Books/Book chapters

Note: the books provided here are mostly for personal circulation, mainly for the socially and economically poor students, as the author of this webpage I am aware that "personal circulation of electronic format" is against the copyright norms, however, I use this method owing to the "unequivocal educational value of these contents".

 If still any publisher or author of the books provided below has objection or reservation against their book usage for educational purpose of the socially and economically downtrodden community, please feel free to inform your concern in vigsaran@gmail.com.  

Eldor A. Paul-Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition-Academic Press (2014).pdf

This book deals about the basics of soil microbiology, especially the degradation of the organic matter, nutrient cycles including C,  N, P, K, S 

AGRICULTURAL-MICROBIOLOGY.pdf

This book is an undergraduate level book  prepared by ICAR and it deals several topics of Agricultural Microbiology 

The following are the book chapters or review paper that could be useful for the subject learning 

Biofertilizers and sustainability.pdf

A complete review that deals about the use of biofertilizers with respect to crop plants, their types and uses  

The Littlest Farm Hands_Science-2015-de Vrieze-680-3.pdf

A small interesting article dealing about the soil microbiology 

Story of Comammox.pdf

This article deals with the discovery of Comammox - complete ammonia oxidizing bacteria and the difference between the nitrification process and Comammox, the type of organisms involved in this process. 

The Art of isolating N2 fixing bacteria from non legiminous plant using N free malic acid media_a practical guide for microbiologists_ Baldani etr al 2014.pdf

A highly refereed article that explains about the isolation and morphological identification of the N2 fixing bacteria 

TNAU Liquid Biofertilizer for rice.pdf

A technical bulletin prepared by the Dept. of Agrl Microbiology, TNAU about the application of different types of liquid biofertilizers in rice crop 

Soil and Agricultural Microbiology (SMB2201: Notes) Prepared by Dept. of Biotechnology, School of Bio and Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama  Institute of Science and Technology to download it click HERE