Foreword. Preface. 1. An appraisal of biofertilizers in India; N.S. Subba Rao. 2. Biofertilizers for sustainable crop production; S. Kannaiyan. 3. Biofertilizers for sustaining cereal crops production; S.P. Wani, K.K. Lee. 4. Azospirillum biofertilizer for rainfed crops; K.V.B.R. Tilak, G. Singh. 5. Biochemistry of nitrogen fixation and assimilation; S. Sadasivam, S. Krishnaveni. 6. Host gene expression in nodulation and nitrogen fixation; S. Sadasivam, S. Krishnaveni. 7. Physiology, biochemistry and molecular genetics of legume symbiosis; F.J. Bergersen. 8. Nitrogen fixation in Parasponia; S. Sujatha Lilly, S. Kannaiyan. 9. Production of Rhizobium biofertilizer; N. Boonkerd, P. Singleton. 10. Biofertilizers for grain legumes; G.P. Brahmaprakash, S.V. Hedge. 11. Role of plant flavonoids as signal molecules to Rhizobium; S. Sundaravarathan, S. Kannaiyan. 12. Nitrogen fixation by tree legumes; D.L.N. Rao. 13. Stem nodulating bacteria in legumes; D.E. Fleischman. 14. Nitrogen fixing potential of stem nodulating Sesbania rostrata for rice production; S. Kannaiyan. 15. Influence of Azolla and Sesbania rostrata application on changes in microbial population and enzymes in rice soil; S. Sundaravarathan, S. Kannaiyan. 16. Green Manure potential of Sesbania rostrata for rice; M. Becker, M. Ah, J.K. Ladha, J.C.G. Ottow. 17. Endophytic nitrogen fixation in wheat; B. Benvit Singh, S. Kannaiyan. 18. A profile on algal biofertilizer; S.K. Goyal. 19. Nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria and its potential applications; S. Boussiba. 20. Ecology of nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria (Blue green algae) in rice fields; N. Anand. 21. Azolla as a biofertilizer in Africa: A challenge for the future; F. Carrapico, G. Teixeira, M. Adelia Diniz. 22. Ammonia production by the immobilized cyanobacteria for rice crop; S. Kannaiyan. 23. Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal biofertilizer for tropical forest plants; D.J. Bagyaraj, V.S. Mehrotra, C.K. Suresh. 24. Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhiza as bioinoculant; G. Singh, K.V.B.R. Tilak. 25. Microbial mobilization of phosphorus for higher crop production in arid soils; A.V. Rao, J.C. Tarafdar. 26. Acetobacter diazotrophicus: A new and potential endophytic nitrogen fixing bacterium associated with sugarcane; M. Thangaraju, P. Jayakumar. 27. The cycad-cyanobacterial Symbiosis; S. Sujatha Lilly, S. Kannaiyan. 28. Ammonia production in rice paddies using immobilized cyanobacteria; D.O. Hall, S. Kannaiyan, M. van der Leij.
