A one-stop-shop for fundamentals of soil microbiology as well as its applications Comprehensively covers recent technologies for study of microbial diversity and function Contains an update on genomic inventory of plant beneficial microorganisms Enriches the understanding on use of microbes in environmental cleanup as a sustainable approach

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Dr. Tapan kumar Adhya is currently the Director, South Asia Nitrogen Centre, New Delhi and also working as Professor in the School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubneswar, Odisha, India. He has more than 150 publications and 30 book chapters. Mr. Balaram Mohapatra is currently doing Phd from IIT Kharagpur, India. Dr. Dhiraj Paul DST is presently working as young scientist, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India. Mr. Subhasis Das is presently working in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology Division TERI-The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India.

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Chapter 1: Soil Microbiology in the coming decades (Adhya).- Chapter 2: Molecular genomic techniques for identification of soil microbial community structure and dynamics (Dhiraj Paul).- Chapter 3: Omics tools in Soil microbiology: The state of the art (Angana Sarkar).- Chapter 4: Diversity of sulfur oxidizing and reducing microbes in diverse ecosystems (Upendra Kumar).- Chapter 5: Microbial cycling of arsenic in the aquifers of Bengal delta plain (BDP) (Punyasloke Bhadury).- Chapter 6: Bacterial communities of Uranium contaminated tailing ponds and their interactions with different heavy metals (Paltu Kumar Dhal).- Chapter 7: Microbial cycling of greenhouse gases and their impact on climate change (Santosh Ranjan Mohanty).- Chapter 8: Microbe Mediated Bioremediation: An Ecofriendly Sustainable Approach for Environmental Clean-Up (Seema Sangwan).- Chapter 9: Remediation of oily sludge and oil contaminated soil from petroleum industry.- Chapter 10: Microbial soil enzymes(Swati Joshi).- Chapter 11: Biosurfactants in soil bioremediation (Vivek Rangarajan).