Soil Microbiome of the Cold Habitats: Trends and Applications

This book focuses on cold habitat microbes as a potential  source of elite enzymes and secondary metabolites to meet the growing  demands of the pharmaceutical, food and biotechnological industries.  Microbes living in such extremely 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 future research directions to discover such elite novel  biomolecules. 

Salient features:

• Covers  studies on various biotic communities and abiotic components of the  soil of terrestrial habitats with a focus on cold habitats
• Discusses various 'Omic' approaches: metagenomics and meta-transcriptomics
• Lists adaptation strategies adopted by cold-adapted microbes
• Highlights various biotechnological and industrially important biomolecules produced by cold-adapted microbes 
• Explores the role of microbial biofilm in the degradation of microplastics in cold habitats