This book explores applications of endophytic fungi in agriculture and plant protection. It provides insights into the potential of these fungi in developing environmentally friendly and sustainable agricultural techniques. This book discusses the use of endophytic fungi as biocontrol agents against plant infections and stressors. It is targeted at farmers, plant pathologists, agricultural researchers, biotechnology experts, and students of biology and agronomy who are interested in learning more about the expanding applications of fungal endophytes in agriculture and plant health. The book examines the role of endophytes and their bioactive metabolites in agricultural yield, plant growth promotion, and plant defence against stress and disease.
Part 1. Agriculture application.
Chapter
1. Enhancing Agroecosystem
Productivity with Endophytic Fungi: Unveiling their Role.
Chapter
2.
Multifunctional Efficacy and Eco-Friendly Applications of Fungal Endophytes.-
Chapter
3. Role of Endophytic Fungi in Induced Resistance to Abiotic
Stresses.
Chapter
4. Endophytic Fungi: A Natural Approach to Plant Growth
Promotion and Sustainable Agriculture.
Chapter
5. Fungal Endophytes and
Their Role in Bio and Phyto- Remediation Applications.
Chapter
6. The
Potential of Fungal Endophytes in Wheat.- Part
2. Plant Protection
Application.
Chapter
7. Endophytic Fungi for Reduction of Mycotoxin
Contamination in Crops.
Chapter
8. Evaluating the Efficacy of Endophytic
Fungal Compounds as Biopesticides in Agriculture.
Chapter
9. Exploring the
Potential Benefits of Trichoderma Species in Agro-Industrial Crop
Production.
Chapter
10. Endophytic Fungi as Promising Sources of Antiviral
Compounds for Plant Virus Pathogens.
Chapter
11. Biosynthesis of Copper
Nanoparticles from Endophytic Fungi and Their Role in Plant Disease
Management.
Chapter
12. Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Endophytic
Fungi and Their Role in Plant Disease Management.
Chapter
13. Biocontrol of
Blight Diseases Using Endophytic Fungi.
Chapter
14. Endophytic Fungi: A
Biocontrol Agents For Postharvest Disease-Causing Pathogenic Fungi.
Chapter
15. The Multifaceted Biocontrol Mechanisms of Endophytic Fungi.
Chapter
16.
Fungal Endophytes and Soil-Borne Fungi.
Chapter
17. Biocontrol Potential of
Endophytic Fungi against Postharvest Grape Pathogens.
Chapter
18. Biological
Control Mechanism of Endophytic Fungi.- Chapter
19. Hidden Allies: Exploring
the Cutting-Edge Insights into the Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Plant
Health.
Chapter
20. Endophytic Fungi Secondary Metabolites and Their
Antimicrobial Activity.
Dr. Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam is currently working as a research professor at the Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. Kamel earned his PhD in molecular plant pathology from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel, Germany, and Suez Canal University, Egypt. Dr. Abd-Elsalams research interests include developing, improving, and deploying plant biosecurity diagnostic tools, and understanding and exploiting fungal pathogen genomes. He also works on developing eco-friendly hybrid nanomaterials for controlling toxicogenic fungi, plant diseases, and agroecosystems applications. He has published 20 books related to nano-biotechnology applications in agriculture and plant protection.
Dr. Amr H. Hashem is currently an associate professor at Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Hashem was granted his PhD in applied mycology from Al-Azhar University in 2018. Dr. Hashems research interests include fungal endophytes and their biomedical and agricultural applications, control of fungal plant pathogens using safe biofungicides, oleaginous fungi, and lipid production from fungi. He has published more than 100 articles indexed in Scopus, and has received the country prize for biological sciences 2021, and Abdel aal Mubasher prize for excellent mycologists 2022.
