Soil Microbiome of the Cold Habitats: Trends and Applications

The present book focuses on cold habitat microbes with the potential source of elite enzymes and secondary metabolites to meet the growing demands of the pharmaceutical, food and biotechnological industries. Microbes living in such extreme cold conditions are reported to produce various biomolecules with potential biotechnological applications. The book overviews recent research trends to discover such important biomolecules, and also suggests recommending future research directions to discover such elite novel biomolecules. It focuses on cold habitat microbes with the potential source of elite enzymes and secondary metabolites to meet the growing demands of the pharmaceutical, food, and biotechnological industries. Salient Features: Covers studies on various biotic communities and abiotic components of the soil of the terrestrial habitats with much focus on cold habitats Discusses various omics approaches viz. metagenomics, and meta-transcriptomics Enlists adaptation strategies adopted by cold-adapted microbes Discusses various biotechnological and industrially important biomolecules produced by cold-adapted microbes will be discussed Explores role of microbial biofilm in the degradation of microplastics in cold habitats