Microbial Applications Vol.2

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Biomedicine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Role of Bacteria in Nanocompound Formation and Their Application in Medical

      • Rubbel Singla, Anika Guliani, Avnesh Kumari, Sudesh Kumar Yadav

      Pages 3-37

   3. Microbial Source of Melatonin and Its Clinical Aspects

      • Sanjay Kumar, Brendan Patrick Mulligan, Shreesh Ojha, Alex Tinson

      Pages 39-53

   4. Major Source of Marine Actinobacteria and Its Biomedical Application

      • Ram Baskaran, Thenmozhi Subramanian, Wu Zuo, Jiaxin Qian, Gaobing Wu, Ashok Kumar

      Pages 55-82

   5. Antimycobacterial Agents: To Target or Not to Target

      • Andaleeb Sajid, Gunjan Arora, Richa Virmani, Anshika Singhal

      Pages 83-104

3. Agriculture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Microbial Biofilm: Role in Crop Productivity

      • Bhagwan N. Rekadwad, Chandrahasya N. Khobragade

      Pages 107-118

   3. Bacterial Quorum Sensing (QS) in Rhizosphere (Paddy Soil): Understanding Soil Signaling and N-Recycling for Increased Crop Production

      • Bhagwan Rekadwad, Chandrahasya Khobragade

      Pages 119-131

   4. Use of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria as Biocontrol Agents: Induced Systemic Resistance Against Biotic Stress in Plants

      • María Victoria Salomon, Iván Funes Pinter, Patricia Piccoli, Rubén Bottini

      Pages 133-152

   5. Biological Routes for the Synthesis of Platform Chemicals from Biomass Feedstocks

      • Md. Imteyaz Alam, Mohammad Asif Ali, Shelaka Gupta, M. Ali Haider

      Pages 153-166

4. Industry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Green Synthesis of Hydroxamic Acid and Its Potential Industrial Applications

      • Bhatia Ravi Kant, Bhatia Shashi Kant, Bhalla Tek Chand, Bhatt Arvind Kumar

      Pages 169-184

   3. Bioactive Natural Products: An Overview, with Particular Emphasis on Those Possessing Potential to Inhibit Microbial Quorum Sensing

      • Vijay Kothari, Pooja Patel, Chinmayi Joshi

      Pages 185-202

   4. Fungi Imperfecti Laccase: Biotechnological Potential and Perspectives

      • Bhagwan Rekadwad, Chandrahasya Khobragade

      Pages 203-212

   5. Biosurfactants: A Multifunctional Microbial Metabolite

      • Neha Panjiar, Shashwati Ghosh Sachan, Ashish Sachan

      Pages 213-229

   6. Bioproduction of Polyhydroxyalkanoate from Plant Oils

      • Fakhrul Ikhma Bin Mohd Fadzil, Takeharu Tsuge

      Pages 231-260

   7. Microbial Synthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoates: Diversification

      • Qi Wang, Changshui Liu

      Pages 261-278

   8. Microbe-Derived Itaconic Acid: Novel Route to Biopolyamides

      • Mohammad Asif Ali, Tatsuo Kaneko

      Pages 279-289

   9. Basics of Methanogenesis in Anaerobic Digester

      • Vinay Patel, Soumya Pandit, Kuppam Chandrasekhar

      Pages 291-314

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.

• Applied microbiology
• Microbial Enzymes
• Biofilms
• Green Technology
• Plant growth

• University Campus Delhi, CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi, India

  Vipin Chandra Kalia

Dr. Vipin Chandra Kalia is presently working as Chief Scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi. He is a Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Delhi. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Genetics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been elected as: (1) Fellow of the Association of Microbiologists of India (FAMI), (2) Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), and (3) Fellow of National Academy of agricultural Sciences (FNAAS). His main areas of research are microbial biodiversity, genomics,  and evolution, bioenergy, biopolymers, antimicrobials, quorum sensing, and quorum quenching. He has published 101 papers in scientific journals such as (1) Nature Biotechnology, (2) Biotechnology Advances, (3) Trends in Biotechnology, (4) Critical Reviews in Microbiology, (5) Bioresource Technology, (6) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, (7) PLoS ONE, (8) BMC Genomics, (9) Gene, and (10) Annual Review of Microbiology. His works have been cited 3558 times with a h index of 31 and an i10 index of 66. He has edited 3 books: Quorum sensing versus quorum quenching: A battle with no end in sight (2015, Springer India), Microbial Factories Vol 1 and 2 (2015). He is presently the editor in chief of the Indian Journal of Microbiology and Editor of (1) PLoS ONE, (2)Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology (Korea), (3) Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology (USA), (4) International Scholarly Research Notices (Energy), (5) Dataset Papers in Science (Microbiology), and (6) Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine. He is a life member of the following scientific societies: (1) Society of Biological Chemists of India (2) Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, India; (3) Association of Microbiologists of India; (4) Indian Science Congress Association; (5) BioEnergy Society of India, and (6) the Biotech Research Society ofIndia (BRSI). He is also a member of the American Society for Microbiology.

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