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An Overview of Survival Strategies of Psychrophiles and Their Applications

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Survival Strategies in Cold-adapted Microorganisms

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Psychrophiles are capable of surviving under extreme cold conditions, subzero temperatures. They have adapted various mechanisms like altered membrane fluidity, antifreeze proteins, cold shock proteins, chaperones, trehalose, exopolysaccharides, synthesis of carotenoid pigments, production of ice nucleating proteins, decreased flagellar motility, etc. Psychrophiles mainly find their application in environmental bioremediation, in preventing food spoilage, as cell factories for production of various enzymes, and also in degradation of oil spills in oceans. They have proved to be a boon for the agriculture due to their plant growth-promoting properties at low temperatures. Development of microbial consortium and genetic engineering may be fruitful in the coming future in plant biotechnology. This chapter describes the cold tolerance mechanisms in psychrophilic microorganisms and the application of such microbes in different industrial sectors and agriculture. We also included the gaps and overcome strategies in the agriculture application of cold-tolerant microorganisms.

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Sharma, S., Chaturvedi, U., Sharma, K., Vaishnav, A., Singh, H.B. (2022). An Overview of Survival Strategies of Psychrophiles and Their Applications. In: Goel, R., Soni, R., Suyal, D.C., Khan, M. (eds) Survival Strategies in Cold-adapted Microorganisms. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2625-8_6

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