Table Of ContentMicroorganisms for Sustainability 8
Series Editor: Naveen Kumar Arora
Dilfuza Egamberdieva
Nils-Kåre Birkeland
Hovik Panosyan
Wen-Jun Li Editors
Extremophiles
in Eurasian
Ecosystems:
Ecology, Diversity,
and Applications
Microorganisms for Sustainability
Volume 8
Series editor
Naveen Kumar Arora, Environmental Microbiology, School for Environmental
Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14379
Dilfuza Egamberdieva • Nils-Kåre Birkeland
Hovik Panosyan • Wen-Jun Li
Editors
Extremophiles in Eurasian
Ecosystems: Ecology,
Diversity, and Applications
Editors
Dilfuza Egamberdieva Nils-Kåre Birkeland
Faculty of Biology Department of Biology
National University of Uzbekistan University of Bergen
Tashkent, Uzbekistan Bergen, Norway
Hovik Panosyan Wen-Jun Li
Faculty of Biology School of Life Sciences
Yerevan State University Sun Yat-Sen University
Yerevan, Armenia Guangzhou, China
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Microorganisms for Sustainability
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Foreword
The extremophiles are those microorganisms thriving under extreme conditions
where no other living being will have any chance to survive. The Eurasian zone
examples of extreme habitats are those presenting high temperatures, such as hot
springs, or those with high salt concentrations, such as salines and hypersaline
lakes. The study of extremophiles brings great interest from both the physiological
or environmental and industrial perspectives. For instance, they represent key organ-
isms to understand the limits of life on Earth and the potential existence of life
somewhere else, and the study of their biological characteristics forcing them to
thrive under extreme conditions is a basic milestone to understand the origin of life
and its development through a variety of environments so that microbes have been
able to spread all over our planet. At present, it is known that microorganisms pres-
ent a huge diversity, and among them the extremophiles are of particular interest
because the extreme conditions where they inhabit create relatively restricted envi-
ronments which, a priori, should facilitate the analysis of complex cellular interac-
tions within those ecosystems. Besides, the extreme nature of those interactions and
the physiological capabilities developed in the extremophiles are attracting the
attention of industrial applications. This is easy to understand because the biotech-
nological industry is looking for unique products and applications and the use of
highly durable and stable biocatalysts so that higher production efficiencies and
lower costs can be achieved.
Large numbers of publications from American researchers and from extreme
environments in America are reported. However, one should not forget the contribu-
tions from Eurasian systems and investigators. This book promotes that research
being carried out by scientists on the topics of ecosystems, diversity, and applica-
tions of extremophiles in Eurasia. Thus, this highly significant work adds to the
worldwide advancement in the field and sums up to earlier contributions on the
discovery of novel extremophiles, their ecology, and biotechnological applications
made by numerous highly relevant scientists from the Eurasian continent.
Institute of Natural Resources Juan M. Gonzalez
and Agrobiology, Spanish Council [email protected]
for Research, IRNAS-CSIC
Sevilla, Spain
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Contents
1 Insights into the Thermophile Diversity in Hot Springs
of Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Arshia Amin, Iftikhar Ahmed, Nauman Khalid, Yao Zhang,
Min Xiao, and Wen-Jun Li
2 Hot Springs of India: Occurrence and Microbial Diversity . . . . . . . . 29
Manik Prabhu Narsing Rao, Lan Liu, Jian-Yu Jiao, Min Xiao,
and Wen-Jun Li
3 Diversity of Thermophiles in Terrestrial Hot Springs
of Yunnan and Tibet, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Wen-Dong Xian, Manik Prabhu Narsing Rao, En-Min Zhou,
Lan Liu, Min Xiao, and Wen-Jun Li
4 Microbial Diversity of Terrestrial Geothermal Springs
in Lesser Caucasus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Hovik Panosyan, Armine Margaryan, Liana Poghosyan,
Ani Saghatelyan, Ekaterine Gabashvili, Ekaterine Jaiani,
and Nils-Kåre Birkeland
5 Geobacillus and Anoxybacillus spp. from Terrestrial
Geothermal Springs Worldwide: Diversity
and Biotechnological Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Armine Margaryan, Grigor Shahinyan, Pargev Hovhannisyan,
Hovik Panosyan, Nils-Kåre Birkeland, and Armen Trchounian
6 Thermophiles and Their Exploration for Thermostable
Enzyme Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Nikoleta Boteva and Margarita Kambourova
7 Thermophilic Chemolithotrophic Bacteria in Mining Sites . . . . . . . . 187
Narine S. Vardanyan and Arevik K. Vardanyan
8 Thermophilic and Halophilic Microorganisms Isolated
from Extreme Environments of Turkey, with Potential
Biotechnological Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Kemal Guven, Fatma Matpan Bekler, and Reyhan Gul Guven
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9 Hypersaline Environments of Iran: Prokaryotic Biodiversity
and Their Potentials in Microbial Biotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Atefeh Safarpour, Mohammad Ali Amoozegar,
and Antonio Ventosa
10 Halotolerant and Halophilic Microbes and Their
Environmental Implications in Saline and Hypersaline
Lakes in Qinghai Province, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Hongchen Jiang, Jianrong Huang, and Jiang Yang
11 Soil Salinity and Microbes: Diversity, Ecology,
and Biotechnological Potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Kakhramon Davranov,
and Stephan Wirth
12 Halophilic Actinobacteria Biological Activity
and Potential Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Osama Abdalla Abdelshafy Mohamad, Li Li, Jin-Biao Ma,
Shaimaa Hatab, Bakhtiyor A. Rasulov, Zulpiya Musa,
Yong-Hong Liu, and Wen-Jun Li
13 Microbial Diversity in Asian Deserts: Distribution,
Biotechnological Importance, and Environmental Impacts . . . . . . . . 365
Nimaichand Salam, Zi-Wen Yang, Mipeshwaree Devi Asem,
Wael N. Hozzein, and Wen-Jun Li
14 Trichoderma from Extreme Environments: Physiology,
Diversity, and Antagonistic Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Laith Khalil Tawfeeq Al-Ani
15 Exopolysaccharide-Producing Microorganisms
from Extreme Areas: Chemistry and Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Annarita Poli, Paola Di Donato, Giuseppina Tommonaro,
Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi, Ilaria Finore,
and Barbara Nicolaus
16 Why Settle for Mediocre, When Extremophiles Exist? . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Shivanshi Vashist and Rohit Sharma
17 Use of Acidophilic or Acidotolerant Actinobacteria
for Sustainable Agricultural Production in Acidic Soils . . . . . . . . . . . 453
K. Tamreihao, Nimaichand Salam,
and Debananda S. Ningthoujam
About the Editors
Dilfuza Egamberdieva graduated with a degree in
Biology from the National University of Uzbekistan in
1993. She received her Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences
from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, in
2000. She pursued her postdoctoral studies at the
Helsinki University of Finland (2001, 2008), University
of Florence, Italy (2003), Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK (2006), Leiden University of Netherlands
(2007), and Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape
Research, Germany (2014–2017). In 2009, she estab-
lished the research laboratory “Plant Microbe
Interactions” at the National University of Uzbekistan.
For her outstanding academic achievements she received
numerous fellowship and awards including the
UNESCO-L’OREAL Fellowship for Women in Science
(2006), IUBMB Young Scientist Award (2006), ASM
Morrison Rogosa Award (2006), UNESCO-MAB
Award (2005), Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship
(2014), and in 2012 the TWAS Prize in Agricultural
Sciences for her innovative contributions to the study of
plant-microbe interactions in stressed environments. She
has produced over 80 peer-reviewed publications in
international journals and 40 chapters.
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x About the Editors
Nils-Kåre Birkeland graduated with a degree in
Microbiology from the University of Bergen (Norway),
and received his Dr. philos. degree in Molecular
Microbiology from the University of Oslo (Norway) in
1992. He also has work experience at the NTNU
(Norway), University of Tromsø (Norway), Norwegian
University of Life Sciences, and from sabbaticals in
USA. From 1996 he has been a Professor of Microbiology
at the University of Bergen. His main research areas
during the last 20 years have been anaerobic microbiol-
ogy, extremophiles, and microbial biotechnology. He
has isolated and described a number of novel taxa of
extremophiles and analyzed the molecular mechanisms
for high-temperature adaptations and diversity in
extreme environments. He has published 97 papers in
peer-reviewed journals and 3 book chapters, and has
coordinated a number of international higher educa-
tional/research networks and projects.
Hovik Panosyan graduated with a degree in Biology
from Yerevan State University (YSU) in 1999. He
received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Institute
of Botany of NAS of Armenia in 2003. He has been a
faculty member at YSU since 2002 and was promoted
to Associate Professor in 2011. His main research
areas are Microbial Ecology and Biology of
Extremophilic Microbes. He has received numerous
research fellowships and awards including the FEBS
Short-Term Fellowship (2009 and 2004), FEMS
Research Fellowship (2009), NFSAT (2011), DAAD
(2013) and has participated in international research
together with American, European, and Asian partners
in the context of CRDF and Norwegian SIU grants.
He is currently coordinator and leader of international
research and educational programs, as well as ISME
ambassador of Armenia. He has work experience at
the University of Bergen (Norway), LMU Munich
(Germany), University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA),
and Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry Naples
(Italy). He has published more than 45 research papers
in peer-reviewed journals, 2 books, and 18 chapters.
