Microbial Biotechnology
Contents: Preface. 1. Bioinformatics tool for PCR primer designing in microbial genomics/Dinesh Kumar and Dilip K. Arora. 2. Detection of the non-ribosomally assembled toxic cyanopeptides/Maria Estela Silva-Stenico, Augusto Etchegaray Omar Teschke, and Marli Fatima Fiore. 3. Fungal biotransformations: a powerful tool in drug metabolism studies/Monica Tallarico Pupo, Keyller Bastos Borges, Warley de Souza Borges and Pierina Sueli Bonato. 4. Methylotrophy in bacteria - concept and significance/G. Selvakumar, Sehar Nazim and S. Kundu. 5. Recent advances in plant growth promotion mechanisms of agriculturally important bacteria/R. Muthukumarasamy, V.S. Saravanan, V. Ramesh Kumar, S. Natarajan and G. Revathi. 6. Microbial biocontrol agents for insects and phytopathogens/S. Indira Devi and Ram Lal. 7. Natural products from endophytic fungi/Margareth B.C. Gallo, Denise O. Guimaraes. Luciano da S. Momesso and Monica T. Pupo. 8. Marine microbial diversity and its application in biotechnology/Imelda-Joseph. 9. The importance of extracellular metal immobilization for Rhizobium persistence in heavy metal contaminated soils/Sofia Isabel Almeida Pereira and Etelvina Maria de Almeida Paula Figueira. 10. Bioremediation: a natural approach for heavy metal contaminated sites/Anju Rani, Alok Kumar and Reeta Goel. 11. Role of bacterial plasmid in Xenobiotic degradation/Abdullah Altalhi, Bahig El Deeb and Youssuf Gherbawy. 12. Mechanisms involved in tolerance of mycorrhizal plants to heavy metals/K.S. Subramanian, M. Thangaraju and R.A. Jegan. 13. Impacts of ultraviolet-b radiation on microbes and human health: the biotechnological perspectives/R.P. Sinha, M.B. Tyagi and Ashok Kumar. 14. Antimicrobial resistance in gram positive and gram negative bacteria: progress and challenges/Debajit Thakur, Minali Baishya, Barnali Sarma, Tarun Ch. Bora and Ratul Saikia. 15. Molecular systematics of Frankia - Actinorhizal symbiosis/Balwinder Bajwa, Manprit Gill, Saubashya Sur, Asim Bothra and Arnab Sen. Index.
"Microbial Biotechnology is wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary activities which include recombinant DNA techniques, cloning and the application of microbes to the production of goods from bread to antibiotics. This book is an attempt to highlight the significant aspects of the vast subject area of microbial biotechnology likes bioinformatics tool for PCR primer designing, fungal biotransformations, bioremediation by microbes, natural products from fungi, microbial diversity etc to provide a complete overview of the subject. It also addresses the role of bacterial plasmid in xenobiotic degradation, antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, ultraviolet-B radiation effect on microbes and human health. The book will be valuable to the researchers, biologist, microbiologist, scientists, post graduate students of microbiology, agriculture, biotechnology and medical science also."
