This book cover all types of microbe based polymers and their application in diverse sectors with special emphasis on agriculture. It collates latest research, methods, opinion, perspectives, and reviews dissecting the microbial origins of polymers, their production, design, and processing at industrial level, as well as improvements for specific industrial applications. Book also discusses recent advances in biopolymer production and their modification for amplifying the value. In addition, understanding of the microbial physiology and optimal conditions for polymer production are also explained.
This compilation of scientific chapters on principles and practices of microbial polymers fosters the knowledge transfer among scientific communities, industries, and microbiologist and serves students, academicians, researchers for a better understanding of the nature of microbial polymers and application procedure for sustainable ecosystem
Chapter
1. The production and applications of microbial derived
polyhydroxy butyrates.
Chapter
2. Fungal exopolysaccharides: types,
production and application.
Chapter
3. Isolation and purification of
microbial exopolysaccharides and their industrial applications.
Chapter
4. A
review on properties and application of xanthan gum.
Chapter
5. Biosynthesis
and characterization of poly-(3)-hydroxyalkanoic acid by Bacillus megaterium
SF4 using different carbohydrates.
Chapter
6. Mushroom mycelia-based
material: an environmental friendly alternative to synthetic packaging.-
Chapter
7. An overview of microbial derived polyhydroxy butyrate (PHB):
production and characterization.
Chapter
8. Insight of Biopolymers and
applications of Polyhydroxyalkanoates.
Chapter
9. Microbial pigments and
their application.
Chapter
10. Extracellular polymeric substances from
agriculturally important microorganisms.
Chapter
11. Significance of
bacterial polyhydroxy alkanoates in rhizosphere.
Chapter
12. Role of
microbial biofilms in agriculture: perspectives on plant and soil health.-
Chapter
13. Biological soil crusts to keep soil alive, rehabilitate degraded
soil, and develop soil habitats.
Chapter
14. Fungal chitosan :the
importance and beneficiation of this biopolymer in industrial and agriculture
process.
Chapter
15. Role of microbial extracellular polymeric substances in
soil fertility.
Chapter
16. Microbes derived exopolysaccharides play role in
salt stress alleviation in plants.
Chapter
17. Microbial exopolysaccharides:
structure and therapeutic properties.
Chapter
18. Microbial biopolymers:
pharmaceutical, medical & biotechnological applications.
Chapter
19.
Mycobacterium Biofilms synthesis, ultra structure and their perspectives in
drug tolerance, environment and medicine.
Chapter
20. A comprehensive review
on different microbial derived pigments and their multipurpose activities.-
Chapter
21. Microbial polysaccharides with potential industrial applications:
diversity, synthesis and their applications.
Chapter
22. Eco friendly
microbial biopolymers: recent development, biodegradation and applications.-
Chapter
23. Microbial biopolymers as an alternative construction binder.-
Chapter
24. Genetic engineering approaches for high end application of
biopolymers:Advances and future prospects.
Chapter
25. Microbial pigments:
secondary metabolites with multifaceted roles.
Chapter
26. Bio-fermentative
production of xanthan gum biopolymer and its application in petroleum
sector.
Chapter
27. A comparative study on biodegradable packaging
materials: current status and future prospects.
Chapter
28. Environmental
implications of microbial bioplastics for a sustainable future.
Dr. Anukool Vaishnav: Anukool Vaishnav is working as an Assistant professor in Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, Mathura. He operated SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) project as a Principal Investigator at Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has 7 years of research experience in Agriculture Microbiology. His research is mainly focuses on microbial mediated plant protection against biotic and abiotic stress, characterization of signaling molecules and secondary metabolites (soluble and VOCs) in plant holobionts. As an active researcher, he has published more than 20 research and review articles along with 13 book chapters for reputed journals and edited books. He has filed 9 Indian patents in association with his research group. He is an editorial member of Current Genomics Journal published by Bentham Science. He has been awarded with Young Scientist Award from reputed societies.
Dr. Devendra Kumar Choudhary: Dr. Choudhary is selected member-National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) and shows his presence at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida. Recently he was associated with PDM and worked as Professor (Ad hoc) for three months. He is active researcher and operated major projects with worth amount 10 million sponsored by DBT, DST and SERB, New Delhi, India, as principal investigator and co-investigator. He has involved and contributed in NAAS policy paper number 36 in the year 2006. He has published more than 80 research/review articles along with several book chapters for reputed journals and edited books (Springer, Elsevier and Taylor Francis/Wiley-Blackwell). He has supervised 08 research scholars for their doctoral programme as supervisor and co-supervisor. In addition, he is recipient of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) visiting and summer research fellowship-2014 and his team received DR. RS Rana Memorial best research award 2013 sponsored by Association of Microbiologists of India. His team filed 3 patents and submitted bacterial strains to public domain wherein incurred two accession numbers from MTCC, IMTECH for submitted bacterial cultures (MTCC, 12057 & 12058) along with one MCC no 2607.
