Table of Contents

Cyanobacteria and algae as biocontrol agents against fungal and bacterial plant pathogens.- Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in Amelioration of Abiotic Stresses: A Functional Interplay and Prospective.- Seaweeds as indicators and potential remediators of metal pollution.- Role of microorganisms in managing soil fertility and plant nutrition in sustainable agriculture.- Role of endophytic bacteria in alleviation of heavy metals from an ecosystem.- Microbial enzymes and soil health.- Pseudomonas as plant growth promoting bacteria and its role in alleviation abiotic stress.- Plant growth promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) as biocontrol agents against viral protection.- Potential Role of Endophytes in Weeds and Herbicide Tolerance in Plants.- The auspicious role of promoting plant growth of rhizobacteria in the sustainable management of plant diseases.- Microbial bioactive compounds produced by bacteria and fungi and uses in plant health.- Biosynthesis of Nanoparticles by Microorganisms and Applications in Plant Stress Control.- Nano-enabled approaches for the suitable delivery of fertilizer and pesticide for plant growth.- Production of plant hormones from algae and its relation to plant growth.- Role of Trichoderma in agriculture and disease management.- Production of antibiotics from plant growth promoting bacteria and their role in biocontrol of plant diseases.- Role of Phosphate-Solubilising Microorganisms in Agricultural Development.- Cyanobacteria as biofertilizer and its effect under biotic stress.- Microorganism: A potent biological tool to combat Insects and herbivores.- Eco-friendly approaches for the alleviation of root-knot nematodes.- Rhizosphere, Rhizosphere Biology and Rhizospheric Engineering.- Microbial enzymes and role in phytoremidation.

About the Author

Prof. Heba Ibrahim Mohamed IbrahimProfessor of Plant PhysiologyAin Shams UniversityEl Makres St. RoxyCairo 1575 Egypt
Dr. Heba Ibrahim Mohamed is a Professor of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Education, Biological and Geological Sciences Department, Ain Shams University. Dr. Heba had M.Sc and Ph.D in Plant Physiology, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University. Dr. Heba’s research interests include biotic and abiotic stress, plant biochemistry, use of eco-friendly compounds to alleviate plant stress, plant secondary metabolites and genetic differences between different genotypes. She has published, 8 book chapters, 1 review articles and more than 57 research articles in international peer reviewed journals including Agronomy, Plants, Molecules, Sustainability, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Biological Trace Element Research, Photosynthetica, European Journal of Plant Pathologyand other journals. Dr heba is reviewer in journals including Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Scientific reports, The Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology and Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. She also is editor in Journal, Microbial Biosystems. Dr Heba is a member of project titled Genome wide association study GWAS of dodder tolerance in the model plant Medicago truncatula to detect key genetic factors and accelerate MAS in fodder legumes. Belonging to PHC IMHOTEP bilateral Egypt France cooperation in science and technology program 2019. Dr heba has obtained certificate of recognition in honor of achievement in international publication that supports Ain Shams University World Ranking 25/6/2012, 2017, 2018. Dr heba has obtained country encouragement prize in Cairo 2018.

Prof. Hossam El-Din Saad El-Beltagi1Agircultural Biotechnology DepartmentCollege of Agriculture and Food SciencesKingFaisal UniversityAl-Ahsa 31982Saudi Arabia2Biochemistry Department Faculty of Agriculture Cairo University Giza Egypt
Hossam El-Beltagi, Ph.D. is a Professor at Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia and a Professor at Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Hossam research interests include plant biotic and abiotic stress, plant biochemistry, Biotechnology and plant secondary metabolites.  He has published, 5 book chapters, 1 review articles, and more than 102 research articles in international peer reviewed journals including Food Chemistry, PLoS One, International journal of food science and nutrition, Food Biochemistry, Molecules, Sustainability, Animals, Antioxidants, Radiation Physics And Chemistry, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, Grasas y acetes, Gesunde Pflanzen, Journal of Biotechnology, Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici cluj napoca, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, and Journal of medicinal plant research. He is Associate Editor in many International Journals in different publishing houses including Journal of Advanced Research in Elsevier and Notulae Scientia Biologicae, Dr. Hoosam attended more than 25 international conferences and workshops. He has a member of more than 8 international scientific societies. Dr. Hossam reviewer in more than 30 international peer reviewed journals in many publishing houses. He received many Prizes including Ministry of Higher Education Prize for International Publishing Award in top Eigen factor Score journal 2012, Country Encouragement Prize for Agriculture Sciences, 2013. Cairo University Encouragement Prize in advanced technological sciences 2013, Cairo University scientific excellence Prize in the field of interdisciplinary environmental science 2015. Dr. Hossam servedas visiting professor in Biochemistry department in college of science in Granada University, Spain 2017. He served as Consultant in Deanship of Scientific Research in King Faisal University since 2019 to date.

Prof. Kamel Ahmed Abd-Elsalam Plant Pathology Research InstituteAgricultural Research Center (ARC)GizaEgypt
Kamel Abd-Elsalam, Ph.D. is a Research Professor at Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Kamel’s research interests include developing, improving and deploying plant biosecurity diagnostic tools, understanding and exploiting fungal pathogen genomes and developing eco-friendly hybrid nanomaterials for controlling toxicogenic fungi and plant diseases. He has published, 10 book chapters, 6 review articles, 1 translated book, and more than 120 research articles in international peer reviewed journals including Fungal Diversity, Fungal Biology, FEMS Review Microbiology, PLOS One and PLOS Genetics. He is associate editor for Mycosphere, and review editor for Frontiers in Genomic Assay Technology and referees for journals, including the Plant Pathology, Journal of Phytopathology, and Crop Protection, IET Nanotechnology, Fungal Diversity, BMC Genomics, Foodborne Pathogens and Diseases and edited or authored some books. Dr. Kamel has also served as molecular mycologist for 5 years in the Department Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He received the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils Prize for distinguished scientific research in biotechnology (fungal genomics) during 2014 (first ranking). Dr. Kamel has pursued his Ph.D. in Molecular Plant Pathology from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel (Germany) and Suez Canal University (Egypt) and then been awarded postdoctoral fellowship from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel in 2008. Dr. Kamel served as visiting associate professor in Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand, Institute of Microbiology, TUM, Germany, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and Plant Protection Department, Sassari University, Italy.