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Unit 1
Agricultural microbiology
Nidhi Jodhwani
What is agricultural microbiology?
 Field of study concerned with plant associated microbes
 Also deals with the microbiology of soil fertility ( microbial
degradation of organic matter and soil nutrient transformations)
Why we need to study this?
 Man depends on plants for their food and in turn plants depends
upon microbes for their nutrition
1.1 History and development of agricultural
microbiology
 history and development of agri micro
 Father of microbial ecology
 Sergie winogradsky
 Father of soil microbiology
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