The extreme microbiomes are those microorganisms thriving under extreme conditions where no other living being will have any chance to survive. The extreme habitats are those presenting high temperatures (thermophiles), low temperature (psychrophiles), hypersaline environments (halophiles), low and high pH (Acidophiles/alkaliphiles), high pressure (Piezophiles) are distributed worldwide. The extreme habitats have proved to offer a unique reservoir of genetic diversity and biological source of extremophiles. The extremophilic microbial diversity and their biotechnological potential use in agricultural and industrial applications will be a milestone for future needs. Extremophiles and their cell components, therefore, are expected to play an important role in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, paper and textile industries as well as environmental biotechnology.
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Extremophilic Microbes and their Extremozymes for Industry and Allied Sectors
Hiran Kanti Santra and Debdulal Banerjee
Halophillic Rhizobacteria as the Acquaintance of Crop Plants Enduring Soil Salinity
Deepanwita Deka and Dhruva Kumar Jha
Halophilic Microbiome: Biodiversity and Biotechnological Applications
Use of Halo-tolerant?Bacteria to Improve the Bioactive Secondary Metabolites in Medicinally Important Plants under Saline Stress
Yachana Jha and RB Subramanian
Hot Springs Thermophilic Microbiomes: Biodiversity and Biotechnological Applications
Juan-José Escuder-Rodríguez, María-Eugenia DeCastro, Esther Rodríguez-Belmonte, Manuel Becerra and María-Isabel González-Siso
Molecular Biology of Thermophilic and Psychrophilic Archaea
Chaitali Ghosh and Jitendra Singh Rathore
Microbes from Cold Deserts and Their Applications in Mitigation of Cold Stress in Plants
Murat Dikilitas, Sema Karakas, Eray Simsek and Ajar Nath Yadav
Cold-active Microfungi and their Industrial Applications
Sanjay Sahay
Cold Adapted Microorganisms: Survival Mechanisms and Applications
Deep Chandra Suyal, Ravindra Soni, Ajar Nath Yadav and Reeta Goel
Psychrophilic Microbiomes: Unravelling the Molecular Adaptation Strategies using In Silico Approaches
Abhigyan Nath
Psychrophilic Microbiomes: Biodiversity, Molecular Adaptations and Applications
K. Kamala, P. Sivaperumal, S. Manjunath Kamath, P. Kumarand Richard Thilagaraj
Extremophilic Microbes: Blooms the Biological Synthesis of Nanoparticles
Aathira Sreevalsan, Jamseel Moopantakath and Ranjith Kumavath
Biocontrol Potential and Applications of Extremophiles for Sustainable Agriculture
Gajanan Mehetre, Vincent Vineeth Leo, Garima Singh, Prashant Dhawre, Igor Maksimov and Bhim Pratap Singh
Alcohol and Hydrogen Production by Hyperthermophiles
Kesen Ma, Sarah Danielle Kim and Vivian Serena Chu
Microorganisms from Permafrost and their Possible Applications
A.?Brouchkov, V. Melnikov, G.I. Griva, E. Kashuba, V. Kashuba, M. Kabilov, O.?Fursova, V. Bezrukov, Kh. Muradian, V.?Potapov, G.?Pogorelko, N.?Fursova, S.?Ignatov, V. Repin, L. Kalenova, A. Subbotin, Y.B. Trofimova, E.V. Brenner, S. Filippova, V. Rogov, V.Galchenko and A. Mulyukin
Biodiversity and Biotechnological Applications of Extremophilic Microbiomes: Current Research and Future Challenges
Ajar Nath Yadav is an Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) in Department of Biotechnology, Dr. KSG Akal College of Agriculture, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has 5 years of teaching and 11 year of research experience in the field of Extreme Microbiology and Plant-Microbe-Interactions. Dr. Yadav has 277 publications, with h-index of 38, i10-index of 92, and 3859 citations (Google Scholar). Dr. Yadav has received "Outstanding Teacher Award" in 6th Annual Convocation 2018 by Eternal University.
Ali Asghar Rastegari is currently working as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Biological Science, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Falavarjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, I.R. Iran. He has 13 years of experiences in the field of Enzyme Biotechnology, and Nanobiotechnology. To his credit are 39 publications in various supposed international, national journals and publishers. He is editor of 2 books published by Elsevier, 2 by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis and 6 by Springer.
Neelam Yadav is currently working on microbial diversity from diverse sources and their biotechnological applications agriculture and allied sectors. She?obtained her post graduation degree from Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has to her credit 55 research/review/book chapters in different reputed international, national journals and publishers. She is editor of 2 books published by Elsevier, and 8 books by Springer. She has the lifetime membership of Association of Microbiologists in India, Indian Science Congress Council, India.
