Principles and Applications of Soil Microbiology – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128202029,0128202025
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0128202025
- ISBN-13 : 978-0128202029
- Author: Terry Gentry, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, David A. Zuberer
Written by leading experts in their respective fields, Principles and Applications of Soil Microbiology 3e, provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to soil microbiology, and captures the rapid advances in the field such as recent discoveries regarding habitats and organisms, microbially mediated transformations, and applied environmental topics. Carefully edited for ease of reading, it aids users by providing an excellent multi-authored reference, the type of book that is continually used in the field. Background information is provided in the first part of the book for ease of comprehension. The following chapters then describe such fundamental topics as soil environment and microbial processes, microbial groups and their interactions, and thoroughly addresses critical nutrient cycles and important environmental and agricultural applications.
Table contents:
1. Introduction and historical perspective
2. The soil habitat
3. Microbial metabolism
4. Microbial genetics
5. Bacteria and archaea
6. Fungi
7. Cyanobacteria and algae
8. The soil fauna
9. Viruses
10. Microbial ecology
11. Rhizosphere
12. Mycorrhizal symbioses
13. Carbon transformations and soil organic matter formation
14. Applied aspects of soil carbon
15. Transformations of nitrogen
16. Biological dinitrogen (N2) fixation: introduction and nonsymbiotic
17. Biological dinitrogen fixation: symbiotic
18. Microbial transformations of sulfur in soil
19. Phosphorus and selected metals and metalloids
20. Global gases
21. Biodegradation of environmental pollutants
22. Bioremediation of contaminated soils
23. Biological control of soilborne plant pathogens and nematodes
24. Composting: the microbiological processing of organic wastes
25. Soil microbial influences on “One Health”
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