Academic Press Microbial Syntrophy-mediated Eco-enterprising (Developments in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology)

Microbial Syntrophy-Mediated Eco-enterprising summarizes and reviews possible microbial applications for eco-industrial sustainability. The book emphasizes a wide spectrum of experimental and theoretical contributions from eminent researchers in the field. In 13 chapters, there is a focus on the microbial intrusions for remediating sites by accumulated pesticides, heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and other industrial effluents. Moreover, the potentiality and key mechanisms used by microorganisms for sustainable environmental management and their prospects are also considered in this new release. The term syntrophy for nutritional interdependence is often used in microbiology to describe the symbiotic relationship between bacterial species. Understanding such interactions can be of considerable interest when we come to manipulate microbes to our own benefit, such as by disrupting pathogenic communities with antibiotics or by promoting efficiency in communities that produce energy or break down waste. Review Presents the latest on microbial interaction-mediated products and by-products for applications in agriculture, industrial, clinical and commercial uses From the Back Cover <p>The term syntrophy for nutritional interdependence is often used in microbiology to describe this symbiotic relationship between bacterial species. Understanding such interactions can be of considerable interest when we come to manipulate microbes to our own benefit, such as by disrupting pathogenic communities with antibiotics or by promoting efficiency in communities that produce energy or break down waste.</p> <p><i>Microbial Syntrophy-Mediated Eco-enterprising</i> aims at summarizing and reviewing the possible microbial applications for eco-industrial sustainability. Emphasis has been made to include a wide spectrum of experimental and theoretical contributions from eminent researchers in the field. In 13 chapters there is a focus on the microbial intrusions for remediating sites by accumulated pesticides, heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and other industrial effluents. Moreover, the potentiality and key mechanisms, used by microorganisms for sustainable environmental management and their prospects, are considered in Microbial Syntrophy-mediated Eco-enterprising. </p> About the Author Raghvendra Pratap Singh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Research & Development, Biotechnology, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun, India. His research area is in ecology of myxobacteria, plant-microbes interaction, and microbial genomics. Dr Geetanjali Manchanda, Department of Botany and Environmental Studies, DAV University, Jalandhar, India Dr Geetanjali is Head of the Botany Department in DAV University, Jalandhar, India. She received her MSc degree from Delhi University and her PhD from Panjab University, Chandigarh. She has extensively worked on plant microbe interactions in stressed and contaminated environments, with special focus on mycorrhizae for the fortification of various crops. She has received prestigious research grants from DST, India and IFS, Sweden. She has contributed prolifically to the scientific community by publishing research papers and book chapters. She had recently authored three books one of which is on the use of omics technology for microbiology, published by ICAR, India. Dr Kaushik Bhattacharjee, Division of Life Sciences, Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Guwahati, India. Dr Kaushik Bhattacharjee received his PhD in microbiology from the North-Eastern Hill University of India, by conducting research into the inter-disciplinary field of microbial diversity in extreme environments, pharmaceutical microbiology, and medicinal chemistry. His post-doctoral training was at the Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University of India and at IASST, Guwahati, India. He has so far contributed over 20 publications in journals of hi