A. Biomedicine
1) Role of Bacteria in Nanocompounds formation and their Application in Medical
Rubbel Singla, Anika Guliani, Avnesh Kumari, Sudesh Kumar Yadav
2) Microbial Source of Melatonin and Its Clinical Aspects
Sanjay Kumar*, Brendan P Mulligan, Shreesh Ojha, Alex H Tinson
3) Major Source of Marine Actinobacteria and its Biomedical application
Ram Baskaran, Ashok Kumar, Wu Zuo, Gaobing Wu, Mohammad Asadur Rahman, JunPeng Chen, Shaowei Zhang
4) Antimycobacterial Agents: To Target or Not to Target
Andaleeb Sajid*, Gunjan Arora, Richa Virmani, and Anshika Singhal
B. Agriculture
5) Microbial Biofilm: Role in crop productivity
Bhagwan Rekadwad, and Chandrahasya Khobragade
6) Bacterial quorum sensing (QS) in rhizosphere (paddy soil): Understanding soil signaling and N- recycling for increased crop production
Bhagwan Rekadwad, and Chandrahasya Khobragade
7) Use of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria as biocontrol agents. Induced systemic resistance against biotic stress in plants.
María Victoria Salomon, Iván Funes Pinter, Patricia Piccoli, Rubén Bottini
8) Biological Routes for the Synthesis of Platform Chemicals from Biomass Feedstocks
Md. Imteyaz Alama, Mohammad Asif Alib, Shelaka Guptaa, M. Ali Haider
C. Industry 9) Green synthesis of hydroxamic acid and its potential industrial applications
Bhatia Ravi Kant, Bhatia Shashi Kant, Bhalla Tek Chand and Bhatt Arvind Kumar
10) Bioactive Natural Products: An overview- with particular emphasis on those possessing potential to inhibit microbial quorum sensing
Vijay Kothari*, Pooja Patel, and Chinmayi Joshi
11) Fungi imperfecti laccase: Biotechnological potential and perspectives
Bhagwan Rekadwad, Chandrahasya Khobragade
12) Biosurfactants: a multifunctional microbial metabolite
Neha Panjiar, Shashwati Ghosh Sachan, and Ashish Sachan
13) Bioproduction of polyhydroxyalkanoate from plant oils
Fakhrul Ikhma Bin Mohd Fadzil, Takeharu Tsuge
14) Microbial Synthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoates: Diversification
Qi Wang*, and Changshui Liu
15) Microbe derived itaconic acid: Novel route for biopolyamides
Mohammad Asif Ali, and Tatsuo Kaneko
16) Basics of Methanogenesis in Anaerobic Digester
Vinay Patel+, Soumya Pandit+, Kuppam Chandrasekhar
17) Laccases: Blue Copper Oxidase in Lignocellulose Processing
Dayanand C Kalyani, Jogi Madhuprakash, and Svein Jarle Horn
About the Author: Dr. Vipin Chandra Kalia is presently working as Chief Scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi. He is a Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Delhi. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Genetics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been elected as: (1) Fellow of the Association of Microbiologists of India (FAMI), (2) Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), and (3) Fellow of National Academy of agricultural Sciences (FNAAS). His main areas of research are microbial biodiversity, genomics, and evolution, bioenergy, biopolymers, antimicrobials, quorum sensing, and quorum quenching. He has published 101 papers in scientific journals such as (1) Nature Biotechnology, (2) Biotechnology Advances, (3) Trends in Biotechnology, (4) Critical Reviews in Microbiology, (5) Bioresource Technology, (6) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, (7) PLoS ONE, (8) BMC Genomics, (9) Gene, and (10) Annual Review of Microbiology. His works have been cited 3558 times with a h index of 31 and an i10 index of 66. He has edited 3 books: Quorum sensing versus quorum quenching: A battle with no end in sight (2015, Springer India), Microbial Factories Vol 1 and 2 (2015). He is presently the editor in chief of the Indian Journal of Microbiology and Editor of (1) PLoS ONE, (2)Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology (Korea), (3) Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology (USA), (4) International Scholarly Research Notices (Energy), (5) Dataset Papers in Science (Microbiology), and (6) Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine. He is a life member of the following scientific societies: (1) Society of Biological Chemists of India (2) Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, India; (3) Association of Microbiologists of India; (4) Indian Science Congress Association; (5) BioEnergy Society of India, and (6) the Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI). He is also a member of the American Society for Microbiology.
