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Synopsis
The book, Environmental and Agricultural Microbiology: Applications for Sustainability is divided in to two parts which embodies chapters on sustenance and life cycles of these microorganisms in various environmental conditions, their dispersal, interactions with other inhabited communities, metabolite production and reclamation. Though books pertaining to soil & agricultural microbiology/environmental biotechnology are available, there is a dearth of comprehensive literature on behavior of microorganisms in environmental and agricultural realm. Part 1 includes bioremediation of agrochemicals by microalgae, detoxification of chromium and other heavy metals by microbial biofilm, microbial biopolymer technology including polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and polyhydroxybutyrates (PHB), their production, degradability behaviors and applications. Biosurfactants production and their commercial importance are also systematically represented in this part. Part 2 having 9 chapters and facilitates imperative ideas on approaches for sustainable agriculture through functional soil microbes, next generation crop improvement strategies via rhizosphere microbiome, production and implementations of liquid biofertilizers, mitigation of methane from livestocks, chitinases from microbes, extremozymes, an enzyme from extremophilic microorganism and their relevance in current biotechnology, lithobiontic communities and their environmental importance have been comprehensively elaborated. In the era of sustainable energy production biofuel and other bioenergy products play a key role and their production from microbial sources are frontiers for researchers. The last chapter unveils the importance of microbes and their consortia for management of solid waste in amalgamation with biotechnology.
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Environmental and Agricultural Microbiology
Uniquely reveals the state-of-the-art microbial research/advances in the environment and agriculture fields
Environmental and Agricultural Microbiology: Applications for Sustainability is divided into two parts which embody chapters on sustenance and life cycles of microorganisms in various environmental conditions, their dispersal, interactions with other inhabited communities, metabolite production, and reclamation. Though books pertaining to soil & agricultural microbiology/environmental biotechnology are available, there is a dearth of comprehensive literature on the behavior of microorganisms in the environmental and agricultural realm.
Part 1 includes bioremediation of agrochemicals by microalgae, detoxification of chromium and other heavy metals by microbial biofilm, microbial biopolymer technology including polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and polyhydroxybutyrates (PHB), their production, degradability behaviors, and applications. Biosurfactants production and their commercial importance are also systematically represented in this part. Part 2 having 9 chapters, facilitates imperative ideas on approaches for sustainable agriculture through functional soil microbes, next-generation crop improvement strategies via rhizosphere microbiome, production and implementation of liquid biofertilizers, mitigation of methane from livestock, chitinases from microbes, extremozymes, an enzyme from extremophilic microorganism and their relevance in current biotechnology, lithobiontic communities, and their environmental importance, have all been comprehensively elaborated. In the era of sustainable energy production, biofuel and other bioenergy products play a key role, and their production from microbial sources are frontiers for researchers. The final chapter unveils the importance of microbes and their consortia for management of solid waste in amalgamation with biotechnology
Audience
The book will be read by environmental microbiologists, biotechnologists, chemical and agricultural engineers.
Synopsis
Das Werk Environmental and Agricultural Microbiology: Applications for Sustainability besteht aus zwei Teilen, die Kapitel 1/4ber Versorgung und Lebenszyklen der Mikroorganismen unter verschiedenen Umweltbedingungen, ihre Verbreitung, das Zusammenspiel mit anderen Lebensgemeinschaften, die Herstellung von Metaboliten und die R 1/4ckgewinnung enthalten. Obwohl es auf dem Markt bereits B 1/4cher 1/4ber die Mikrobiologie im Boden und in der Landwirtschaft bzw. 1/4ber Umweltbiotechnologie gibt, fehlt es an umfassender Literatur 1/4ber das Verhalten von Mikroorganismen im Umwelt- und Agrarbereich. Im ersten Teil geht es um die Bioremediation von Agrochemikalien durch Mikroalgen, die Entgiftung von Chrom und anderen Schwermetallen durch mikrobielle Biofilme, Technologien auf Basis mikrobieller Biopolymere wie Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) und Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) sowie deren Produktion, Abbauverhalten und Anwendung. Auch die Herstellung von Biotensiden und deren kommerzielle Bedeutung werden in diesem Teil systematisch betrachtet. Der zweite Teil des Werks umfasst 9 Kapitel, in denen wichtige Ideen zu Nachhaltigkeitsans tzen in der Landwirtschaft vermittelt werden. Themen wie funktionale Bodenmikroben, neuartige Strategien zur Weiterentwicklung von Kulturpflanzen durch das Mikrobiom der Rhizosph re, die Herstellung und Anwendung von fl 1/4ssigen Biod 1/4ngern, die Verringerung des Methanaussto es von Nutztieren, Chitinasen aus Mikroben, Extremozyme, d. h. Enzyme aus extremophilen Mikroorganismen und deren Bedeutung f 1/4r die aktuelle Biotechnologie, sowie lithobiontische Lebensgemeinschaften und ihr Einfluss auf die Umwelt werden umfassend erl utert. Im Zeitalter der nachhaltigen Energieerzeugung spielen Biokraftstoffe und andere Bioenergieprodukte eine wichtige Rolle, daher ist die Herstellung dieser Produkte aus mikrobiellen Quellen eine neue Herausforderung f 1/4r die Forschung. Im letzten Kapitel wird die Bedeutung von Mikroben und Mikrobengemeinschaften f 1/4r die Behandlung fester Abf lle in Kombination mit Biotechnologie betrachtet.