@article{1434435,
      recid = {1434435},
      author = {Seneviratne, Gamini, and Zavahir, Junaida Shezmin,},
      title = {Role of microbial communities for sustainability /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 379 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book is about the role played by microbes in their  community mode in sustaining ecosystems. The descriptions  given in its chapters indicate clearly that microbial  communities are more effective in delivering multifaceted  benefits to the soil-plant system than those offered by  microbial monocultures in planktonic modes. The role these  communities play in a multitude of microbe-microbe and  plant-microbe interactions have not yet been fully  exploited to gain benefits in this field as well as to  achieve sustainability in agriculture practices. Amply  discussed are the beneficial characteristics and metabolic  capacities of specific microbial groups and the use of  microbial traits for the benefit of plant growth. The book  suggests the need to develop new microbial technologies to  utilize plant-associated microbes for increased crop  productivity and agroecosystem balance in order to ensure  sustainability. This also provides an effective guidance to  scientists, academics, researchers, students and policy  makers of the sphere to achieve the above outcomes.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1434435},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9912-5},
}