Table of Contents

Contributors xvii

Preface xxiii

About the Editors xxv

Part I: Microorganism: An Introduction

1 Microbes and Environment: Recent Advancement in Environmental Biotechnology 3
Pankaj Chowdhary, Sujata Mani, Parul Shukla, and Abhay Raj

2 Environmental and Industrial Applications of Biosurfactants 29
Sandhya Mishra, Shaohua Chen, and Ram Naresh Bharagava

3 Synbiotic Effects of Human Milk on Neonatal Health: Probiotic Early Microflora and Prebiotic Oligosaccharides in Symphony 43
Swati Shukla, Ramesh C. Dubey, and Jyoti Choudhary

4 Metabolic Engineering of Microbes for the Production of Plant-Based Compounds 59
Subir K. Bose, Swati Upadhyay, and Yashdeep Srivastava

5 Quorum Sensing and Environmental Sustainability 75
Arnab Banerjee, Manoj Kumar Jhariya, Abhishek Raj, and Nahid Khan

6 Endophytic Microbes: Potential Source of Antibiotic Production 89
Jyoti Choudhary, Sarad Kumar Mishra, Zainab Rao, and Swati Shukla

7 The Role and Importance of Microorganisms in Environmental Sustainability 107
Barbara Sawicka, Piotr Pszczółkowski, Piotr Barbaś, Dominika Skiba, and Bernadetta Bienia

Part II: Environmental Management: Bioremediation through Nexus Approach

8 Application of Green Remediation Technology in Field of Dye Effluent Management 137
Suhas Kadam, Rahul Khandare, and Sanjay Govindwar

9 Exploitation of Soil Amendments to Remediate Heavy Metal Toxicity for Safe Cultivation of Crops 175
Anandkumar Naorem, Abhishek Patel, and Shiva Kumar Udayana

10 Microbial Proteomics: Understanding Metabolic Pathways in Microorganisms for Bioremediation of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Pollutants 189
Bhargab Kalita

11 Bioremediation of Problematic Soil for Sustainability 201
Abhishek Raj, Manoj Kumar Jhariya, Nahid Khan, and Arnab Banerjee

12 Recent Advances in Biosensors for Rapid Identification of Antibiotics in Dairy Products 225
Shraddha Chauhan, Vikas Sharma, Digvijay Dahiya, and Preeti Chaturvedi Bharagava

13 Application of Microbes in Dye Decolorization 237
Kuruvalli Gouthami, Lavanya Lakshminarayana, Vadamalai Veeraraghavan, Muhammad Bilal, Ram N. Bharagava, Luiz F. R. Ferreira, Abbas Rahdar, Paul O. Bankole, Juliana H-P Américo-Pinheiro, and Sikandar I. Mulla

14 Removal Potential of Microplastics in Organic Solid Wastes via Biological Treatment Approaches 255
Sartaj A. Bhat, Guangyu Cui, Naik Yaseera, Xuyang Lei, Fuad Ameen, and Fusheng li

15 Role of Microbes in Wastewater Treatment and Energy Generation Potential: A Sustainable Approach 265
Ashish Kumar, Tania Chalotra, Atin K. Pathak, and Neelu Raina

16 Actinobacteria from Soils and their Applications in Environmental Bioremediation 313
Nurul H. Adenan and Adeline S-Y Ting

Part III: Current Trends and Future Possibilities

17 Current Opinion and Trends for Use of Biochar in Agriculture Sustainability 337
Anuradha Singh and Preeti Chaturvedi Bharagava

18 Environmentally Sustainable Elimination of Microbes Using Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes: From Water Treatment to Medical Applications 355
Maximilian Koch, Stefan Rosiwal, and Andreas Burkovski

19 Enzymatic Intervention as an Ecofriendly Approach in Industries: An Update 365
Supriya Gupta, Shruti Dwivedi, Kanchan Yadav, Aiman Tanveer, Sangeeta Yadav, and Dinesh Yadav

20 The Potential of Sulfate-Reducing Microorganisms for the Bioconversion of Dissolved Sulfates to Sulfides Precipitating Metals of a Mine Liquid Effluent 389
Manuel J. Leal-Gutiérrez, Marisela Bernal-González, Ángel E. Chávez-Castellanos, Julio A. Solís-Fuentes, Enrique R. Bazúa-Rueda, and María-del-Carmen Durán-Domínguez-de-Bazúa

21 The Human Microbiome: An Imminent Therapy for Mankind – A Review 399
Immanuel Suresh, Iswareya Lakshimi, and Abinaya Lakshmi

22 Insight into Soil Organic Pollutants: Microbial Bioremediation as a Sustainable Approach Toward Restoration of Agriculture Soil 421
Amarnath Mishra, Shrutika Singla, Sourabh Kumar Singh, and Akanksha Behl

23 Agro-Wastes for Cost Effective Production of Industrially Important Microbial Enzymes: An Overview 435
Shruti Dwivedi, Aiman Tanveer, Sangeeta Yadav, Gautam Anand, and Dinesh Yadav

Index 461

About the Author

Pankaj Chowdhary is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory in the Environmental Toxicology Group at the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research in Lucknow, India.

Sujata Mani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Gramin Science College in Vishnupuri, Nanded, India.

Preeti Chaturvedi is Senior Scientist in the Environmental Toxicology Group at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research in Lucknow, India.