Management of Microbial Resources in the Environment; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Management of Microbial Resources in the Environment: A Broad Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 Microbial Resources; 3 Storage of Microbial Resources; 3.1 Role of Culture Collections; 3.2 Bioinformatics and Culture Collection; 4 Microbial Resource Management (MRM); 4.1 Advances in Microbial Resource Management; 5 Utilization of Microbial Resources; 5.1 Environmental Management; 5.2 Energy Development; 5.3 Bio-chemical Refining; 5.4 Industrial Enzymes and Biocatalysts 5.5 Utilization of Microbial Resources in Extreme Environments6 Recent Development in Microbial Resource Utilization; 6.1 Isolation and Microorganism Culture Technology and Metagenomics Technology; 6.2 Combinatorial Biochemistry Technology; 6.3 Directed Evolution Technology; 6.4 Biological Information Technology; 7 Conclusions; References; Chapter 2: Recent Development in the Methods of Studying Microbial Diversity; 1 Introduction; 2 Culture-Dependent Methods of Community Analysis; 2.1 Dilution Plating and Culturing Methods; 2.2 Community-Level Physiological Profiles 3 Culture-Independent Methods of Community Analysis3.1 Phospholipid Fatty Acid Analysis; 3.2 Nucleic Acid Techniques; 3.2.1 Nucleic Acid Composition and Similarity; Guanine Plus Cytosine (G + C) Content; Quantitative Nucleic Acid Hybridization; 3.2.2 Pattern Techniques; Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP); Ribotyping; Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD); Amplified Fragment-Length Polymorphism (AFLP); Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis (ARISA) and Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis (RISA); Single-Strand Conformational Polymorphism (SSCP) Amplified DNA Restriction Analysis (ADRA)Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) and Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (TGGE); 3.3 Phylogenetic Analysis; 3.4 Nucleic Acid Hybridization and Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH); 4 Single-Cell Analysis Methods; 4.1 Dilution-to-Extinction Method; 4.2 Micromanipulation; 4.3 Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting; 4.4 Microfluidics; 4.5 Compartmentalization of Single Cells; 5 Combined Use with Other Techniques; 5.1 Viable-Cell Staining; 5.2 Direct Viable Count; 5.3 Antibody Staining 5.4 In Situ Hybridization and Other Culture-Independent Analysis5.5 In Vivo Hybridization; 5.6 Autofluorescent Proteins; 6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Microbial Resource Centers Towards Harnessing Microbial Diversity for Human Welfare; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 History of Culture Collections; 3.2.1 Establishment of the World Federation of Culture Collections (WFCC); 3.3 Status of Culture Collections; 3.4 Roles of Culture Collections; 3.4.1 Accession and Deposition of Cultures; 3.4.2 Preservation; 3.4.3 Supply of Culture; 3.4.4 Research, Consultancy and Training 3.4.5 Strain Data and Information 1. Management of Microbial Resources in the Environment: A Broad Perspective -- 2. Recent development in the methods of studying microbial diversity -- 3. Microbial resource centres towards harnessing microbial diversity for human welfare -- 4. Fungal Biodiversity: A potential tool in plant disease management -- 5. Polyphasic identification and preservation of fungal diversity: concepts and applications -- 6. Bioinformatics approaches in studying microbial diversity -- 7. Recent advantages in metagenomic studies of soil microbial communities -- 8. Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) carrying catabolic genes -- 9. Conjugative plasmids in anthropogenic soils -- 10. Potential eco-friendly soil microorganisms: Road towards green and sustainable agriculture -- 11. Current Aspects of Metal Resistant Bacteria in Bioremediation: From Genes to Ecosystem -- 12. Anaerobic Digestion of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste -- 13. Microbial Insecticides: Food Security and Human Health -- 14. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): Microbes in Sustainable Agriculture -- 15. Antibiotic resistance gene pool and Bacterial adaptation to Xenobiotics in the Environment -- 16. Synthetic lethal genetic interaction network and its utility for anticancer therapy -- 17. Adaptation of Candida albicans for growth within the host -- 18. Microbial biotechnology in marine biosystems -- 19. Bacteriocins: natural weapons for control of food pathogens -- 20. Anaerobic degradation of lindane and related compounds. . | 
