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Microbial Biodegradation and Bioremediation brings together experts in relevant fields to describe the successful application of microbes and their derivatives for bioremediation of potentially toxic and relatively novel compounds. This single-source reference encompasses all categories of pollutants and their applications in a convenient, comprehensive package. Our natural biodiversity and environment is in danger due to the release of continuously emerging potential pollutants by anthropogenic activities. Though many attempts have been made to eradicate and remediate these noxious element.

Microbial bioremediation: a potential tool for restoration of contaminated areas / Surajit Das and Hirak R. Dash -- Heavy metals and hydrocarbons: adverse effects and mechanism of toxicity / Surajit Das, Ritu Raj, Neelam Mangwani, Hirak R. Dash and Jaya Chakraborty -- Nanotoxicity: aspects and concerns in biological systems / Supratim Giri -- Application of molecular techniques for the assessment of microbial communities in contaminated sites / Anirban Chakraborty, Chanchal K. DasGupta and Punyasloke Bhadury -- Microbial indicators for monitoring pollution and bioremediation / Tingting Xu, Nicole Perry, Archana Chuahan, Gary Sayler and Steven Ripp -- Mercury pollution and bioremediation: a case study on biosorption by a marine mercury-resistant bacterium / Jaysankar De, Hirak R. Dash and Surajit Das -- Biosurfactant-based bioremediation of toxic metals / Jaya Chakraborty and Surajit Das -- Biofilm-mediated bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons / Sudhir K. Shukla, Neelam Mangwani, T. Subba Rao and Surajit Das -- Nanoparticle-based bioremediation, microbial biodegredation, and bioremediation / Avinash P. Ingle, Amedea B. Seabra, Nelson Duran and Mahendra Rai -- Bioremediation using extremophiles / Tonya L. Peeples -- Role of actinobacteria in bioremediation / Marta A. Polti, Juan Daniel Aparicio, Claudia S. Benimeli and Mar�ia Julia Amoroso -- Biology, genetic aspects, and oxidative stress response of Streptomyces and strategies for bioremediation of toxic metals / Anindita Mitra -- Bacterial and fungal bioremediation strategies / S. Gouma, S. Fragoeiro, A.C. Bastos and N. Magan -- Microbial bioremediation of industrial effluents / Deviprasad Samantaray, Swati Mohapatra, and Bibhuti Bhusan Mishra -- Phycoremediation coupled with generation of value-added products / Lowell Collins, Devin Alvarez and Ashvini Chauhan -- Feasibility of using bioelectrochemical systems for bioremediation / Song Jin and Paul H. Fallgren -- Microbial bioremediation: a metagenomic approach / Muthuirulan Pushpanathan, Sathyanarayanan Jayashree, Paramasamy Gunasekaran and Jeyaprakash Rajendhran -- In silico approach to bioremediation / Puneet Kumar Singh, Jahangir Imam and Pratyoosh Shukla -- Microalgae in bioremediation: sequestration of greenhouse gases, clearout of fugitive nutrient minerals, and subtraction of toxic elements from waters / K. Uma Devi, G. Swapna and S. Suneetha -- Bioreactor and enzymatic reactions in bioremediation / Arijit Nath, Sudip Chakraborty and Chiranjib Bhattacharjee -- Microbiological metabolism under chemical stress / Rashmi Kataria and Rohit Ruhal -- Bioremediation of pesticides: a case study / Sujata Ray -- Microalgae in removal of heavy metal and organic pollutants from soil / Madhupriya, Neelam Gurung, Koninika Mukherjee and Sutapa Bose -- Bioremediation of aquaculture effluents / Marcel Martinez-Porchas, Luis Rafael Martinez-Cordova, Jose Antonio Lopez-Elias and Marco Antonio Porchas-Cornejo -- Aquifer microbiology at different geogenic settings for environmental biogeotechnology / Beyer A., Weist A., Brangsch H., Stoiber-Lipp J. and Kothe E. -- Exploring prospects of monooxygenase-based biocatalysts in xenobiotics / Kashyap Kumar Dubey, Punit Kumar, Puneet Kumar Singh and Pratyoosh Shukla.