Microbes for Humanity and Its Applications

Contents: Preface. 1. Microbial Degradation of Organophosphate Compounds: A Review/Yashika Sood, Divya Bhatia, Harnek Singh Saini and Deepak Kumar Malik. 2. Mycorrhizal Fungi: An Eco-friendly Input for Sustenance of Soil Fertility and Plant Health/Satish Kumar, Twinkle Chaudhary, Diksha, Satyavir S. Sindhu, Deepika Chaudhary and Rakesh Kumar. 3. Fermented Plant Foods: Cereals and Vegetables/Nikhil Mehta, Priyanka Rao and Raman Saini. 4. Bacterial Quorum Sensing: Its Role in Physiological Characterization of Bacteria/Aayushi Sharma, Jasina Arora and Vijay Kumar. 5. Applications of Probiotics in Gynecological Health: A Review/Vijay Kumar and Manpreet Kaur. 6. Application of Synthetic Biology in Bioremediation/Akhlash P. Singh. 7. E.coli as an Indicator of Organic Pollution in Water: A Review/Anjali Malan and Hardeep Rai Sharma. 8. Current Status of Combined Veterinary Vaccines/Vijay, Ojasvita, Swati Dahiya and N.K. Kakker. 9. Zero-Valent-Iron Nanoparticles (ZVI-NPs) Utility in Environmental Remediation and Management/Riya Panchal and Dharmender Kumar. 10. Microbial Endophytes as Biofertilisers: Sustainable and Promising Remedy for Ailing Soils/Kajal Chauhan, Disha Chahal and Sulekha Chahal. 11. Isopteran Termite Gut Microbes: An Overview of Significant Interactions/Nidhi Kakkar, Bhanupriya and Sanjeev Kumar Gupta. 12. Biological Control of Agricultural Pests: A Step Towards Greener Remedies/Lubhan Cherwoo, Ishika Gupta, Geetika Sharma, Nainpriya Babbar, Hema Setia and Ranjana Bhatia. 13. Soil Composition and Microbial Ecosystem/Manoj Kumar, Mohit Kumar, Sudhir Kumar Kataria, Jitender Sharma and Sunita Dalal. 14. Microorganisms as Biocontrol Agents in Vegetable Crops/Siddhi Chugh, Jagdish Parshad, Dinesh Kumar and Sarita Rani. 15. Probiotics in Human Health/Sakshi Khurana, Sangeeta C. Sindhu, Ajeet Kumar, Anil Sindhu and Anju Kumari. 16. Noble Role of Phytochemicals in Nanoparticle Synthesis and as Proven Antimicrobial Agents: A Review/Manjit Kaur, Sunita Khatak, Harinder Singh. 17. DNA Sequencing: Its Generations and Interpretations A Review/Harinder Singh, Sunita Khatak and Manjit Kaur. 18. Abiotic Stress Alleviation by Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) for Environmental Sustainability/Swati Sindhu, Basanti Brar and Monika Jangra. Index. This book updates in details about the microbes and their intervention in different sectors. We are living in a world with gigantic pools of microorganisms. Microorganisms have been employed in various human welfare and industrial applications from several decades. Microbes has been exploited for various applications viz. crop improvement, crop protection from pests, recombinant proteins and vaccine production, production of antibiotics and pharmaceutical compounds, production of beverages and bakery products, textiles and detergent, industrial effluent treatment. Microbes have been utilized in production of bio-fuels and in green synthesis of nanomaterials. Advances in genetic engineering and gene editing tools have revolutionized their application potential. Omics studies have further assisted to understand and explore the unknown complex microbial pathways that lead to augment their application potential. The main idea of book is to bring together the work done by leading researchers in different sector of microbial application within a single book. The overall purpose of the book is to provide deep insights into the present scenario of microbial applications with future challenges.'.…