Actinobacteria Basics and Biotechnological Applications

✍ Scribed by Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran and Yi Jiang

• Publisher: InTech
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents an introductory overview of Actinobacteria with three main divisions: taxonomic principles, bioprospecting, and agriculture and industrial utility, which covers isolation, cultivation methods, and identification of Actinobacteria and production and biotechnological potential of antibacterial compounds and enzymes from Actinobacteria. Moreover, this book also provides a comprehensive account on plant growth-promoting (PGP) and pollutant degrading ability of Actinobacteria and the exploitation of Actinobacteria as ecofriendly nanofactories for biosynthesis of nanoparticles, such as gold and silver. This book will be beneficial for the graduate students, teachers, researchers, biotechnologists, and other professionals, who are interested to fortify and expand their knowledge about Actinobacteria in the field of Microbiology, Biotechnology, Biomedical Science, Plant Science, Agriculture, Plant pathology, Environmental Science, etc.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1   An Introduction to Actinobacteria by Ranjani Anandan, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai and Gopinath Ponnusamy Manogaran
Chapter 2   Isolation and Cultivation Methods of Actinobacteria by Yi Jiang, Qinyuan Li, Xiu Chen and Chenglin Jiang
Chapter 3   Morphological Identification of Actinobacteria by Qinyuan Li, Xiu Chen, Yi Jiang and Chenglin Jiang
Chapter 4   Cultural, Physiological, and Biochemical Identification of Actinobacteria by Qinyuan Li, Xiu Chen, Yi Jiang and Chenglin Jiang
Chapter 5   Chemotaxonomy of Actinobacteria by Yongxia Wang and Yi Jiang
Chapter 6   Molecular Phylogenetic Identification of Actinobacteria by Xiu Chen, Yi Jiang, Qinyuan Li, Li Han and Chenglin Jiang
Chapter 7   Production of Antibacterial Compounds from Actinomycetes by Letizia Lo Grasso, Delia Chillura Martino and Rosa Alduina
Chapter 8   Biotechnological Potential of Oxidative Enzymes from Actinobacteria by Marilize Le Roes-Hill and Alaric Prins
Chapter 9   Hypersaline Actinomycetes and Their Biological Applications by Mariadhas Valan Arasu, Galal Ali Esmail and Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi
Chapter 10   Actinobacteria as Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria by Marcela Franco-Correa and Vanessa Chavarro-Anzola
Chapter 11   Frankia as a Biodegrading Agent by Medhat Rehan, Erik Swanson and Louis S. Tisa
Chapter 12   Enzymes and Phytohormones from Micromonospora by Waleed M. Abdulkhair and Mousa A. Alghuthaymi
Chapter 13   Industrial Enzymes and Metabolites from Actinobacteria in Food and Medicine Industry by María Valdés Ramírez and Liliana Calzadíaz
Chapter 14   Actinobacteria — A Biofactory of Novel Enzymes by Govindharaj Vaijayanthi, Ramasamy Vijayakumar and Dharmadurai Dhanasekaran
Chapter 15   Advanced Oxidation Process Applied to Actinobacterium Disinfection by Michelle Fernanda Brugnera, Bárbara Camila de Araújo Souza and Maria Valnice Boldrin Zanoni
Chapter 16   Green Nano Actinobacteriology – An Interdisciplinary Study by Mrinalini J. Singh