Agricultural Microbiology

The primary goal of agricultural microbiology is to comprehensively explore the interactions between beneficial microorganisms like bacteria and fungi with crops.

Bacteria are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.

Selman Abraham Waksman (22 July [O.S. 10 July] 1888, August 16, 1973) was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics.

Mariangela Hungria da Cunha (born 6 February 1958) is a Brazilian agronomist and microbiologist noted for pioneering work on biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) and the use of beneficial soil bacteria as microbial inoculants for tropical crops.

Ilan Chet (Hebrew: אילן חת; born April 12, 1939) is an Israeli microbiologist and a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot.

Govindachetty Rangaswami (10 May 1925-7 September 2005), commonly referred to as G. Rangaswami, was an Indian agricultural scientist and administrator known for his contributions to agricultural microbiology, plant pathology, and sericulture.

He is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the American Academy of Microbiology.

Joachim Wilhelm "Jo" Messing (September 10, 1946, September 13, 2019) was a German-American biologist who was a professor of molecular biology and the fourth director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University.