(Soil Biology) 1st ed. 2015 Edition
by Lala Behari Sukla (Editor), Nilotpala Pradhan (Editor), Sandeep Panda (Editor), Barada Kanta Mishra (Editor)
This book provides a timely review
of strategies for coping with polluted ecosystems by employing
bacteria, fungi and algae. It presents the vast variety of microbial
technologies currently applied in the bioremediation of a variety of
anthropogenic toxic chemicals, mining and industrial wastes and other
pollutants.
Topics covered include: microbe-mineral interactions,
biosensors in environmental monitoring, iron-mineral transformation,
microbial biosurfactants, bioconversion of cotton gin waste to
bioethanol, anaerobe bioleaching and sulfide oxidation. Further chapters
discuss the effects of pollution on microbial diversity, as well as the
role of microbes in the bioremediation of abandoned mining areas,
industrial and horticultural wastes, wastewater and sites polluted with
hydrocarbons, heavy metals, manganese and uranium.
