Microbial Versatility in Varied Environments

Chapter 1. The Multifaceted life of microbes: Survival in varied environments.- Chapter 2. Thermophilic and Halophilic prokaryotes Isolated from Extreme Environments of Armenia and their Biotechnological Potential.- Chapter 3. Microbial life at extreme of salt concentration: adaptation strategies.- Chapter 4. Rhizobia at extremes of acidity, alkalinity, salinity, and temperature.- Chapter 5. Mechanism of microbial adaption and survival within psychrophilic habitat.- Chapter 6. Secretome of microbiota in extreme conditions.- Chapter 7. Deciphering the key factors for heavy-metal resistance in gram negative bacteria.- Chapter 8. Bioactive compounds from extremophiles.- Chapter 9. Metalotolerant bacteria: Insights into the bacteria thriving in the metal contaminated areas.- Chapter 10. Endophytic actinomycetes mediated Modulation of Defense and Systemic Resistance confers host plant fitness under biotic stress conditions.- Chapter 11. Microbial life in stress of oxygen concentration: physio-chemical properties and applications.- Chapter  12. Bacterial metabolic fitness during pathogenesis.

Dr. Raghvendra Pratap Singh is an eminent scientist in the field of Microbial Biotechnology and is presently working at the Research and Development Department at Uttaranchal University, Dehradun, India. His research contributions largely concern the ecology of Myxobacteria, plant-microbe interaction and microbial genomics. He has received awards and honors from various scientific agencies and societies, e.g. a Young Scientist Award from the ABA-2017, SERB-DST grant, certification award from the FDA India, Chinese Postdoctoral Grant, DBT travel grant etc. In addition, Dr. Singh has published several international research articles in microbiology and biotechnology journals, numerous book chapters, and a highly successful textbook published by ICAR, New Delhi, India. Dr. Geetanjali is working as Head of the Botany Department at DAV University, Jalandhar, India. She has worked extensively on plant-microbe interactions in stressed and contaminated environments, with a special focus on mycorrhizae for the fortification of various crops. She has received prestigious research grants from the DST, India and IFS Sweden. She has contributed immensely to the scientific community by publishing research papers and book chapters. She recently authored a book on the use of omics technology for microbiology, published by ICAR, New Delhi, India.