About this Book

 Research on microbes plays an essential role in the improvement of biotechnological

and biomedical areas. It has turned into a subject of expanding significance

as new organisms and their related biomolecules are being characterized for

several applications in health and agriculture. Microbial biomolecules confer the

ability of microbes to cope with a range of adverse conditions. However, these

biomolecules have several advantages over the plant origin, which makes them

a suitable target in drug discovery and development. The reasons could be that

microbial sources can be genetically engineered to enhance the production of

desired natural production by large-scale fermentation. The interaction between

microbes and their biotic and abiotic environment is fundamental to numerous

processes taking place in the biosphere. The natural environments and hosts of

these microorganisms are extremely diverse being reflected by the fact that microbes

are widespread and occur in nearly every biological community on Earth. This

metabolic versatility makes microbes interesting objects for a range of economically

important biotechnological applications. Most of the biotechniques are established

but inefficient genetic engineering strategies are still a bottleneck for selected

microbe producing industrial scale biomolecules. Therefore, untapped microbial

biodiversity and related metablomics, give a noteworthy wellspring of biologicals for

the advancement of meds, immunizations, enhanced plants and for other natural

applications. The present eBook volume contains articles on microbial secondary

metabolites, microbial biosynthetic potential including biosynthetic gene expression,

and metagenomics obtained from microorganism isolated unique from habitats like

marine sources, endophytes, thermal springs, deserts, etc.