Microbial Biotechnology: Role In Ecological Sustainability And Research

Microbial biotechnology: Role in Ecological sustainability and Research discusses potential role of microbial biotechnology for the betterment of people's daily lifestyle, including coverage of the various applications of microbes for environmental sustainability.

Microbes are the potential and key natural agent of environmental contaminants removal and recycling. Environmental pollutants such as industrial and pharmaceutical waste have emerged as a global threat, creating widespread antibiotic resistance and giving rise to drug-resistant strains of pathogens. This volume details the environmental problems posed by antibiotics, including the various types of toxic environmental pollutants discharged from both natural and anthropogenic activities and their toxicological effects in environments, humans, animals, and plants. On one hand, there are useful microbes, which may help us to clean our environment by microbial bioremediation and as probiotics, on the other hand pathogenic microorganisms are warranted advent of emergent therapies and disease prevention, and to gradually increase agricultural profitability using microbial biocontrol agents and bio-fertilizers. Similarly, various potential microbes have critical roles in regulating the environment via their involvement production and intake/consumption of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other air pollutants from the environment.

The volume provides detailed knowledge on the various natural and anthropogenic sources of various toxic environmental pollutants such as recalcitrant organic pollutants, pesticides, toxic metals, endocrine disrupting chemicals/compounds from wastewater (tannery, pulp and paper, distillery, textile industry etc.) as dyes, organo-metallic pollutants, their toxicological effects in environments, humans, animals and plants as well as their bioremediation approaches for the management and cleanup of polluted environments. This volume is aimed at providing complete knowledge on the variety of microbial application including removal and management of environmental pollutants from different sources, their toxicological effects on all life forms and together unfolding the complete state of the art of the microbial technologies and compilation of all the major advances involving different novel microbial strains. Primary focus is on the advanced sustainable contaminants removal technologies, principally on biological treatment methods (aerobic and anaerobic), green technologies, phytoremediation, hybrid treatment, and cavitation-based treatment methods. The volume also highlights the recent advanced and innovative methods for the useful degradation and bioremediation of organic pollutants, heavy metals, dyes, etc. in the wastewater. In addition, this volume covers a wide range of topics including environmental microbiology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, green chemistry, environmental science, and environmental engineering.

Microbial biotechnology: Role in Ecological Sustainability and Research is useful for wide range of audience such as students (undergraduate, post graduate & research scholars), scientists and academicians engaged in microbiology, biotechnology, environmental sciences, earth sciences, and ecology with the fundamental and advanced knowledge about the environmental problems, challenges and bioremediation approaches used for the remediation of contaminated sites.