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Microorganisms have critical roles in the functioning of
environment, structural formation, and plant interactions, both
positive and negative. These roles are important in reestablishing
function and biodiversity in ecosystem restoration. This book will
focus on topics where microbial ecology contributes to management,
restoration and sustainability of the biosphere. Discussing current
microbial ecology and environmental microbiology, it will review
the role of microbial communities in ecosystem services, with
examples from both natural and managed ecosystems. It also
highlights the untold ways in which microbial communities influence
environmental quality and sustainability.
This book integrates research methods and techniques relevant to
understanding forest ecology, with a particular focus on those that
are relevant to practical conservation and sustainable forest
management.
Next Generation Sequencing and Microbial Ecology is a very timely
and succinct compilation of the current developments in nucleic
acid sequencing methods and their applications especially in
helping understand microbial interaction and their form, community
structure and function in various biotic communities. The book
introduces the readers to different methods of sequencing DNA -
from conventional to next generation sequencing, and discussing
invariably the limitation and advantages of each of these methods,
with respect to microbial ecology studies. The book highlights
several gene families which have been favourably taken up in the
recent past for the purpose of dissecting the communities and their
possible roles. In this book, we also discuss some very novel
aspects of microbial ecology, like "the metagenomics approach",
which scientist have been able to work out mainly by culture
independent approaches. We will highlight how this is helping us
understand the structural and functional aspect i.e., "who is out
there" and "what they are doing" in a number of different
environments and the ecological significance of these aspects. We
hope that the book will be useful for students, researchers and
teachers as a reference for choosing an appropriate sequencing
approach, with respect to the gene family and analytical methods
for studying microbes and their role in a community/ecosystem.
Suggestions for improving the book are cordially invited.
The growing need for increased food production globally has led the
farmers and scientists equally to devise means to increase plant
productivity through several practices, including disease
management. A number of plant diseases caused by bacteria have huge
economic impact on global crop productivity. Although chemical
control practices may be effective, they pose a threat to the
environment and to the food chain. With the discovery of
antibiotics in the 1940s, the concept of using bacteriophages was
abandoned. However, its use has re-emerged, and is a rapidly
growing area for controlling bacterial plant pathogens. In this
book, we present the historical and recent developments, concepts,
factors, challenges and concerns of using bacteriophages for plant
disease control. We hope that the book will be a valuable reference
for students, researchers, teachers as well as agriculturists while
choosing environmentally safe and sustainable plant pest management
techniques.
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