Unravelling the Soil Microbiome : Perspectives for Environmental Sustainability /
Rama Kant Dubey... [et al.].
- 1 online resource (118 pages)
- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science Ser. .
- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science Ser. .
1: Introduction -- 2: Belowground Microbial Communities: Key Players for Soil and Environmental Sustainability -- 3: Methods for Exploring Soil Microbial Diversity -- 4: Single-Cell Genomics and Metagenomics for Microbial Diversity Analysis -- 5: Metatranscriptomics and Metaproteomics for Microbial Communities Profiling -- 6: Bioinformatics Tools for Soil Microbiome Analysis -- 7: Conclusion and Future Perspectives -- References -- Index.
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.