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Microbial Omics: Role in Ecological Studies and Environmental Control Measures

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Environmental Biotechnology Vol. 2

Part of the book series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World ((ECSW,volume 45))

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Background/issues: Core microbial communities persisting in different environments play important roles in major biotechnological processes such as wastewater treatment, pollutant degradation, antibiotic resistance, biogeochemical cycles and most of the other environmental control mechanisms. Microbial integrated omics that involves metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics are now providing better insight into the relationships between this core microbial community dynamics and their functions. Thus, integrated-omics is acquiring huge attention within the scientific community for enhanced understanding of the novel microbial genetic structure and functionality with the point of view for environmental monitoring and control.

Major advances: Here, we review the current advancements in the -omics technologies and its impact on the microbial ecology studies that aim for environmental control. Specifically, the review focuses on the research highlights involving the characterization of microbial communities and metabolic pathways for hydrocarbon degradation and wastewater treatment. Overall, the insights will provide us the knowledge regarding the scope, limitations and optimization strategies to be developed for better applications of microbial -omics approach in betterment of environmental processes and in bioengineering applications.

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    Neelam M. Nathani & Bharti P. Dave

  2. Department of Plant Biotechnology, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh, Gujarat, India

    Riddhi H. Rajyaguru

  3. Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, Telangana, India

    P. Ninian Prem Prashanth

  4. Department of Marine Science, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

    Chandrashekar Mootapally

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Nathani, N.M., Rajyaguru, R.H., Prashanth, P.N.P., Mootapally, C., Dave, B.P. (2020). Microbial Omics: Role in Ecological Studies and Environmental Control Measures. In: Gothandam, K., Ranjan, S., Dasgupta, N., Lichtfouse, E. (eds) Environmental Biotechnology Vol. 2. Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World, vol 45. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38196-7_8

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