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Advanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
- 1st Edition - May 18, 2023
- Editors: Saurabh Gangola, Saurabh Kumar, Samiksha Joshi, Pankaj Bhatt
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 0 9 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 0 9 1 - 6
Advanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment focuses on plant-microbe interactions in respect to bioremediation and plant growth promotion, provid… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment focuses on plant-microbe interactions in respect to bioremediation and plant growth promotion, providing insights on diverse approaches such as genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and other high-throughput analyses of environmentally relevant microorganisms. The impact of frequent applications of potentially toxic chemicals (pesticides and fertilizers) and increased industrialization processes on microbial diversity emphasizes the potential threat to microbial biodiversity in ecosystems. This is an ideal resource on current trends and the future of PGPR developments with bioremediation potential.
Moreover, it gives a deep understanding of the genetics of microbial biodegradation and different remediation mechanisms that help to re-establish the natural environment.
Moreover, it gives a deep understanding of the genetics of microbial biodegradation and different remediation mechanisms that help to re-establish the natural environment.
- Helps readers find sustainable ways for environmental clean-up and increased agricultural productivity
- Gives a systematic overview of the role of PGPR in bioremediation, selection and preparation of potential PGPR microbial inoculum for bioremediation, biodegradation and plant growth promotion
- Illustrates the importance of PGPR in the bioremediation of potentially hazardous and relatively novel compounds with the maintenance of sustainable agricultural productivity
- Addresses emerging novel approaches of PGPR-based biodegradation of toxic compounds and highlights key developments and challenges associated with the processes
Scientists in academia, research laboratories, and industry, Environmental microbiologists, agricultural microbiologists, bioremediation experts, and various other related areas; students, teachers, and researchers, both in universities and research institutes, especially working in areas of microbiology, environmental science, soil science, plant pathology
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Recent molecular and omics approaches to study rhizosphere functioning
- Introduction
- Techniques for fingerprinting
- Omics approaches
- Recent omics methodologies to study rhizosphere dynamics
- Metagenomics
- Metaproteomics
- Metatranscriptomics
- Metametabolomics
- Challenges linked with multi-omics analysis of rhizosphere
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2. Role of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant microorganisms toward the development of hill agriculture
- Introduction
- Hill agroecosystems and problems associated with hill agriculture
- Influence of biotic and abiotic factors on hill agriculture productivity
- Psychrophilic microorganisms and their adaptation mechanisms
- Applications of psychrophilic microbes in reclamation of soil health
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Remediation of heavy metals by rhizospheric bacteria and their mechanism of detoxification
- Introduction
- Biological availability of metals in soil
- Heavy metals and ecotoxicity
- Challenges and possible solution for heavy metal detoxification
- Bioremediation
- The urgency for metal bioremediation
- Mechanism of heavy metals detoxification using microorganisms
- Use of recombinant rhizobia for bioremediation
- Use of metallothionein and phytochelatins for metal sequestration
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Microbial exopolysaccharides and their application for bioremediation of environmental pollutants
- Introduction
- Types and chemical composition of EPS
- Biosynthetic pathways
- General pathway
- Biosynthesis by sucrase enzyme
- Wzx/Wzy dependent pathway
- ABC transporter pathway
- Synthase-dependent pathway
- Applications of microbial polysaccharide for environmental pollutant remediation
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Insight into enzyme assisted degradation of environmental contaminants
- Introduction
- Oxidoreductase
- Oxygenase
- Monooxygenase
- Dioxygenase
- Laccase
- Peroxidase
- Lignin peroxidase
- Manganese peroxidase
- Horseradish peroxidase
- Hydrolase
- Lipase
- Cellulase
- Carboxylesterase
- Phosphotriesterase
- Haloalkane dehalogenases
- Enzyme-based tools and advanced techniques
- Genetic engineering
- Enzyme engineering
- Enzyme immobilization
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Technological advancement in tool and technique used for biodegradation analysis
- Introduction
- Bioinformatics tools
- Pathway prediction systems for biodegradation
- Next-generation sequencing method
- Techniques used in biodegradation studies
- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- High-pressure liquid chromatography
- Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis
- Gel permeation chromatography
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Another method used to monitor biodegradation of bioplastics
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Role of hidden microbes in sustainable agriculture
- Introduction
- Various kinds of microbes found in association with plants
- Methods to study microbes associated to plants
- Role of microbes in promoting sustainable agriculture
- Efficient delivery methods of beneficial microbes to the crops
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Rhizosphere engineering for sustainable agriculture
- Introduction
- Rhizosphere and rhizosphere engineering
- Rhizosphere engineering through plant growth–promoting rhizobacteria
- How PGPR work in rhizosphere to enhance plant productivity?
- Biocontrol of plant pathogens
- Production of siderophores
- Production of lytic enzymes
- Chitinase
- Protease
- Glucanase
- Antibiosis
- Induction of host resistance
- Regulation of ISR and SAR signal transduction pathways
- Conclusion and future prospects
- Chapter 9. Role of microorganisms in agricultural waste management
- Introduction
- Components of agricultural waste
- Microbes involved in agricultural waste management
- Chapter 10. Tracking of soil microbial inoculates for sustainable agriculture
- Introduction
- Methods used for detection of microbial population
- Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis
- Polymerase chain reaction
- Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis/temperature gradient gel electrophoresis
- Random amplified polymorphic DNA and DNA amplification fingerprinting
- Amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis
- Amplified fragment length polymorphisms
- Fluorescent in situ hybridization
- Ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis
- DNA Microarray Technologies
- Molecular biosensors
- Nucleic acids–based stable isotope probing
- Pyrosequencing and metagenomic libraries
- Conclusion
- Future prospects
- Chapter 11. Role of plant growth–promoting rhizobacteria in sustainable agriculture
- Introduction
- Different taxa identified as PGPR
- Mechanisms of action of PGPR
- Role of PGPR in sustainable agriculture
- Practical constraints in bringing from lab to land
- Tips to get a good response to PGPR application
- Precautions before PGPR application
- Future line of work
- Chapter 12. PGPR-mediated mitigation of biotic and abiotic stress in plants
- Introduction
- Plant growth–promoting rhizobacteria
- The role of rhizospheric microbes in plant stress tolerance
- The role of plant growth–promoting bacteria
- Plant-associated fungi confer stress tolerance to plants
- Applications of PGPR
- Mechanism shown by PGPR
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13. The future of PGPR-based plant growth promotion and bioremediation technologies
- Introduction
- Potential roles of PGPR for sustainable agriculture
- Latest advancements in the application of PGPR
- Current challenges in PGPR-based bioformulation
- Commercialization of PGPR
- In future, works can be focused on
- Conclusion
- Chapter 14. Microbial remediation for environmental cleanup
- Introduction
- Ex situ techniques
- In situ bioremediation techniques
- Permeable reactive barriers
- Factors affecting microbial bioremediation
- Site characterization and selection
- Metal ions and toxic compounds
- Microbial bioremediations
- Mechanism of the bioremediation
- Function of biofilms in the process of bioremediation
- Microbial enzymes used in bioremediation
- Bioremediation using microbial bioreactors
- Microbial bioreactors in bioremediation
- Conclusion and future prospects
- Index
- No. of pages: 306
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 18, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323950909
- eBook ISBN: 9780323950916
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Saurabh Gangola
Saurabh Gangola is currently an Assistant Professor at Graphic Era Deemed to be University in the Department of Microbiology, Dehradun, India. He has completed his MSc and PhD in Microbiology from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in Pantnaga, India. His area of specialization is bioremediation and biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds (including pesticides, hydrocarbons, and azo dye), degradation kinetics, microbial stress-responsive enzymes, bioinformatics, molecular biology, plant-microbe interaction, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, culturable and unculturable microorganisms, and metagenomics. He has published several research papers, review papers in highly reputed journals, book chapters, edited books (Springer and Elsevier) and also published patents. He has edited special issues as a guest editor in Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Microbiology. He has been a valued editorial board member of several national and international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Department of Microbiology, Dehradun, IndiaSK
Saurabh Kumar
Saurabh Kumar works in Agricultural Microbiology at ICAR- Research Complex for Eastern Region in Patna, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Agricultural Microbiology, ICAR- Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna, IndiaSJ
Samiksha Joshi
Samiksha Joshi is currently an Assistant Professor, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Himalayan School of Biosciences, Department of Biosciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. She has completed her MSc and PhD in Microbiology from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnaga, India. Her area of expertise is microbiology, molecular biology, plant-microbe interaction, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, metagenomics, biodegradation, and bioremediation. She has published 8 research and review articles in reputed international journals and has authored 8 book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Himalayan School of Biosciences, Department of Biosciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, IndiaPB
Pankaj Bhatt
Dr. Pankaj Bhatt completed his PhD. in microbiology from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. His research focused on the molecular and microbiological basis of bioremediation. Dr Bhatt has published several articles in high impact factor leading journals including Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Chemosphere, Environmental research, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, and 3-Biotech. He has also published several book chapters on microbial biotechnology. Presently he is working as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou China.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Dolphin (P.G) College of Biomedical and Natural Sciences Dehradun, IndiaRead Advanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment on ScienceDirect