New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering

1. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria - Advances and Future Prospect2. Prospects of beneficial microbes as a natural resource for sustainable legumes production under changing climate3. Trichoderma as biostimulant - a plausible approach to alleviate abiotic stress for intensive production practices4. Mode of Action of Different Microbial Products in Plant Growth Promotion5. Role of AM fungi in growth promotion of high-value crops6. Pseudomonas and Bacillus: A biological tool for crop protection7. Underlying forces of plant microbiome and its effect on the plant development8. Plant Viruses as Biopesticides9. Microalgal based biostimulants as alleviators of biotic and abiotic stress in crop plants10. Utilization of omics approaches for underpinning plant-microbe interaction11. Extremophiles for Sustainable Agriculture12. Seed biopriming with biopesticide: A key to sustainability of agriculture13. Insights into novel cell immobilized microbial inoculants14. Role of Mycorrhizosphere as a biostimulant and its impact on plant growth, nutrient uptake and stress management15. Trichoderma spp. as Bio-stimulants: Molecular Advances16. Enhancing the growth and disease suppression ability of Pseudomonas fluorescens17. Synthetic Biology Tools: Engineering Microbes for Biotechnological Applications18. Role of Microbial Consortia in remediation of soil, water and environmental pollution caused by indiscriminate use of chemicals in agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges19. Sustainable agriculture and viral diseases of plants: An overview20. Enhancement of plant nutrient uptake by bacterial biostimulants