Impact of Microbial Diversity on the Environment
- Authors: Hiba Alatrash1, Abdel Rahman M. Tawaha2, Abdel Razzaq Al Tawaha3, Samia Khanum4, Abdur Rauf5, Arun Karnwal6, Abhijit Dey7, Sameena Lone8, Khursheed Hussain9, Palani Saranraj10, Imran11, Amanullah12, Shah Khalid13
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Department of Field Crops, General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Aleppo,Syria 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Al Hussein bin Talal University, P.O. Box 20, Maan, Jordan 3 Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang,Selangor, Malaysia 4 Department of Botany, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan 5 Department of Chemistry, University of Swabi, Anbar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan 6 Department of Microbiology, School of Bioengineering and BioSciences, Lovely ProfessionalUniversity, Phagwara, India 7 Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India 8 Division of Vegetable Science, SKUAST-Kashmir, India 9 Division of Vegetable Science, SKUAST-Kashmir, India 10 Department of Microbiology, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Tirupattur 635601, TamilNadu, India 11 Department of Agronomy, the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan 12 Department of Agronomy, the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan 13 Department of Agronomy, the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
- Source: Environmental Microbiology: Advanced Research and Multidisciplinary Applications , pp 22-40
- Publication Date: August 2022
- Language: English
Microbial diversity is an essential aspect of any ecosystem on earth. Microorganisms are the most common and diversified population in the soil. A microbe is a microscopic organism that can be studied in a single-cell or colony. On the other hand, microbes have a positive or negative effect on their surroundings. Microbial diversity plays an essential role in bioremediation, which is the method of detoxifying or neutralizing radioactive waste into less harmful or non-toxic compounds by secreting various bacterial and fungal enzymes. In this chapter, we focus on (i) the impact of microbial diversity on detoxifying pollutants (bioremediation), (ii) microbial role in biofuel production, (iii) microbial role in ore leaching (bioleaching), (iv) microbial role in controlling biogeochemical cycles (v) microbial role in soil quality and agriculture improvement (vi)
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