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Emerging Metagenomic Strategies for Assessing Xenobiotic Contaminated Sites

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Xenobiotics in the Soil Environment

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Soil-bound xenobiotic compounds resulting from anthropogenic activities are known to be toxic, persistent and recalcitrant. Molecular techniques such as DNA fingerprinting, metagenomics, metaproteomics, metatranscriptomics and proteogenomics offer new insights into phylogenetic and functional diversity of soil microbial assemblages. Metagenomics deals with genetic material directly recovered from environmental samples. Recent advances in molecular techniques have opened up new perspectives in pollution abatement when compared with traditional molecular techniques dependent on isolation of pure cultures. This chapter summarizes basic concepts of metagenomics and various approaches known to facilitate metagenomic screening as well as challenges that hamper the soil xenobiotic metagenomic analysis.

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Kathi, S. (2017). Emerging Metagenomic Strategies for Assessing Xenobiotic Contaminated Sites. In: Hashmi, M., Kumar, V., Varma, A. (eds) Xenobiotics in the Soil Environment. Soil Biology, vol 49. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47744-2_7

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