Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management

Jeyabalan Sangeetha, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Central University of Kerala at Kasaragod, South India. She earned her BSc in Microbiology and PhD in Environmental Science from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. She served as a Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow and as an UGC Postdoctoral Fellow at Karnatak University, Dharwad, South India, with funding from the University Grants Commission.Devarajan Thangadurai, PhD, is Senior Assistant Professor at Karnatak University in South India and Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering and Acta Biologica Indica. He has authored or edited over twenty books and has also visited many countries for academic visits, scientific meetings, and international collaborations.Saher Islam, MPhil, is an International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP) Scholar at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA; a PhD candidate in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology; and a Higher Education Commission Scholar of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.