Main description:

The present book focuses on cold habitat microbes with the potential source of elite enzymes and secondary metabolites to meet the growing demands of the pharmaceutical, food and biotechnological industries. Microbes living in such extreme cold conditions are reported to produce various biomolecules with potential biotechnological applications.

The book overviews recent research trends to discover such important biomolecules, and also suggests recommending future research directions to discover such elite novel biomolecules. It focuses on cold habitat microbes with the potential source of elite enzymes and secondary metabolites to meet the growing demands of the pharmaceutical, food, and biotechnological industries.

Salient Features:

Covers studies on various biotic communities and abiotic components of the soil of the terrestrial habitats with much focus on cold habitats

Discusses various omics approaches viz. metagenomics, and meta-transcriptomics
Enlists adaptation strategies adopted by cold-adapted microbes

Discusses various biotechnological and industrially important biomolecules produced by cold-adapted microbes will be discussed

Explores role of microbial biofilm in the degradation of microplastics in cold habitats

Contents:

1. Soil Physico-Chemical and Biological Properties in Cold Habitats of the Northwest Himalayas, their constraints and management strategies. 2. Soil as a host to the biotic community. 3. Effect of soil characteristics on soil microbial biomass and diversity. 4. Soil microbiome of Cold Deserts and their biotechnologically useful adaptations for life on Earth and beyond, with a detailed case study on the Atacama Desert microbiome. 5. Potassium, Iron and Phosphorous Solubilizing Bacteria in Trans-Himalayan Soil. 6. Potential and responses of microfungi to the dynamics of cold environments. 7. Rhizobiome of the Indian Himalayan Ecosystem and its role. 8. Soil Microbiome for Enhanced Crop Productivity. 9. Impact of microbial biofilm community shifts in the degradation of microplastics in cold habitats. 10. A review on the prospection of psychrophilic bacteria, their adaptive strategies and valorization for sustainability. 11. Psychrophilic soil microorganisms; a potential source of Secondary metabolites. 12. Brasstacks of omics technologies for decoding soil. 13. Ecological role of psychrophiles and mechanism of adaptation in various cold ecozones. 14. Ecology and Remediation of soil: The steps toward modern soil biotechnology. 15. Machine learning to explore the psychrophilic soil microbiome. 16. Mass Spectrometry as an Emerging Analytical Technique for Agriculture under changing climate.