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Author:   Richa Salwan, PhD (College of Horticulture and Forestry (Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry), Neri, Hamirpur (HP), India) ,  Vivek Sharma (University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali (PB.), India)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   1.060kg
ISBN:  

9780128183229

ISBN 10:   0128183225
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   05 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface & Intro & Acknowledgements Richa Salwan Physiological aspects 1. Overview of extremophiles Richa Salwan and Vivek Sharma 2. Physiology of Extremophiles Richa Salwan and Vivek Sharma 3. Mechanism of resistance focusing on copper, mercury and arsenic in extremophilic organisms, how acidophiles and thermophiles cope with these metals Javiera Alejrandra Norambuena 4. Halotolerant microbes and their applications in sustainable agriculture Suprasanna Penna, Jayant Kulkarni, Sandeep Sharma and Ashish Kumar Srivastava 5. Halophilic microorganisms: interesting group of extremophiles with important applications in biotechnology and environment Lobna Daoud and Mamdouh Ben Ali 6. Overview of extremophiles and their food and medical applications Jane Ann Irwin 7. Applications of extremophiles in Astrobiology Rebecca S. Thombre, Parag A. Vaishampayan and Felipe Gomez 8. High-pressureAdaptation ofExtremophiles and Biotechnological Applications Philippe Oger, Judith Peters and Marta Salvador-Castell 9. Fructanogenic Halophiles: A new Perspective on Extremophiles Ebru Toksoy Oner, Gülbahar Abaramak and Onur Kirtel 10. Applications of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria Kavita Rana, Neerja Rana and Birbal Singh 11. Physiological and genomic perspective of extremophiles in high salt concentrations Preeti Mehta, Ashish Verma and Sachin Kumar Biotechnological aspects 12. Genome editing in extremophiles using CRISPR/Cas9 technology Vivek Sharma and Richa Salwan 13. Lipases/esterases from extremophiles: main features and potential biotechnological applications Luigi Mandrich and Valentina De Luca 14. Thermostable ThermoanaerobacterAlcohol Dehydrogenases And Their Use In Organic Synthesis Sean Michael Scully and Johann Orlygsson Sr. 15. Biotechnological platforms of the moderate thermophiles, Geobacillus species: notable properties and genetic tools Hirokazu Suzuki and Keisuke Wada 16. Thermophiles and Thermophilic Hydrolases Shilpi Ghosh and Khusboo Lepcha 17. Effects of single nucleotide mutations in the genomes of multi-drug resistant 19biofilm producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Babu Ramanathan, Sanjay Gunabalan and Chew Jactty 18. Understanding the structural basis of adaptation in enzymes from psychrophiles Mahejibin Khan 19. Molecular and functional characterization of major compatible solute in Deep Sea halophilic actinobacteria of active volcanic Barren Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India Balakrishnan Meena, Lawrance Anburajan and Ramalingam Kirubagaran 20. Antarctic microorganisms as a source of biotechnological products Fernanda Abreu and Tarcisio Correa 21. The Secretomes of Extremophiles Mazen Saleh and Eyad Kinkar 22. Carbonic anhydrase from extremophiles and their potential use in biotechnological applications Clemente Capasso and Claudiu Supuran 23. Understanding the Protein Sequence and Structural Adaptation in Extremophilic Organisms through Machine Learning Techniques Abhigyan Nath 24. Exploration of extremophiles genomes through metagenomics for hidden Biotechnological and future potential Pijush Basak, Arpita Biswas and Maitree Bhattacharyya 25. The Ecophysiology, Genetics, Adaptive Significance, and Biotechnology of Nickel Hyperaccumulation in Plants Anthony Logan Ferrero, Peter R. Walsh and Nishanta Rajakaruna

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Dr. Salwan is currently an Assistant Professor (Microbiology) at the College of Horticulture and Forestry (Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry), Neri, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Salwan’s research interests and contributions are on the diversity of psychrotrophic bacteria from the Western Himalayas and their utilization for industrial applications. She has also worked on the exploration of extremophiles for industrially relevant enzymes and plant beneficial microbes for agricultural benefits. She has published two books and numerous research papers in several international journals. Dr. Salwan serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and is also a recognized reviewer for several journals including MDPI Genes, MDPI Diversity, MDPI Foods, BMC Microbiology, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, and Microbial Ecology. Dr. Vivek Sharma is currently an Assistant Professor at the University Centre for Research and Development at Chandigarh University, Mohali (PB). He has more than 12 years of research experience exploring molecular attributes of Trichoderma. His research also involves examining the molecular aspects of microbes beneficial to plants such as Streptomyces, and Bacillus. He has published several research papers in international journals, serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE, the review editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, an Associate Editor of Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, and is a member of the editorial board of Current Proteomics. He is also a recognized reviewer for journals such as the Journal of Advanced Research, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Environmental Research, the Journal of Proteomics, BMC Genomics, BMC Plant Biology, AMB Express, Molecular Biotechnology, MDPI Pathogens, Folia Microbiology, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology and Archives of Microbiology.

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