Unravelling the Soil Microbiome, 1st ed. 2020 Perspectives For Environmental Sustainability SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science Series

This book explores the significance of soil microbial diversity to understand its utility in soil functions, ecosystem services, environmental sustainability, and achieving the sustainable development goals. With a focus on agriculture and environment, the book highlights the importance of the microbial world by providing state-of-the-art technologies for examining the structural and functional attributes of soil microbial diversity for applications in healthcare, industrial biotechnology, and bioremediation studies. In seven chapters, the book will act as a primer for students, environmental biotechnologists, microbial ecologists, plant scientists, and agricultural microbiologists. 

Dr. Rama Kant Dubey is a doctoral research fellow, working in the area of plant-microbe interactions, sustainable agriculture and soil system sustainability at Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, India. Being a Green Talent Awardee (BMBF, Govt. of Germany), he has also worked as a Guest Researcher at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany. He did his MSc. in Industrial Microbiology from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore. He has received AU-CBT Excellence Award of Biotech Research Society of India, and NASI-Swarna Jayanti Puraskar’ from the and National Academy of Sciences, India. Mr. Dubey has been serving as an active member for the Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), IUCN and serving as an Editor of the ‘Agroecosystems Newsletter’ of the IUCN-CEM Agroecosystems Specialist Group and special issue in Agronomy (MDPI). He is also serving as an expert reviewer for the various international research journals from Elsevier, Springer-Nature, Wiley, and PLOS. 

Dr. Vishal Tripathi is a Research Scholar at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University. His research interest lies in restoration and management of polluted lands and understanding the plant-microbe-pollutant interactions under changing climate to develop future remediation strategies. He has been recipient of the prestigious Green Talents Award of the Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF), Germany for the year 2018. He has also been conferred with AU-CBT Research Excellence award of The Biotech Research Society of India, for the year 2016.  He is a member of the Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) and serving as an expert reviewer for several international journals namely Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Biomass and Bioenergy (Elsevier), Agronomy for Sustainable Development (Springer), Restoration Ecology (Wiley), Biodegradation (Springer

Highlights the importance of the soil microbial world in an agriculture and sustainability context

Provides state-of-the-art technologies for the exploration of the structural and functional attributes of soil microbial diversity

Presents microbial community analyses for applications in agriculture, and environmental biotechnology