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This book explores the applications of metagenomics in agriculture, environment, and health. Edited by Hrudayanath Thatoi, Sukanta Kumar Pradhan, and Upendra Kumar, it provides a comprehensive overview of meta-omics approaches for understanding soil microbial communities, the impact of agricultural practices on rhizospheric microbiomes, and the role of plant microbiomes in sustainable agriculture. It also covers the influence of compost on soil and root microbial communities, the role of gut microbiomes in health, and the impact of metagenomics on understanding microbial diversity in various environments such as seagrass rhizospheres, hot springs, and mangrove forests. The book is intended for researchers and practitioners in the fields of microbiology, agriculture, environmental science, and health.

Metagenomics. --- Soil microbiology.

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This book presents a comprehensive collection of articles illustrating the importance of microbial community structure and function for ecosystem sustainability and environmental reclamation. It addresses a diverse range of topics, including microbial diversity, physiology, genomics, ecosystem function, interaction, metabolism, and the fruitful use of microbial communities for crop productivity and environmental remediation. In addition, the book explores issues ranging from general concepts on the diversity of microorganisms in soil, and ecosystem function, to the evolution and taxonomy of soil microbiota, with future prospects. It covers cutting-edge methods in soil microbial ecological studies, rhizosphere microflora, the role of organic matter in plant productivity, biological nitrogen fixation and its genetics, microbial transformation of plant nutrients in soil, plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria, and organic matter transformation. The book also discusses the application of microbes in biodegradation of xenobiotic contaminants. It covers bio-fertilizers and their role in sustainable agriculture and soil health, biological control of insect pests and plant pathogens, and the latest tools of omics in soil microbiology, i.e. genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics, which offer pioneering approaches to the exploration of microbial structure and function.

Genetics --- General microbiology --- General ecology and biosociology --- Toxicology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- genomen (geneeskunde) --- ecotoxicologie --- medische genetica --- proteomics --- farmacologie --- genomics --- duurzaamheid --- microbiologie --- genetica --- toxicologie --- insecten