Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi [Paperback]

Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi integrates work done by pre-eminent scientists, academics, and researchers dedicated to the study of mycorrhizas in laboratories around the world.?The main aim of this book is to compile the information related to mycorrhizas advancement and their applications. First, an overview of the recent advances in mycorrhizal fungi is fully examined. Then, researchers from different countries address issues related to semiarid, xeric, and agro-ecosystems. A greater understanding of the ecology of this type of fungi will underpin efforts to provide new strategies for agriculture production systems and environmental solutions. Finally, relevant topics such as plant stress and ecological succession with regard to mycorrhizal symbioses are discussed. This book will be useful?to those?who work with mycorrhizas and important for?academic and research teams, as well as to teachers, students, professionals and farmers. This information will be a key foundation?to decision-makers worldwide and also for conservationists and ecologists.Preface 1.Overview of recent advances in mycorrhizal fungi 2. Advances in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi taxonomy 3.Genes involved in mycorrhiza formation in plants 4. Plant defense responses induced by mycorrhizal fungi 5. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant biodiversity and loss 6. Interaction of rhizobacteria with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi  and their role in stress abatement in agriculture 7. Mycorrhizal symbiosis of Prosopis laevigata in a xeric shrub ecosystem 8. Abundance of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in different successional phases 9. Recent results related to mycorrhizal fungi and plant stress 10.  Altitudinal distribution of mycorrhizas in mountain ecosystems 11. Mycorrhizal interactions with soil microorganisms 12. Mycorrhizas in bioremediation 13. Ectomycorrhizal inoculation for ecosystem restoration 14. Global diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species in coaslsM