Microorganisms in sustainable agriculture and biotechnology/ T. Satyanarayana, Bhavdish Narain Johri, Anil Prakash,

Part 1. Microbes in sustainable agriculture:

1. Plant growth promotion by phytases and phytase-producing microbes due to amelioration in phosphorous availability / Singh and Satyanarayana.

2. Environmental and nutritional benefits of biopreservation of animal feed / Olstorpe and Passoth.

3. Pivotal role of organic acid secretion by rhizobacteria in plant growth promotion / Archana, Buch, and Kumar.

4. Organic farming: for sustainable production and environmental protection / Sreenivasa.

5. Utilization of psychrotolerant phosphate solubilizing fungi under low temperature conditions of the mountain ecosystem / Rinu, Pandey, and Palni.

6. Antimicrobial Lipopeptides of Bacillus: natural weapons for biocontrol of plant pathogens / Kumar and Johri

7. Frankia and actinorhizal symbiosis / Sen and Misra.

8. Microbes in agrowaste management for sustainable agriculture / Singh, Singh, Misra, Pandey, and Nain.

9. Genetic and antigenic diversity of ruminant pestiviruses: Implications for diagnosis and control / Mishra.

10. Cyanobacteria-PGPR interactions for effective nutrient and pest management strategies in agriculture / Prasanna, Rana, Chaudhary, Joshi, and Nain.

11. Regulation of antibiotics production in biocontrol strains of Pseudomonas spp. / Srivastava, Sinha, Vaishnavi, Kunwar, and Tigga.

12. Exploiting plant growth promoting rhizomicroorganisms for enhanced crop productivity / Desai, Grover, Amalraj, Kumar, and Ahmed.

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.

15. Metagenomics of saline habitats with respect to bacterial phylogeny and biocatalytic potential / Purohit and Singh.

16. Laccases: the biocatalyst with industrial and biotechnological applications / Thakur, Patel, Gupte, and Gupte.

17. Biotechnological applications of biocatalysts from the firmicutes Bacillus and Geobacillus species / Satyanarayana, Sharma, Mehta, Puri, Kumar, Nisha, and Joshi.

18. Recent trends in valorization of lignocellulose to biofuel / Menon and Rao.

19. Probiotic yeasts / Vohra and Satyanarayana.

20. Biotechnological approach to caffeine degradation: current trends and perspectives / Dash and Gummadi.

21. Arxula adeninivorans (Blastobotrys adeninivorans)

an imperfect dimorphic yeast of biotechnological potential / Giersberg, Florschutz, Baronian, and Kunze.

22. The thermostable and multi-functional enzymes catalyzing carbohydrate molecules identified from thermophilic archaea / Kawarabayasi.

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.

25. Halophilic microorganisms as sources of novel enzymes / Kara, Kumar, Sinha, and Khare.

26. Sourcing the fungal endophytes: a beneficial transaction of biodiversity, bioactive natural products, plant protection and nanotechnology / Mishra, Gond, Kumar, Sharma, Verna, Kharwar.

27. Fungi: a potential source of anti-inflammatory compounds / Deshmukh, Vereka, Periyasamy, and Ganguli.

28. Applications of microbial toxins for cancer therapy / Verma, Potala, Mathew, and Choudhary.

29. Application of environmental DNA resources to create useful DNA polymerases with different properties / Ishino and Ishino.

Utilization of tropical fruits for wine production with special emphasis on mango (Mangifera indica L.) wine / Reddy, Joshi and Reddy.

31. Biosystem development for microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) / Nerurkar, Suthar, and Desai.

32. Bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) and carbon catabolite repression / Pandeeti, Kamireddy, Toshisangba, Parthasarathy, Kumar, Siddavattam.

33. Lactic acid bacteria in food industry / Das and Goyal.

34. RNA interference and functional genomics in fungi / Singh and Rajam.

35. Bioethanol: a critical appraisal / Chaudhari, Dandi, Vadnere, Patil, and Chincholkar.