Modern Tools and Techniques to Understand Microbes

1. Introduction to Modern Tools and Techniques to Understand Microbes
Pankaj Goyal, Diksha Bhola, Ajit Varma

2. Novel Approaches to Identify and Characterise Microorganisms in Food Industry
Gamze Nur Kara, Mustafa Guzel, Bulent Kabak

3. Strategies of Mass Cultivation of Microbes: Sebacinales

Diksha Bhola, Varma Ajit

4. Biophysical Phenotyping as an Essential Tool for Understanding Host–Microbe Interaction
Avinash P. Ingle, Dnyaneshwar Rathod, Marian Brestic, Hazem M. Kalaji, Mahendra Rai

5. Targeted Gene Disruption Tools for Fungal Genomics
Ramesh N. Pudake, Maya Kumari, Binod Bihari Sahu, Eram Sultan

6. Polyphasic Approaches to Characterize Mushroom Species
Neeraj Shrivastava, Vivek Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Binggan Lou, Ajit Varma, Shwet Kamal

7. Function-Based Metagenomics to Reveal Rhizosphere Microbiome: A Glimpse
Devendra K. Choudhary, Ajit Varma

8. Biological Indicators for Soil Health: Potential for Development and Use of On-Farm Tests
Jwad E. Mahdi, Lynette K. Abbott, Natasha Pauli, Zakaria M. Solaiman

9. Mycotoxin Biosynthetic Pathways: A Window on the Evolutionary Relationships Among Toxigenic Fungi
Antonia Susca, Antonio Moretti, Antonio F. Logrieco

10. How to Disentangle Changes in Microbial Function from Changes in Microbial Community
Cruz Cristina, Catarina Gouveia, Teresa Dias, Ajit Varma, Olubukola O. Babalola

11. Legume-Rhizobium Symbioses: Significance for Sustainable Plant Production
Alexander P. Hansen

12. Tools and Techniques to Study Multidrug Transporters of Yeasts
Abdul Haseeb Shah, Sudhanshu Shukla, Rajendra Prasad

13. Approaches for Determining Antimicrobial Drug-Resistant Bacteria: The Way Ahead
Pankaj Goyal, Nim J. Singh, Rupesh Kumar Basniwal, Manoj Kumar, Vivek Kumar, Narendra Tuteja, Ajit Varma

14. Continuous Elution Electrophoresis: A Unique Tool for Microbial Protein Analysis
Smriti Shrivastava, Pratyoosh Shukla, Kunal Mukhopadhyay, Ajit Varma

15. Detection and Characterization of Endobacteria in the Fungal Endophyte Piriformospora indica

Stefanie P. Glaeser, Ibrahim Alabid, Huijuan Guo, Neelendra Kumar, Jafargholi Imani, Peter Kämpfer, Martin Hardt, Tobias Busche, Jörn Kalinowski, Jochen Blom, Alexander Goesmann, Michael Rothballer, Anton Hartmann, Karl-Heinz Kogel

16. Metabolomics-Mediated Characterization of Endophytic Species in Recalcitrant Tree Species
Vivek Kumar, Priyanku Teotia, Narnedra Tuteja, Ram Prasad, Pankaj Goyal, Ajit Varma, Sandeep Bisht, Joginder Singh, Manoj Kumar

17. Analytical Techniques to Assess Medicinal Plants Value Addition After Microbial Associations
Priyanka Sharma, Hemesh Joshi, MZ Abdin, Amit C Kharkwal, Ajit Varma

18. Omics: Tools for Assessing Environmental Microbial Diversity and Composition
Manoj Kumar, Neeraj Shrivastava, Priyanku Teotia, Pankaj Goyal, Ajit Varma, Shivesh Sharma, Narendra Tuteja, Vivek Kumar

19. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Evolution and Functions in Alleviating Plant Drought Stress
T. Li

20. Engineered Nanostructured Materials for Antimicrobial and Photocatalytic Applications
Uma, Manika Khanuja, Ajit Varma

21. Cryopreservation of Microorganisms
S. K. Singh, Abhishek Baghela

22. Microbial Cultures: Maintenance, Preservation and Registration
Sushil K. Sharma, Roshan Kumar, Anukool Vaishnav, Pawan K. Sharma, Udai Bhan Singh, Arun K. Sharma

23. Biosurfactants in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery
Sunita J. Varjani

24. Fed-Batch Cultivation for High Density Culture of Pseudomonas Spp. for Bioinoculant Preparation
Sarma Mutturi, Vikram Sahai, V. S. Bisaria

25. Protocol for Biocontrol of Soybean Cyst Nematode with Root Endophytic Fungi
Ruchika Bajaj, Senyu Chen, Weiming Hu, Yinyin Huang, Ram Prasad, Vivek Kumar, Narendra Tuteja, Ajit Varma, Kathryn E. Bushley

26. Spectrophotometric Assays to Evaluate the Rhizospheric Microbes Mediated Drought Tolerance in Plants
Jaagriti Tyagi, Ramesh N. Pudake

27. Conservation Strategies of New Fungi Samples in Culture Collections: Piriformospora indica Case
V. Caleza, S. Castillo, M. D. Gomis, S. Kamah, R. López, D. Garcia-Seco, A. Varma, K. Akdi

Keywords: Life Sciences, Eukaryotic Microbiology, Mycology, Food Microbiology, Biological Techniques