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Volatiles and Metabolites of Microbes

  • 1st Edition - June 22, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Joginder Singh Panwar, Jastin Samuel, Ajay Kumar
  • Language: English

Volatiles and Metabolites of Microbes compiles the latest research and advancement in the field of volatiles, metabolites synthesized from the microbial strains such as actinomyc… Read more

Description

Volatiles and Metabolites of Microbes compiles the latest research and advancement in the field of volatiles, metabolites synthesized from the microbial strains such as actinomycetes, bacteria, cyanobacteria, and fungal species and their potential applications in the field of healthcare issue and sustainable agriculture.

There is an urgent need to explore new and advanced biological methods for health industries and sustainable agriculture and to protect the environment from environmental pollution or contaminates, global warming, and also control the health of human beings from the side effects of various pharmaceuticals products.

Focusing all these factors, Volatiles and Metabolites of Microbes explores new aspects of microorganism in terms of volatiles, enzymes, bioactive compounds synthesized from the microbes and their potential applications in the field of sustainable agriculture and health-related issues

Key features

  • Provides a broad aspect about volatiles, bioactive compounds, and secondary metabolites of microbes compiled in one cover
  • Gives the latest research and advancement in the field of volatiles, secondary metabolites, and bioactive compounds synthesized from the different microbial strains
  • Responds to new developments in the detection of the complex compound structures of volatiles
  • Offers insight to a very broad audience in Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology, Agronomy, and Pathology

Readership

Researchers in microbial biotechnology in both academy and corporate settings, graduate students on related subjects. Microbiologists, plant pathologists, agronomists, molecular biologists, pharmacologist and related researchers

Table of contents

1. Microbial secondary metabolites: recent developments and technological challenges

2. Bacterial VOCs and gene-induced host-defense pathways

3. Microbial volatiles: small molecules with an important role in intra- and interbacterial genus interactions-quorum sensing

4. Detection and purification of microbial volatile organic compounds

5. Microbial volatiles as new frontiers in antibiotic research

6. Fungal volatile compounds: a source of novel in plant protection agents

7. Endophytic microbes: an array of organic volatiles and secondary metabolites

8. Role and behavior of microbial volatile organic compounds in mitigating stress

9. Significance of microbial volatiles in ecological health: impact on wetland systems

10. Endophytic bacteria as source of novel bioactive compounds

11. Bacterial metabolites: an unexplored quarry

12. Microbial metabolites in nutrition and healthcare

13. Fungal strains as source of bioactive compounds and their potential application

14. Cyanobacteria-derived small molecules: a new class of drugs

15. Endophytic fungi as a potential source of cytotoxic drugs: a fungal solution to cancer

16. Volatile organic compounds for enhancement of plant growth through plant growth promoting rhizobacteria

17. Importance of microbial secondary metabolites in health care applications

18. Role of fungal metabolites as biopesticides: an emerging trend in sustainable agriculture

19. Endophytes producing active constituents in Centella asiatica with a special emphasis on asiaticoside and madecassoside: a review update

20. Endophytes producing bioactive compounds from Piper spp.: a review on utilization, bottlenecks, and future perspectives

21. Recent advances and future prospects of indole alkaloids producing endophytes from Catharanthus roseus

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 23, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

JP

Joginder Singh Panwar

Joginder Singh Panwar is a Professor in the Department of Botany at Nagaland University, Lumami, India. His previous appointments include a professorship at the School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, and a Young Scientist position at the Microbial Biotechnology and Biofertilizer Laboratory at Jai Narain Vyas University, funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is an active member of several scientific societies, including the Association of Microbiologists of India and the European Federation of Biotechnology. Dr. Singh has an extensive publication record across books and journals, and he also regularly serves as a reviewer for numerous prestigious international journals He has published extensively with Elsevier and Springer both in journals and books. He serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals. He actively participates and presents at national and international scientific conferences and events.

Affiliations and expertise
Nagaland University

JS

Jastin Samuel

Dr. Jastin Samuel (PhD) is working as Assistant Professor leading waste valorization research lab at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He has more than a decade experience in R&D. He has been an active part of DST, EU-DBT, and CSIR-funded projects. He was awarded the prestigious CSIR-SRF fellowship in Engineering (ENG42) in 2013. Along with his team, he has developed lab-scale mine wastewater treatment system for opencast mines at Orissa, India; established ETP tertiary treatment facility for two industries (sugar industry and distillery industry) with reuse and business proposition in Andhra Pradesh, India, that is, approved by CPCB; established a water treatment facility at Pondicherry in PPP mode with the State Government. He is presently working on pathway assessment and mitigation of Micro and Nano-plastics. He has been a member of review boards of various journals and conferences in India and abroad.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology, and leads the Waste Valorization Research Lab, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India

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Ajay Kumar

Ajay Kumar is a Professor (Research Track), Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Core Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology & Architecture, Manipal University Jaipur.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor (Research Track), Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Core Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology & Architecture, Manipal University Jaipur, India

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