Main description:

This contributed volume provides insights into multiple applications using microbes to promote productivity in agriculture, to produce biochemicals or to respond to challenges in biomedicine. It highlights the microbial production of nanocompounds with medical functionality alongside new anti-mycobacterial strategies, and introduces plant-growth-promoting Rhizobacteria as well as the correlation between biofilm formation and crop productivity. Further, the authors illustrate the green synthesis of biochemical compounds, such as hydroxamid acid or biosurfactants, using microbial and fungal enzymes. It inspires young researchers and experienced scientists in the field of microbiology to explore the combined use of green, white and red biotechnology for industrial purposes, which will be one of the central topics for future generations.

Contents:

A. Biomedicine

1) Role of Bacteria in Nanocompounds formation and their Application in Medical
Rubbel Singla, Anika Guliani, Avnesh Kumari, Sudesh Kumar Yadav

2) Microbial Source of Melatonin and Its Clinical Aspects
Sanjay Kumar*, Brendan P Mulligan, Shreesh Ojha, Alex H Tinson

3) Major Source of Marine Actinobacteria and its Biomedical application
Ram Baskaran, Ashok Kumar, Wu Zuo, Gaobing Wu, Mohammad Asadur Rahman, JunPeng Chen, Shaowei Zhang

4) Antimycobacterial Agents: To Target or Not to Target
Andaleeb Sajid*, Gunjan Arora, Richa Virmani, and Anshika Singhal

B. Agriculture

5) Microbial Biofilm: Role in crop productivity
Bhagwan Rekadwad, and Chandrahasya Khobragade

6) Bacterial quorum sensing (QS) in rhizosphere (paddy soil): Understanding soil signaling and N- recycling for increased crop production
Bhagwan Rekadwad, and Chandrahasya Khobragade

7) Use of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria as biocontrol agents. Induced systemic resistance against biotic stress in plants.
Maria Victoria Salomon, Ivan Funes Pinter, Patricia Piccoli, Ruben Bottini

8) Biological Routes for the Synthesis of Platform Chemicals from Biomass Feedstocks
Md. Imteyaz Alama, Mohammad Asif Alib, Shelaka Guptaa, M. Ali Haider

C. Industry

9) Green synthesis of hydroxamic acid and its potential industrial applications
Bhatia Ravi Kant, Bhatia Shashi Kant, Bhalla Tek Chand and Bhatt Arvind Kumar

10) Bioactive Natural Products: An overview- with particular emphasis on those possessing potential to inhibit microbial quorum sensing
Vijay Kothari*, Pooja Patel, and Chinmayi Joshi

11) Fungi imperfecti laccase: Biotechnological potential and perspectives
Bhagwan Rekadwad, Chandrahasya Khobragade

12) Biosurfactants: a multifunctional microbial metabolite
Neha Panjiar, Shashwati Ghosh Sachan, and Ashish Sachan

13) Bioproduction of polyhydroxyalkanoate from plant oils
Fakhrul Ikhma Bin Mohd Fadzil, Takeharu Tsuge

14) Microbial Synthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoates: Diversification
Qi Wang*, and Changshui Liu

15) Microbe derived itaconic acid: Novel route for biopolyamides
Mohammad Asif Ali, and Tatsuo Kaneko

16) Basics of Methanogenesis in Anaerobic Digester
Vinay Patel+, Soumya Pandit+, Kuppam Chandrasekhar

17) Laccases: Blue Copper Oxidase in Lignocellulose Processing
Dayanand C Kalyani, Jogi Madhuprakash, and Svein Jarle Horn