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The microorganisms are of utmost importance to the survival of plants, animals, and humans. Microorganisms interact with their hosts in both positive and negative manners. Therefore, the microorganisms and the technologies based on the microbial processes find many useful applications in the sustainable development of environment, energy, health, and agriculture. The improvements in crop productivity and management of plant diseases require a good understanding of the interactions between microorganisms with different parts of the plants. The plant–microbiome interaction denotes the genome of all the microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, living in and on various parts of plants. In recent times, significant technological progress has been made to improve our understanding of the plant‐microbiome or phytomicrobiome interactions. In order to make agriculture sustainable, it is indeed necessary to learn about various concepts and advances in this field.

This book includes a discussion on some basic concepts, including rhizosphere and phyllospheremicrobiome, analysis of root exudates, role of phytomicrobiome in biotic and abiotic stress management, etc. The book also covers advanced information about metagenomics and proteomics studies in relation to plant microbial community analysis. Modern sustainable practices, including rhizosphere engineering, have also been touched upon.

After numerous deliberations, we came up with the idea to explore the possibility of developing a book on phytomicrobiome interactions and sustainable agriculture. We had in our mind to develop a book that will be beneficial for teachers and students, as well as researchers. Therefore, we invited a variety of researchers and convinced them to contribute the chapters for this book.

We are thankful to our family, friends, students, teachers, and mentors who acted as a source of inspiration to us. At this point we must appreciate the kind gesture of the entire Wiley team, especially Rebecca Ralf (Commissioning Editor), Athira Menon (Project Editor), and Kerry Powell (Managing Editor) who gave us support and showed trust in our capabilities. They generously extended the book timelines in the hard times of the COVID‐19 pandemic and kept supporting us continuously, and as a result, we were able to complete this book in its present form.

This has been our maiden effort to produce a book on phytomicrobiome interactions for the sustainable development of agriculture to help students, teachers, and researchers. We hope that we will get support from the readers of the book. We are always open for criticism, suggestions, and recommendations that can help us to explore other aspects of phytomicrobiome interactions for improving crop productivity.

We dedicate this book to all the persons who are directly or indirectly serving the people affected by COVID‐19.

Amit Verma

Jitendra Kumar Saini

Abd El‐Latif Hesham

Harikesh Bahadur Singh

India, July 2020