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SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science: Perspectives For Environmental Sustainability

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SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science: Perspectives For Environmental Sustainability

Dubey, Rama Kant; Tripathi, Vishal; Prabha, Ratna; Chaurasia, Rajan; Singh, Dhananjaya Pratap; Rao, Ch. Srinivasa; El-Keblawy, Ali; Abhilash, Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil

This book explores the significance of soil microbial diversity to understand its utility in soil functions, ecosystem services, environmental sustainability, and achieving the sustainable development goals. With a focus on agriculture and environment, the book highlights the importance of the microbial world by providing state-of-the-art technologies for examining the structural and functional attributes of soil microbial diversity for applications in healthcare, industrial biotechnology, and bioremediation studies. In seven chapters, the book will act as a primer for students, environmental biotechnologists, microbial ecologists, plant scientists, and agricultural microbiologists. 

Chapter 1 introduces readers to the soil microbiome, and chapter 2 discusses the below ground microbial world. Chapter 3 addresses various methods for exploring microbial diversity, chapter 4 discusses the genomics methods, chapter 5 provides the metaproteomics and metatranscriptomics approaches and chapter 6 details the bioinformatics tools for soil microbial community analysis, and chapter 7 concludes the text with future perspectives on further soil microbial uses and applications. 


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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2019-06-04

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783030155155

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15516-2

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 104

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