VOLUME ONE Chapter 1. Introduction Frans J. de Bruijn Section 1 Focus Chapters Chapter 2. Using genomics to unveil bacterial determinants of rhizosphere life style Maria Ramos-Gonzalez Chapter 3. Benefits of breeding crops for yield response to soil organisms Philip White Chapter 4. Microbial interactions in the Rhizosphere Jose-Miguel Barea Chapter 5. Culture-independent molecular approaches to microbial ecology in soil and the rhizosphere Penny Hirsch Chapter 6. Exploiting new systems-based strategies to elucidate plant-bacterial interactions in the rhizosphere Fergal O''Gara Chapter 7.
Combining molecular microbial ecology with ecophysiology and plant genetics for a better understanding of plant-microbial communities interactions in the rhizosphere Philippe Lemanceau and Christoph Mougel Chapter 8. Microbially Mediated Plant Functional Traits Maren L. Friesen Section 2 Plant-mediated Structuring of Bacterial Communities in the Rhizosphere Chapter 9. Unraveling the shed of unexplored rhizosphere microbial diversity Chandra Nautiyal Chapter 10. Analysis of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere- what do advanced molecular tools tell us about the ecology of interactions? Jan Dirk van Elsas Chapter 11. Challenges in assessing links between root exudates and the structure and function of soil microbial communities Leo Condron Chapter 12. Root secretions: interrelating genes and molecules to microbial associations. Is it all that simple? Harsh Bais Chapter 13.
The use of stable isotope labelling and compound-specific analysis of microbial phospholipid fatty acids to quantify the influences of rhizodeposition on microbial community structure and function Eric Paterson Chapter 14. Metarhizobium robertsii, a rhizosphere-competent insect pathogen that expresses a specific subset of genes in plant root exudate Monica Pava-Ripoll Chapter 15. Shaping of microbial community structure and function in the rhizosphere by four diverse plant species Wafa Achouak Chapter 16. Exploration of hitherto-uncultured bacteria from the rhizosphere Leo van Overbeek Chapter 17. The use of molecular methods to assess chemotactic-competent bacterial populations in the rhizosphere Alison Buchan Chapter 18. Assessment of rice root-associated bacteria Pablo Hardoim Chapter 19. Phylogenetic analysis of Azospirillum species isolated from the rhizosphere of field grown wheat based on genetic and phenotypic features Panagiotis Katinakis Chapter 20. Influence of intercropping and intercropping plus rhizobial inoculation on microbial activity and community composition in rhizosphere of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.
) and siberian wild rye (Elymus sibericus L.) Hong Li Yuan Chapter 21. Root exudates, crucial for molecular understanding of interactions in the rhizosphere Nicholas Uren Chapter 22. Do root exudates exert more influence on rhizosphere bacterial community structure than other rhizodeposits? Penny Hirsch Section 3 Plant Genetics and Rhizobacterial Communities Chapter 23. Arabidopsis thaliana as model in the study of root-inhabiting bacteria Paul Schulze-Lefert Chapter 24. Genetic and developmental control of rhizosphere bacterial communities Shirley Micallef and Adan Colon-Carmona Chapter 25. Arabidopsis thaliana: a useful but limited mosel to investigate stress impacts on rhizosphere community composition and function Gordon Wolfe Chapter 26. Medicago truncatula root proteomics Frank Colditz Section 4 Hormones and other Signals and Rhizomicrobes Chapter 27.
Control of the cooperation.between plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and crops by rhizosphere signals Yvan Moenne-Loccoz and Claire Prigent Combaret Chapter 28. Small molecules involved in transkingdom communication between plants and rhizobacteria Jose Lopez-Bucio Chapter 29. Bacterial biosynthesis of indole-acetic acid: Signal messenger service Sheela Srivastava Chapter 30. Fixing and non-fixing Rhizobia affect Arabidopsis root architecture by interfering with the auxin signalling pathway Bruno Touraine Chapter 31. Terpene production by bacteria and its involvement in plant growth promotion, stress alleviation and yield increase Ruben Bottini Chapter 32 Rapid identification of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria using an agar plate co-cultivation system with Arabidopsis Jose Lopez-Bucio Chapter 33. Strigolactone biosynthesis and biology Harro Bouwmeester Chapter 34. Chemistry of strigolactones: why and how do plants produce so many strigolactones? Koichi Yoneyama Chapter 35.
Strigolactones: crucial cues in the rhizosphere Juan Lopez-Raez Section 5 Endophytes Chapter 36. Bacterial endophytes: Who and where and what they are doing there Natalia Malfanova and Gabriele Berg Chapter 37. Properties of bacterial endophytes leading to maximized host fitness Jan Dirk van Elsas Chapter 38. DNA-Based stable isotope probing for identifying active bacterial endophytes in potato Frank Rasche Chapter 39. Visualization of niches of colonization of Firmicuyes with Bacillus spp in the rhizosphere, rhizoplane and endorhiza of grapevine plants at flowering stage of development by FISH microscopy Stephane Compant; Angela Sessitsch Chapter 40. The poplar endophyte Pseudomonas putida W619 as a key to a succesfull phytoremediation of volatile organic contaminants Nele Weyens Chapter 41. NifH gene expression and nitrogen fixation by diazotrophic endophytes in sugarcane and sweet potato Tadakatsu Yoneyama Chapter 42. Surveying diverse Zea seed for populations of bacterial endophytes Manish Raizada Robert Johnston Monje Section 6 Symbiotic Plant-Microbe Interactions Chapter 43.
Molecular mechanisms governing arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function Martin Parniske Chapter 44. Diversity and evolution of nitrogen-fixing legume symbionts Catharine Masson Chapter 45. Lipochitooligosaccharide perception and the basis of partner recognition in root endosymbioses Julie Cullimore and Clare Gough Chapter 46. Rhizobial genetic repertoire to inhabit legume- and non-legume rhizospheres Esperanza Martinez Romero Chapter 47. Who is controlling whom within the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis: Insights from genomic and functional analyses Francis Martin and Claire Fourrey Chapter 48. Role of carotenoid metabolism in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis Michael Walter Chapter 49. Bacterial colonization of the arbuscular mycorrhizal.fungal hyposphere Tanja Scheublin Chapter 50.
Role of Quorum Sensing in the Sinorhizobium meliloti-Alfalfa Symbiosis Juan Gonzalez Chapter 51. Roles for flavonoids in symbiotic root-rhizosphere interactions Ulrike Mathesius Chapter 52. Exopolysaccharides and Nodule Invasion in the Sinorhizobium meliloti-Alfalfa Symbiosis Juan Gonzalez VOLUME TWO Section 7 PGPR, Biocontrol and Disease-Suppressive Bacteria Chapter 53. Plant growth promotion by microbes Ben Lugtenberg and Gabriele Berg Chapter 54. Microbial control of plant root diseases Ben Lugtenberg and Gabriele Berg Chapter 55. Biocontrol and Osmoprotection for Plants under Saline Conditions Gabriela Berg Chapter 56. Genetics and evolution of 2,4 di acetylphloroglucinol synthesis in Pseudomonas fluorescence John Morrissey Chapter 57. Suppression of crown gall disease by rhizosphere bacteria and Agrobacterium-specific bacteriophages Leonid Chernin Chapter 58.
Molecular-based strategies to exploit the inorganic phosphate solubilization ability of Pseudomonas in sustainable agriculture Fergal O''Gara Chapter 59. The biocontrol bacterium Pseudomonas fluoresens Pf29Arp strain affects the pathogenesis-related gene expression of the take-all fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici on wheat roots Stephanie Daval Chapter 60. Marker-Assisted Selection of Novel Bacteria Contributing to Soilborne Plant Disease Suppression Brian McSpadden Gardener Chapter 61. Combined effects of wheat roots and pathogenic fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis vartritici on Gene Expression of the biocontrol bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf29Arp Alain Sarniguet Chapter 62. Biocontrol of Tree Root Diseases Francisco Cazorla and Clara Piego Chapter 63. Plant growth modulation by bacterial volatiles: a focus on Burkholderia species Laure Weisskopf Chapter 64. Plant growth promoting microorganisms: The road from an academically promising result to a commercial product Faina Kamilova and H.
Mikkelsen Chapter 65. The effect of agricultural practices on resident soil microbial communities: Focus on biocontrol and biofertilization Susana Castro-Sowinski Section 8 Biofilm Formation and Attachment to Roots Chapter 66. Biofilm Formation in the Rhizosphere: Multispecies Interactions and Implications for Plant Growth Ann Hirsch Chapter 67. Probiotics for plants: Rhizospheric microbiome and plant fitness Harsh Bais Chapter 68. Motility, biofilm formation and rhizosphere colonization by Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 Rafael Rivilla and Marta Martin Chapter 69. CMEIAS: An improved computing technology for quantitative image analysis of root colonization by rhizobacteria In Situ a.