Microbial Biotechnology: Volume 1. Applications in Agriculture and Environment

489 Pages·2017·9.33 MB·English

by  Jayanta Kumar Patra

Microbial
Biotechnology
Volume 1
Applications in Agriculture
and Environment
Jayanta Kumar Patra
Chethala N. Vishnuprasad
Gitishree Das Editors
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Microbial Biotechnology
Jayanta Kumar Patra
Chethala N. Vishnuprasad
Gitishree Das
Editors
Microbial Biotechnology
Volume 1. Applications in Agriculture
and Environment
Editors
Jayanta Kumar Patra Chethala N. Vishnuprasad
Dongguk University TransDisciplinary University
Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do Bangalore, Karnataka, India
South Korea
Gitishree Das
Dongguk University
Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do
South Korea
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Foreword
At a time when biotechnological applications are
moving into innovative areas and the technology is
transforming itself with quicker, cheaper, and pre-
dictable options, this publication is very timely. Many
of us are aware that biotechnology has contributed
immensely to our ability to deal with environmental
and agricultural applications, starting from the Ananda
Chakrabarty’s engineered bacteria to the CRISPR-
CAS9 technology.
These developments have increased our ability to
access and experiment with novel combinations of
genes and resulting characters. The selection of
chapters in this compilation is varied providing the reader an overview of current
applications and challenges in relation to biotechnology for agriculture and
environment.
Particularly intriguing is the fact that the chapters, focusing on application of
microbial biotechnology for environment and agriculture, deal with advanced appli-
cations such as nano-biotechnology to use of biocontrol agents with more targeted
actions.
Let us congratulate the authors and editors (Dr. CN Vishnuprasad, Dr. JK Patra,
and Dr. Gitishree Das) for their contribution through this volume, especially when
debates continue to increase on simplified interventions for complex problems and
the need to revisit some fundamentals of biotechnological processes to understand
new applications.
Vice-Chancellor, TransDisciplinary University Balakrishna Pisupati
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
August 2017
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Preface
Humans are considered as the most highly evolved species in the earth. Perhaps,
microbes are placed in the lowest strata of evolution. Nevertheless, without these
‘simple, tiny, invisible’ creatures, earth is meaningless, nonfunctional and inhabit-
able. Yes, microbes are everywhere. For thousands of years, microorganisms have
been part of our life in various ways. They were helping us with biotechnological
processes like fermentation. Later, the advancements in microbiology and biotech-
nology lead to the launch of microbial biotechnology as a separate area of research
and contributed dramatically to the development of the areas like agriculture, envi-
ronment, biopharmaceutics, fermented foods, etc. Microbial biotechnology is one
of the most influencing fields that attract researchers all over the globe. The book,
Microbial Biotechnology: Applications in Agriculture and Environment Volume 1, is
a collection of articles highlighting the recent developments in microbial biotech-
nology in the area of agriculture and environment.
The book is divided into two major sections: (a) ‘Applications of Microbes in
Agriculture’ and (b) ‘Applications of Microbes for the Benefit of the Environment’.
These sections cover the recent developments in the applications of microorganism
in various fields such as agriculture and environment. The first section of the book
covers some of the emerging areas like agricultural nanotechnology emphasizing its
current application and future prospects, promising applications of biofuels pro-
duced with the help of algae, advancements and application of microbial keratinase
in agriculture as well as the role of Bacillus sp. as a biocontrol agent for rice patho-
gens. Besides these, this section also talks about how microbial biotechnology helps
in sustainable agriculture practice. Articles discussing the role of plant growth-
promoting rhizobacteria and bacterial siderophore as plant growth promoter and
exploring the use of fungi and actinobacteria for sustainable agriculture are exam-
ples for this. As a component of sustainable agriculture practice, the use of microbes
in detoxifying the organophosphate pesticide residues is also discussed.
The second section of the book, ‘Applications of Microbes for the Benefit of the
Environment’, primarily focuses on the use of microbial biotechnology for the
detoxification and cleaning of the environment. Aspects like bio-surfactants, bio-
films, bio-detoxification of heavy metals, bioremediation of hexavalent chromium,
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degradation of phenol and phenolic compounds as well as microbial interaction
with metals and metalloids are discussed in this section. Additionally, articles dis-
cussing the bioprospecting of endophytes for sustainable agriculture and environ-
ment as well as the concept of bioelectricity are also discussed.
This volume is the culmination of the efforts of several researchers, scientists,
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across the world who are well known in
their respective areas of specialization. This book would serve as a quick reference
book for the graduate and postgraduate students pursuing their study in any branch
of life sciences, microbiology, health sciences and environmental biotechnology as
well as researchers and scientists working in the laboratories and industries involved
in research related to microbiology, environmental biotechnology and allied
researches. We hope this edited volume of Microbial Biotechnology: Application in
Agriculture and Environment would become an invaluable reference tool for
researchers in their respective area of specialization.
We express our appreciation to all of the contributing authors who helped us
tremendously with their contributions. We thank all of them for their time, critical
thoughts and suggestions that enabled us to put together this peer-reviewed edited
volume. We express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Balakrishna Pisupati, Vice
Chancellor, TransDisciplinary University (TDU), Bengaluru, India, for writing the
foreword for the book.
We are also thankful to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore, and their
team members particularly Dr. Sue Lee, associate editor, Biomedicine, Springer
Nature, South Korea, for giving us the opportunity to publish this volume. Lastly,
we thank our family members for their love, support, encouragement and patience
during the entire period of this work.
Dongguk University, Goyang-si, South Korea Jayanta Kumar Patra
Gitishree Das
TDU, Bengaluru, India Chethala N. Vishnuprasad
Contents
Part I Application of Microbes in Agriculture
1 Agricultural Nanotechnologies: Current Applications
and Future Prospects .............................................................................. 3
Rout George Kerry, Sushanto Gouda, Gitishree Das,
Chethala N. Vishnuprasad, and Jayanta Kumar Patra
2 Antimycotic Role of Soil Bacillus sp. Against Rice
Pathogens: A Biocontrol Prospective .................................................... 29
Suraja Kumar Nayak, Swapnarani Nayak,
and Bibhuti Bhusan Mishra
3 R ole of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria
in Reclamation of Wasteland ................................................................. 61
Ifra Zoomi, Raghvendra Pratap Narayan, Ovaid Akhtar,
and Pragya Srivastava
4 Promising Applications for the Production
of Biofuels Through Algae ...................................................................... 81
Nafe Aziz, Ram Prasad, Amr I.M. Ibrahim,
and Ahmed I.S. Ahmed
5 A dvances in Microbial Keratinase and Its Potential
Applications ............................................................................................. 105
Dipak K. Sahoo, H.N. Thatoi, Bhabatosh Mitra,
Keshab C. Mondal, and Pradeep K. Das Mohapatra
6 E xploitation of Fungi and Actinobacteria for Sustainable
Agriculture ............................................................................................... 135
Reshma R. Anilkumar, Lekshmi K. Edison,
and N.S. Pradeep
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7 Bacterial Siderophore as a Plant Growth Promoter ............................ 163
A. Pahari, A. Pradhan, S.K. Nayak, and B.B. Mishra
8 Role of Microbial Technology in Agricultural Sustainability ............. 181
Sushanto Gouda, Suman Nayak, Shristy Bishwakarma,
Rout George Kerry, Gitishree Das, and Jayanta Kumar Patra
9 Soil Microbial Diversity and Its Utilization in Agriculture
in Sri Lanka ............................................................................................. 203
S.A. Kulasooriya, Gamini Seneviratne,
and E.M.H.G.S. Ekanayake
10 Microbial Detoxification of Residual Organophosphate
Pesticides in Agricultural Practices ....................................................... 225
Lata S.B. Upadhyay and Aditya Dutt
Part II Application of Microbes for Benefit of Environment
11 Bacterial Degradation of Phenol to Control
Environmental Pollution......................................................................... 245
Anna S. Kynadi and T.V. Suchithra
12 Mineral Solubilization by Microorganism:
Mitigating Strategy in Mineral Deficient Soil ...................................... 265
Gausiya Bashri, Anuradha Patel, Rachana Singh, Parul Parihar,
and Sheo Mohan Prasad
13 Detoxification and Bioremediation of Hexavalent
Chromium Using Microbes and Their Genes:
An Insight into Genomic, Proteomic
and Bioinformatics Studies .................................................................... 287
H.N. Thatoi and S.K. Pradhan
14 Microbial Interaction with Metals and Metalloids:
A Prospective Clean Environment ......................................................... 307
Angana Sarkar, Neha Gupta, Nitya Kumari, and Kriti Gupta
15 Biodetoxification of Toxic Heavy Metals by Marine
Metal Resistant Bacteria- A Novel Approach
for Bioremediation of the Polluted Saline Environment ..................... 343
Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra, Pankaj Kumar Parhi,
Jayanta Kumar Patra, Chitta Ranjan Panda,
and H.N. Thatoi
16 Role of Biofilms in Environment Pollution and Control ..................... 377
Mukesh Kumar Yadav
17 Sustainable Bioelectricity Generation from Living Plants .................. 399
Mohnish Borker, T.V. Suchithra, M. Srinivas, and S. Jayaraj
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18 Biosurfactants: An Agent to Keep Environment Clean ....................... 413
Padma Mahanti, Sanjeet Kumar, and Jayanta Kumar Patra
19 Bioprospecting of Endophytes for Agricultural
and Environmental Sustainability ......................................................... 429
Sabuj Sahoo, Sarmistha Sarangi, and Rout George Kerry
20 Tools and Techniques for Genetic Engineering
of Bio-Prospective Microorganisms ....................................................... 459
Balasubramani S.P. and Vanitha Ramesh
Index ................................................................................................................. 477