1 Soil health: Past history and future perspective
Bhoopander Giri and Ajit Varma
Department of Botany
Swami Shraddhnanand College
University of Delhi
Delhi
Email: bhoopg@yahoo.com
2 Organic farming in relation to soil health
Prof Nguyễn Huệ
Professor of Environmental and Soil Chemistry
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Hawaii at Manoa
nvhue@hawaii.edu
3 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria: A Booster for Ameliorating Soil Health and Agriculture ProductionDr. S. C. Shankhdhar
Senior Research Officer/Associate Professor
Department of Plant Physiology
College of Basic Sciences & Humanities
G.B.Pant University of Agriculture & Technology
Pantnagar-263145 (Uttarakhand), India
Contact No. 91-9412864897
shankhdhar.sc@rediffmail.com
4 Vermicomposting and soil health
Dr. Ranjit Chatterjee
Professor in Vegetable and Spice crops
UBKV, Pundibari, West Bengal
Email: ranchat22@rediffmail.com
5 Impact of agricultural practice on soil health Dr. Elizabeth Temitope Alori
Lecturer at Landmark University
Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria. Email: aloritope@yahoo.com
6 Biochar for maintaining soil healthDr Adekiya Aruna Olasekan
Address: College of Agricultural Sciences,
Landmark University, PMB 1001, Omu-Aran, Kwara State Nigeria
Email: adekiya2009@yahoo.com
7 Wild plants from coastal habitats as a potential resource for soil remediation.
Prof. Gederts Ievinsh
Department of Plant Physiology
Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia 1 Jelgavas Str., Riga LV-1004, Latvia.
E-amil: gederts.ievins@lu.lv
8 Soil Health and Foliar Fertilisers
Dr Apostolos PapadopoulosUniversity of Lincoln
Riseholme College, Riseholme Park
Lincoln, LN2 2LG
United Kingdom
Email: apostolos@cropintellect.co.uk
9 Arthropods and Soil Health.
Dr Thomas W. Culliney
USDA-APHIS, PPQ
Center for Plant Health Science and Technology
Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory
1730 Varsity Drive, Suite 300
Raleigh, NC 27606 U.S.A.
(919) 855-7506; (919) 855-7595 (Fax).
E-mail thomas.w.culliney@usda.gov
10 Role of soil microbes in maintaining soil health and sustainable agriculture production
Dr (Mrs) Neemisha
Assistant Microbiologist (Soil Science)
Department of Soil Science
Punjab Agricultural University
Ludhiana 141004
Punjab, India
Email: neemisha14@pau.edu
11 Abiotic and Biotic Factors Influencing Soil Health
Dr. K.S. Anil KumarPrincipal Scientist
ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning,
Regional Centre,
Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka India
Email: anilsoils@yahoo.co.in Mob: 7406376178
12 Assessment of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as soil health indicators
Dr. Manju M Gupta
Associate Professor in Botany
Sri Aurobindo College
University of Delhi
Delhi-17 India
Email:
About the Author:
Dr. Bhoopander Giri received his Ph.D in Mycorrhizal Research from the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, in 2001. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, USA and is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany, Swami Shraddhanand College, University of Delhi. He is a recipient of a CSIR Research Associateship (2003), DST Young Scientist Fellowship (2005) and a Raman Post-Doctoral Fellowship. He has served as the General Secretary of the International Symbiosis Society (ISS), USA, and he is a life-member of several prestigious academic societies. He is also a reviewer for several international and national journals. Dr. Giri has published more than 38 papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals and books. His paper "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in alleviation of salt stress," published in Annals of Botany, Oxford Press, UK was listed among the top 10 cited publications in 2009-2014 in the area of biological science and agriculture by the International Comparative Performance of India's Research Base. Dr. Giri has also edited numerous books.
Prof. Dr. Ajit Varma completed his PhD at Allahabad University at the age of 25 years, and is a former Professor at the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He is currently a Distinguished Scientist & Professor of Eminence at Amity Institute of Microbial Technology; Group Dy. Vice Chancellor, Ritnand Balved Education Foundation, and Vice Chairman of Amity Science, Technology & Innovation Foundation, Amity University, India. He has published more than 314 papers in respected journals and has been serving as an Editor-in-Chief of the Soil Biology Series, Springer Verlag Germany. Dr Varma is a Fellow of Alexander-von-Humboldt Society, Germany, elected Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Fellow of the Microbiology Society of India.
