BookTulasi Satyanarayana, Subrata Kumar Das, Bhavdish Narain Johri, editors.
Summary: This volume comprehensively reviews recent advances in our understanding of the diversity of microbes in various types of terrestrial ecosystems, such as caves, deserts and cultivated fields. It is written by leading experts, and highlights the culturable microbes identified using conventional approaches, as well as non-culturable ones unveiled with metagenomic and microbiomic approaches. It discusses the role of microbes in ecosystem sustainability and their potential biotechnological applications. The book further discusses the diversity and utility of ectomycorrhizal and entomopathogenic fungi and yeasts that dwell on grapes, it examines the biotechnological applications of specific microbes such as lichens, xylan- and cellulose-saccharifying bacteria and archaea, chitinolytic bacteria, methanogenic archaea and pathogenic yeasts.
Contents:
Part 1. Soil and Agroecosystem
Chapter 1. Cave microbiome for human welfare
Chapter 2. 2. Diversity of nitrogen fixing symbiotic rhizobia with special reference to Indian Thar Desert
Chapter 3. Soil microbiota and sustainable Jhum agroecosystem
Chapter 4. Diversity in Type III secreting systems (T3SS) in Legume-Rhizobial symbiosis
Chapter 5. Microbe based novel biostimulants for sustainable crop production
Chapter 6. Ectomycorrhizal diversity and tree sustainability
Chapter 7. Diversity of AM fungi in relation to sustainable plant production systems
Chapter 8. Microbial diversity on grapes and other fruits: Role and significance in fermentation
Chapter 9. Harnessing entomopathogenic fungi for enhanced farm productivity and profitability
Chapter 10. Bioactive molecules obtained from microbes of the Sundarbans
Chapter 11. Microbiome engineering in rhizosphere: Potential in improving food security
Chapter 12. Dynamics of plant-microbiome and its effect on the plant traits
Part 2. Diversity of Specific microbial Groups
Chapter 13. Phylogenetic diversity of lichen photobionts, its coevolution with mycobionts, and potential bioprospects
Chapter 14. Diversity in xylan-degrading prokaryotes and their bioprospects
Chapter 15. Diversity in cellulose degrading microbes and their cellulases: role in ecosystem sustainability and potential applications
Chapter 16. New paradigm in degradation of lignocellulosic biomass and discovery of novel microbial strains
Chapter 17. Secondary metabolism in Trichoderma- chemical and genomic diversity
Chapter 18. Diversity of chitinase producing bacteria and their possible role in plant pest control
Chapter 19. Diversity in endophytic microbes and their bioactive compounds
Chapter 20. Wild edible mushroom of North West Himalaya
their nutritional, neutraceutical and sociobiological Aspects
Chapter 21. Methanogens for humanwelfare: more boon than bane
Chapter 22. Genetic diversity in pathogenic yeasts.