Short description:

This book provides insights into the complex behaviour of microbial communities and identifies enzymes/metabolites and their degradation pathways via OMICS route. It describes the application of microbes/derivatives for bioremediation of toxic compounds. It highlights existing technologies and industrial practices, and real-life case studies.

Long description:

Bioremediation using microbes is a sustainable technology for biodegradation of target compounds, and an omics approach gives more clarity on these microbial communities. This book provides insights into the complex behavior of microbial communities and identifies enzymes/metabolites and their degradation pathways. It describes the application of microbes and their derivatives for the bioremediation of potentially toxic and novel compounds. It highlights the existing technologies along with industrial practices and real-life case studies.

Features:

• Includes recent research and development in the areas of omics and microbial bioremediation.








• Covers the broad environmental pollution control approaches such as metagenomics, metabolomics, fluxomics, bioremediation, and biodegradation of industrial wastes.








• Reviews metagenomics and waste management, and recycling for environmental cleanup.








• Describes the metagenomic methodologies and best practices, from sample collection to data analysis for taxonomies.








• Explores various microbial degradation pathways and detoxification mechanisms for organic and inorganic contaminants of wastewater with their gene expression.

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in environmental engineering, soil remediation, hazardous waste management, environmental modeling, and wastewater treatment.

Table of Contents:

1. Omics to Field Bioremediation: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

2. Role of Genomics, Metagenomics, and Other Meta-Omics Approaches for Expunging the Environmental Contaminants by Bioremediation

3. Functional Metagenomics: A Methodological Approach to View the Microbial World: A Review

4. Analysis of Emerging Microbial Contaminants through Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)

5. Quorum Sensing: A Potential Mechanism Toward Microbial Activity and Biofilm Formation

6. Integrated Omics Approaches to Understand and Improve Wastewater Remediation

7. Omics Insights into Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation

8. Genome Editing Tools: Increasing Efficiency of Microbes for Remediating Contaminated Environment

9. Recent Advancements in Microbial Degradation of Xenobiotics by Using Proteomics Approaches

10. Importance of Genetically Engineered Microbes (GEMs) In Bioremediation of Environmental Pollutants: Recent Advances and Challenges

11. Role of Indigenous Microbial Community in Bioremediation: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Future Outlook

12. Functional Metagenomics in Environmental Bioremediation: Recent Advances, Challenges and Future Outlook

13. The Use of Microalgae and Cyanobacteria for Wastewater Treatment and the Sustainable Production of Biomass

14. Bioprospecting of Microbial Diversity for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

15. A Consortium of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria Used for Lead, Copper, and Cadmium Bioremediation

16. Omics Reflection on the Bacterial Escape from the Toxic Trap of Metal(loid)s: Cracking the Code of Contaminants Stress, Resistance Repertoire, and Remediation

17. Omics Approaches for Microalgal Remediation of Wastewater: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Future Outlook

18. Disturbance and Stress in Coastal Ecosystems: Quantifying Responses at Multiple Levels of Biological Organization

19. Impact of Cadmium Toxicity on Environment and Its Remedy

20. Metal(loid)-Microbe Interactions: Trading on Tolerance and Transformation for Environmental Remediation

21. Insights into Pathways of Biodegradation of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals by Microbes

22. New Insights into Horizontal Gene Transfer among Bacterial Pathogens to Acquire Antibiotic Resistance and Culture-Independent Techniques to Study ARG Dissemination

23. Genetically Engineered Microorganisms: A Promising Approach for Bioremediation

24. Microbial Biofilm in Remediation of Environmental Contaminants from Wastewater: Mechanisms, Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

25. Artificial Intelligence in Waste Management/Wastewater Treatment