Current trends in microbial biotechnology for sustainable agriculture 1 Soil Microbiomes for Healthy Nutrient Recycling 2 Soil Microbial Diversity: Calling Citizens for Sustainable Agricultural Development 3 Metagenomics in deciphering microbial communities associated with medicinal plants 4 Role of Metagenomics in Deciphering the Microbial Communities Associated with Rhizosphere of Economically Important Plants 5 Plant Microbe Association for Mutual Benefits for Plant Growth and Soil Health 6 Deciphering and Harnessing Plant microbiomes: Detangling the Patterns and Process A Clean Green Road to Sustainable Agriculture 7 Rhizosphere Biology: A Key to Agricultural Sustainability 8 Rhizosphere Microbiomes and their Potential Role in Increasing Soil Fertility and Crop Productivity 9 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): Current and Future Prospects for Crop Improvement 10 Beneficial Microbiomes for Sustainable Agriculture: An Ecofriendly Approach 11 Endophytic Microbiomes and their Plant Growth Promoting Attributes for Plant Health 12 Mycorrhiza: A Sustainable Option for Better Crop Production 13 Phyllospheric Microbes: Diversity Functions Interaction and Applications in Agriculture 14 Mitigation Strategies for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants through Stress Tolerant Plant Growth Promoting Microbes 15 Plant and Microbes Mediated Secondary Metabolites: Remunerative venture for Discovery and Development 16 Potential Strategies for Control of Agricultural Occupational Health Hazards 17 Insecticides Derived from Natural Products: Diversity and Potential Applications 18 Bacillus thuringiensis as Potential Biocontrol Agent for Sustainable Agriculture 19 Entomopathogenic Microbes for Sustainable Crop Protection: Future Perspectives 20 Soil Microbes as Biopesticides: Agricultural Applications and Future Prospects 21 Biofertilizers for Agricultural Sustainability: Current Status and Future Challenges 22 Current Trends in Microbial Biotechnology for Agricultural Sustainability: Conclusion and Future Challenges. . Microbial biotechnology is an emerging field with applications in a broad range of sectors involving food security human nutrition plant protection and overall basic research in the agricultural sciences. The environment has been sustaining the burden of mankind from time immemorial and our indiscriminate use of its resources has led to the degradation of the climate loss of soil fertility and the need for sustainable strategies. The major focus in the coming decades will be on achieving a green and clean environment by utilizing soil and plant associated beneficial microbial communities. Plant microbe interactions include the association of microbes with plant systems: epiphytic endophytic and rhizospheric. The microbes associated with plant ecosystems play an important role in plant growth development and soil health. Moreover soil and plant microbiomes help to promote plant growth either directly or indirectly by means of plant growth promoting mechanisms e.g. the release of plant growth regulators; solubilization of phosphorus potassium and zinc; biological nitrogen fixation; or by producing siderophores ammonia HCN and other secondary metabolites. These beneficial microbial communities represent a novel and promising solution for agro environmental sustainability by providing biofertilizers bioprotectants and biostimulants in addition to mitigating various types of abiotic stress in plants. This book focuses on plant microbe interactions; the biodiversity of soil and plant microbiomes; and their role in plant growth and soil health. Accordingly it will be immensely useful to readers working in the biological sciences especially microbiologists biochemists and microbial biotechnologists. .