1st Edition

Frontiers in Soil and Environmental Microbiology

Edited By Suraja Kumar Nayak, Bibhuti Bhusan Mishra Copyright 2020
    365 Pages 50 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    365 Pages 50 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Soil harbours a wide range of microorganisms with biotic potentials which can be explored for social benefits. The book Frontiers in Soil and Environmental Microbiology comprises an overview of the complex inter-relationship between beneficial soil microbes and crop plants, and highlights the potential for utilisation to enhance crop productivity, bioremediation and soil health. The book focusses on important areas of research such as biocide production, pesticide degradation and detoxification, microbial decay processes, remediation of soils contaminated with toxic metals, industrial wastes, and hydrocarbon pollutants.

    Features

    • Presents the state of the art of microbial research in environmental and soil microbiology
    • Discusses an integrated and systematic compilation of microbes in the soil environment and its role in agriculture and plant growth and productivity
    • Elucidates microbial application in environmental remediation
    • Explores advanced genomics topics for uncultivable microbes of soil

    1 Role of additives in improving efficiency of bioformulation for plant growth and development 
    Brahmaprakash G.P., Pramod Kumar Sahu, Lavanya G, Amrita Gupta, Sneha S Nair and Vijaykumar Gangaraddi 2 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonization of Spartidium saharae and their impact on soil microbiological properties
    Mahdhi  Mosbah, Mahmoudi Neji and Mars Mohamed  
    3 Beneficial Role of Aspergillus sp. in agricultural soil and environment
    Shubhransu Nayak, Soma Samanta and Arup Kumar Mukherjee 
    4 Verrucomicrobia in soil: An agricultural prospective
    Byomkesh Dash, Swapnarani Nayak, Avishek Pahari and Suraja Kumar Nayak 
    5 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria: Prospects and Application
    Avishek Pahari, Alisha Pradhan, Suraja Kumar Nayak and Bibhuti Bhusan Mishra 
    6 Potential Use of Soil Enzymes as Soil Quality Indicators in Agriculture
    Adewole Tomiwa Adetunji, Bongani Ncube, Reckson Mulidzi, Francis Bayo Lewu 
    7 Microorganisms for the imperishable growth of agriculture
    Awanish Kumar 
    8 Mycorrhizae and its Scope in Agriculture
    Pratima Ray 
    9 Industrial applications of novel compounds from Bacillus sp.
    Estibaliz Sansinenea 
    10 Expanding role of microbial products in pharmaceutical development: a concise review
    Dibyajyoti Samantaray, Swagat Kumar Das, Hrudayanath Thatoi 
    11 Thermophilic bacteria- environmental and industrial applications
    Balsam T. Mohammad and Punyasloke Bhadury 
    12 Metagenomics: The Approach and Techniques in Finding New Bioactive Compounds
    Bighneswar Baliyarsingh 
    13 Synthesis of biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoates from soil bacteria
    Catherine A. Kelly, Tim W. Overton and Mike J. Jenkins 
    14 Fish  processing  waste  as  a  beneficial  substrate  for  microbial  enzyme  production:  An  overview
    Supriya  Dash, Soumyashree  Barik and Anupama  Baral 
    15 Soil yeasts and its application in biorefineries - second-generation ethanol
    Disney Ribeiro Dias, Angélica Cristina de Souza, Luara Aparecida Simões, and Rosane Freitas Schwan 
    16 Renewable Hydrocarbon from Biomass: Thermo-Chemical, Chemical and Biochemical Perspectives
    Tripti Sharma, Diptarka Dasgupta, Preeti Sagar, Arijit Jana, Neeraj Atray,
    Siddharth S Ray, Saugata Hazra and Debashish Ghosh 
    17 Prospect of microbes in the future fuelling
    Arpan Das, Priyanka Ghosh, Uma Ghosh and Keshab Chandra Mondal 
    18 Lignolytic enzymes from fungus: A consolidated bioprocessing approach for bioethanol production
    Sonali Mohapatra, Suruchee Samparnna Mishra, Manish Paul and Hrudayanath Thatoi 
    19 Microbial biofuels: Renewable source of energy
    Ekta Narwal, Jairam Choudhary, Surender Singh, Lata Nain, Sandeep Kumar, Mohan Lal Dotaniya, Azad Singh Panwar, R.P. Mishra, Prakash Chand Ghasal, Lalit Krishan Meena, Amit Kumar, and Sunil Kumar 
    20 Sustainable Bioenergy Options in India: Potential for Microalgal Biofuels
    Debesh Chandra Bhattacharya 
    21 Production of biofuels by anaerobic bacteria
    Disney Ribeiro Dias, Maysa Lima Parente, Roberta Hilsdorf Piccoli and Rosane Freitas Schwan 
    22 Microbial cell factories as a source of bioenergy and biopolymers
    Prasun Kumar 
    23 Production and future scenarios of advanced biofuels from microbes
    Swagatika Rout 
    24 Soil yeasts and their application in biorefineries - Prospects for biodiesel production
    Disney Ribeiro Dias, Luara Aparecida Simões, Angélica Cristina de Souza and Rosane Freitas Schwan 
    25 Production of Biodegradable Polymers (PHAs) by Soil Microbes Utilizing Waste Materials as Carbon Source
    Swati Mohapatra, Niteesh Pandey, Saikat Dey, Diptarka Dasgupta, Parsenjit Mondal, Debashish Ghosh and Saugata Hazra 
    26 Microbial metagenomics: Current advances in investigating microbial ecology and population dynamics
    Shreya Ghosh and Alok Prasad Das 
    27 Effect of Soil Pollution on Soil Microbial Diversity
    Mohan Lal Dotaniya, K Aparna, Jairam Choudhary, Chetan Kumar Dotaniya, Praveen Solanki, Ekta Narwal, Kuldeep Kumar, RK Doutaniya, Roshan Lal, Babu L Meena, Manju Lata, Mahendra Singh and Udal Singh 
    28 Polyhydroxyalkanoates: The Green Polymer
    Swati Mohapatra, Sudipto Maity, Swayamsidha Pati, Ankita Dash and Deviprasad Samantaray 
    29 Impact of Nano Particles on Soil Microbial Ecology
    Tapan Adhikari and Samaresh Kundu 
    30 Chitinase producing soil bacteria: Prospects and Applications
    Suraja Kumar Nayak, Byomkesh Dash, Swapnarani Nayak, Swaraj Mohanty and Bibhuti Bhusan Mishra 
    31 Recent Advances in Bioremediation for Cleanup Inorganic Pollutants Contaminated Soils
    Praveen Solanki, Mohan Lal Dotaniya, Neha Khanna, Shiv Singh Meena, Amit Kumar Rabha, Sampda Rawat, Chetan Kumar Dotaniya and Rajeev umar Srivastava 
    32 Yeast: An agent for biological treatment of agroindustrial residues
    Josiane Ferreira Pires and Cristina Ferreira Silva 
    33 Microalgae: a potential anti-cancerous and anti-inflammatory agent
    S. M. Samantaray, Pritikrishna Majhi and Jayalaxmi Dash 
    34 Rod shaped maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) nanomaterials for adsorptive removal of Cr6+ and Fˉions from aqueous stream
    Jyoti Prakash Dhal and Garudadhwaj Hota

    Biography

    Dr Suraja Kumar Nayak obtained Ph.D. from Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology in 2013 and is presently working as Lecturer, Department of Biotechnology, College of Engineering and Technology, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Dr. Nayak has 07 years of teaching and research experience in field of Microbiology and Biotechnology. His areas of teaching and research include general and environmental microbiology, soil microbiology, industrial and food biotechnology, microbial biotechnology. Dr. Nayak has published 14 scientific papers including book chapters in various journals and national and international books. Currently 2 more edited books are in press from Wiley and NIPA publishers. He has also submitted 05 accession no. to NCBI, USA and have presented papers in various national and international seminars. Three numbers of M.Tech and more than 10 B.Tech students have successfully completed their dissertation under his guidance.
    Dr Bibhuti Bhusan Mishra is presently working as the ICAR-Emeritus Professor, P.G. Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Science & Humanities, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India after his superannuation from the University in May, 2018. He obtained M. Phil. and Ph.D. Degree in 1983 and 1987 respectively from Berhampur University, Odisha. He has more than 37 years of teaching and research experience. A total of 11 students have been awarded doctoral degree under his supervision from various Universities across India and currently four more are actively working in the field of environmental and soil microbiology. In addition, he has guided more than 25 P.G. students. He has 59 research publications and more than 20 book chapters & research manuscript in various journals of national and international repute. He is credited with 25 accession numbers submitted to NCBI, USA. Also he has contributed research article as book chapter to the encyclopedia ‘Environmental Engineering’ published by Gulf Publishing, USA and book chapters in many more edited books pertaining to soil and environmental microbiology. He has edited 9 books in microbiology and biotechnology published by national and international publishers and 1 book on Botany practical. Currently 2 more edited books are in press from Wiley and NIPA publishers. Moreover he has also successfully completed 1 UGC Major project from Govt. Of India and was the Chief Nodal Officer of project ‘Biofertilizer Production Unit’ under RKVY (Rastriya Krishi Vikash Yojana), Govt. of Odisha amounting to 150 Lakh INR. He is awarded as ‘Best teacher award’ from the University in 2012 and from the college in 2015. For significant contributions in microbiology, he was conferred with Prof. Harihar Pattnaik memorial award by the Orissa Botanical Society in 2016. In addition he got best teacher award from Orissa Botanical Society in 2018.