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Mycorrhizal Fungi in South America Biodiversity, Conservation, and Sustainable Food Production

By: Mónica Alejandra Lugo(Editor), Marcela Claudia Pagano(Editor)
465 pages, 58 colour photos and colour illustrations, 7 b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
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In order to feed the world, global agriculture will have to double food production by 2050. As a result, the use of soils with fertilizers and pesticides in agronomic ecosystems will increase, taking into account the sustainability of these systems and also the provision of food security. Thus, soil ecosystems, their health, and their quality are directly involved in sustainable agronomical practices, and it is important to recognize the important role of soil microbial communities such as mycorrhizal fungi, their biodiversity, interactions, and functioning. Soil ecosystems are under the threat of biodiversity loss due to an increase in cultivated areas and agronomic exploitation intensity. Also, changes in land use alter the structure and function of ecosystems where biodiversity is vital in the ecosystem.

Soils are a major aid in food production in all terrestrial ecosystems; however, this means they are also involved in gas emissions and global warming. Thus, in agronomic ecosystems, several mitigation practices have been proposed to promote the increase of carbon soil stock and the reduction of warming gas emissions from soils. In South America, most of the rural population depends economically on agriculture and usually works in family units. New, organic, safe, and sustainable agro-forestry practices must be applied to support local communities and countries to achieve hunger eradication, rural poverty reduction, and sustainable development.

This book compiles new information on mycorrhizal occurrence in natural and anthropic environments in South America. It includes new reports of mycorrhizal fungi diversity along different mycorrhizal types and their effect on plant communities, plant invasions, the use of mycorrhizal fungi for ecological and sustainable studies, management programs of natural and agroecosystems, and forestry and food-secure production. This book fills the gaps in biodiversity knowledge, management and safe food production of mycorrhizas. It should be a valuable help to researchers, professors and students, to aid in the use of mycorrhizal fungi while also focusing on their biodiversity, sustainable safe food production, and conservation perspectives.

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Mónica Alejandra Lugo was born in Tigre, Argentina. She taught for 28 years at high schools and universities such as the National University of Buenos Aires, National University of Córdoba and the National University of San Luis; and her current positions are Adjunct professor (Biology Department, FQByF, National University of San Luis) to Bachelor of Biological Sciences and to Professor in Biological Sciences, becoming Professor of Vegetal Diversity I, Plant-Fungi interactions: Mycophyllas and Mycorrhizas, Biology of Protist and Fungi and Fungi and Vegetal Systematic. She won three Doctoral Scholarships (1994-1999) and a Postdoc Fellowship (1999-2001). Further, she is the Director of the Mycology, Diversity and Fungal Interaction Herbarium (MICODIF) of the National University of San Luis-SNDB (National System of Biological Data-Argentina).

Marcela Pagano was born in La Plata, Argentina. She taught for some years at high schools and universities. In 2018 she was appointed as a Technical analyst in Health Promotion and Management at Sanitary Surveillance Board, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Prior to that, she spent over 10 years in mycorrhizal research, completing her PhD at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and four postdoctoral fellowships.

By: Mónica Alejandra Lugo(Editor), Marcela Claudia Pagano(Editor)
465 pages, 58 colour photos and colour illustrations, 7 b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
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