Microbial Bioprospecting for Sustainable Development

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the use of microorganisms and microbial metabolites as a future sustainable basis of agricultural, environmental and industrial developments.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Microorganisms for sustainable agriculture and environmental applications.- Chapter 2.1. Small at Size, Big at Impact: The Microbial Way of Life.- Chapter 2.2. Bioherbicidal Concept: A Novel Strategy to Control Weeds.- Chapter 2.3. Endophytic microorganisms as Bio-Inoculants for Sustainable Agriculture- Chapter 2.4. Exploitation of fungal pathogens for weed management in sustainable agriculture.- Chapter 2.5. Endophytes: Golden treasure for enzyme inhibitors Isothiocyanate.- Chapter 2.6. Microbial Bioremediation. - Chapter 2.7. Impact assessment of environmental pollutants and role of white rot fungus as bioremediation for sustainable agriculture.- Chapter 2.8. Arsenic Contamination in Water and its Management.- Chapter 2.9. Bioremediation of Industrial Waste Water for the Sustainable Environment.- Chapter 2.10. Myxobacteria: Unearthing the Potential through Research.- Chapter 3. Microorganisms for sustainable industrial important products.- Chapter 3.1. Microbial Exopolysaccharides: Multifunctional Roles in Food Technology.- Chapter 3.2. Microbial Cellulases: Role in Ethanol production.- Chapter 3.3. Antimalarial potential of Actinobacteria.- Chapter 3.4. Application of bacterial polysaccharides in cosmetic industries.- Chapter 3.5. Industrially important soil fungal enzymes and pigments for the sustainable development.- Chapter 3.6. Microbes in metabolite production: Current potential and strategies. - Chapter 3.7. Bioprospecting of yeast cell using metagenomics for efficient biofuel production.- Chapter 4. Microorganisms as future tools.- Chapter 4.1. Microbial spores: Concepts and Industrial applications.- Chapter 4.2. Engineering the microbes: Genetic manipulations and their applications.- Chapter 4.3. Riboswitches as molecular tools for regulating microbial gene expression.- Chapter 4.4. Microbial Metagenomics for Industrial and Environmental Bio-prospecting: The Unknown Envoy.- Chapter 4.5. Bacteriophage based biosensors for the detection of food borne pathogens.- Chapter 4.6.Biosensors: State-of-the-Art Tools for Detection of Food Borne Pathogens.