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Part 1. Microbes in sustainable agriculture: <br/><br/>1. Plant growth promotion by phytases and phytase-producing microbes due to amelioration in phosphorous availability / Singh and Satyanarayana. <br/><br/>2. Environmental and nutritional benefits of biopreservation of animal feed / Olstorpe and Passoth. <br/><br/>3. Pivotal role of organic acid secretion by rhizobacteria in plant growth promotion / Archana, Buch, and Kumar. <br/><br/>4. Organic farming: for sustainable production and environmental protection / Sreenivasa. <br/><br/>5. Utilization of psychrotolerant phosphate solubilizing fungi under low temperature conditions of the mountain ecosystem / Rinu, Pandey, and Palni. <br/><br/>6. Antimicrobial Lipopeptides of Bacillus: natural weapons for biocontrol of plant pathogens / Kumar and Johri <br/><br/>7. Frankia and actinorhizal symbiosis / Sen and Misra. <br/><br/>8. Microbes in agrowaste management for sustainable agriculture / Singh, Singh, Misra, Pandey, and Nain. <br/><br/>9. Genetic and antigenic diversity of ruminant pestiviruses: Implications for diagnosis and control / Mishra. <br/><br/>10. Cyanobacteria-PGPR interactions for effective nutrient and pest management strategies in agriculture / Prasanna, Rana, Chaudhary, Joshi, and Nain. <br/><br/>11. Regulation of antibiotics production in biocontrol strains of Pseudomonas spp. / Srivastava, Sinha, Vaishnavi, Kunwar, and Tigga. <br/><br/>12. Exploiting plant growth promoting rhizomicroorganisms for enhanced crop productivity / Desai, Grover, Amalraj, Kumar, and Ahmed. <br/><br/>13. Tripartite association among plant, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria / Singh and Prakash. Part 2. Microbes in biotechnology: 14. Metagenomics: a relief road to novel microbial genes and genomes. / Vakhlu, Ambardar, and Johri. <br/><br/>15. Metagenomics of saline habitats with respect to bacterial phylogeny and biocatalytic potential / Purohit and Singh. <br/><br/>16. Laccases: the biocatalyst with industrial and biotechnological applications / Thakur, Patel, Gupte, and Gupte. <br/><br/>17. Biotechnological applications of biocatalysts from the firmicutes Bacillus and Geobacillus species / Satyanarayana, Sharma, Mehta, Puri, Kumar, Nisha, and Joshi. <br/><br/>18. Recent trends in valorization of lignocellulose to biofuel / Menon and Rao. <br/><br/>19. Probiotic yeasts / Vohra and Satyanarayana. <br/><br/>20. Biotechnological approach to caffeine degradation: current trends and perspectives / Dash and Gummadi. <br/><br/>21. Arxula adeninivorans (Blastobotrys adeninivorans) <br/><br/>an imperfect dimorphic yeast of biotechnological potential / Giersberg, Florschutz, Baronian, and Kunze. <br/><br/>22. The thermostable and multi-functional enzymes catalyzing carbohydrate molecules identified from thermophilic archaea / Kawarabayasi. <br/><br/>23. Structural biology of the ribonuclease P in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 / Kimura and Kakuta. / 24. Biosynthesis of pullulan and its applications in food and pharmaceutical industry / Singh and Saini. <br/><br/>25. Halophilic microorganisms as sources of novel enzymes / Kara, Kumar, Sinha, and Khare. <br/><br/>26. Sourcing the fungal endophytes: a beneficial transaction of biodiversity, bioactive natural products, plant protection and nanotechnology / Mishra, Gond, Kumar, Sharma, Verna, Kharwar. <br/><br/>27. Fungi: a potential source of anti-inflammatory compounds / Deshmukh, Vereka, Periyasamy, and Ganguli. <br/><br/>28. Applications of microbial toxins for cancer therapy / Verma, Potala, Mathew, and Choudhary. <br/><br/>29. Application of environmental DNA resources to create useful DNA polymerases with different properties / Ishino and Ishino. <br/><br/>Utilization of tropical fruits for wine production with special emphasis on mango (Mangifera indica L.) wine / Reddy, Joshi and Reddy. <br/><br/>31. Biosystem development for microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) / Nerurkar, Suthar, and Desai. <br/><br/>32. Bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) and carbon catabolite repression / Pandeeti, Kamireddy, Toshisangba, Parthasarathy, Kumar, Siddavattam. <br/><br/>33. Lactic acid bacteria in food industry / Das and Goyal. <br/><br/>34. RNA interference and functional genomics in fungi / Singh and Rajam. <br/><br/>35. Bioethanol: a critical appraisal / Chaudhari, Dandi, Vadnere, Patil, and Chincholkar. |
