcane, heterocyst differentiation and cyanobacterial associations

Part of the book series: Nitrogen Fixation: Origins, Applications, and Research Progress (NITR, volume 5)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
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  2. Historical Perspective: From Bacterization to Endophytes

    • C. Elmerich
    Pages 1-20

  3. Molecular Phylogeny and Ecology of Root Associated Diazotrophic α- and β-Proteobacteria

    • M. Schmid, A. HartMann
    Pages 21-40

  4. Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation and Ammonium Assimilation in Associative and Endophytic Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria

    • F.O. Pedrosa, C. Elmerich
    Pages 41-71

  5. Chemotaxis in Soil Diazotrophs: Survival and Adaptative Response

    • G. Alexandre, I.B. Zhulin
    Pages 73-84

  6. Molecular Genetics of Rhizosphere and Plant-Root Colonization

    • E. Vanbleu, J. Vanderleyden
    Pages 85-112

  7. Microbial Production of Plant Hormones

    • B.E Baca, C. Elmerich
    Pages 113-143

  8. The Plant Growth-Promoting Effect and Plant Responses

    • S. Dobbelaere, Y. Okon
    Pages 145-170

  9. Biocontrol of Plant Diseases by Associative and Endophytic Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

    • R. Bally, C. Elmerich
    Pages 171-190

  10. Endophytic Associations of Azoarcus spp

    • B Reinhold-Hurek, T Hurek
    Pages 191-210

  11. Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Sugarcane

    • V Reis, S Lee, C Kennedy
    Pages 213-232

  12. Heterocyst Differentiation and Nitrogen Fixation in Cyanobacteria

    • R Haselkorn
    Pages 233-255

  13. Cyanobacterial Associations

    • B Bergman, A.N Rai, U Rasmussen
    Pages 257-301

  14. Prospects for Significant Nitrogen Fixation in Grasses From Bacterial Endophytes

    • E. W Triplett
    Pages 303-314

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 315-323
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Associative and Endophytic Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria and Cyanobacterial Associations This book is part of the seven-volume series that was launched a few years ago with the ambitious objectives of reviewing the field of nitrogen fixation from its earliest beginnings through the millennium change and of consolidating the relevant information - from fundamental to agricultural and environmental aspects – all in one place. Volume 5 covers the biology of bacteria that associate with n- leguminous plants. The subject matter includes a wide range of associations; it covers the bacterial species that associate either with the surface or within the tissues of grasses (often referred as plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria) and also the symbiotic associations that cyanobacteria form with fungi, algae, and both lower and higher plants. This volume does not deal with the Frankia-actinorhizal plant associations, which is the topic of Volume 6. The book is divided in 13 chapters, each of which is the work of well-known scientists in the field. Just like in the other volumes of this series, the first chapter is th an historical perspective. It describes how, as early as the end of the 19 century, it was shown that plant exudation favoured the proliferation of soil bacteria in the rhizosphere, and how the first nitrogen-fixing bacteria, including cyanobacteria were isolated. The chapter covers the landmarks and scientific concepts that arose from more than one century of research in this area.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut Pasteur, Paris

    Claudine Elmerich

  • Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia

    William E. Newton

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