Fundamentals of Environmental Microbiology

Contents: 1. The Environmental Dimensions of Antimicrobial Resistance. 2. Bio-mining and Metal Extraction. 3. Microbial Resistance to Heavy Metals. 4. Microbial Metabolites in Nutrition and Healthcare. 5. Resources or Methodology to Study Plant Microbe Interaction. 6. Transgenic Plants and Microbial Interaction. 7. Plant and Microbel Gene Expression and Signal Exchange. 8. Associative, Endophytic and Pathogenic Interactions in Natural Environments. 9. Downstream Processing in Fermentaion. 10. Community Dynamics and Population Interactions Employing DGGE, TGGE, T-RFLP. 11. Antibiotic Fermentation: An Industrial Manufacturing.