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<p><b>Part I: Fundamental Aspects and Microbiome</b></p>

<p><b>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Bioremediation on the Crossroads of Technology for Environmental Clean-up: An Overview</b></p>

<p>Rawhat Un Nisa, Shayiestah Maqbool, and Anees Un Nisa</p>

<p><b>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Dynamics of Soil Microbiome and its Role in Sustainable Agriculture</b></p>

<p>Debapriya Maitra, Bedaprana Roy, Sudeshna Shyam Choudhury, and Arup Kumar Mitra</p>

<p><b>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Soil Bacteria and Nematodes for Bioremediation and Amelioration of Polluted Soil</b></p>

Gunjan Khandelwal, Viral Chaudhary, Rajeshwari Iyer, and Ankita Dwivedi<p></p>

<p><b>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Phytochelatins and their Application in Bioremediation</b></p>

<p>Isha Sharma, Himanshu Pandey, Kanika Thakur, and Devendra Pandey</p>

<p><b>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Efficacy of Biosurfactants in Bioremediation Process</b></p>

<p>Muthusamy Sanjivkumar, Tanmay Ghosh, Tamilselvan Silambarasan, and Sylvester Sayen Merlin Sophia</p>

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<p><b>Part II: Microalgae and Fungi</b></p>

<p><b>6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) for Sustainable Soil and Plant Health</b></p>

Jean Yves Uwamungu, Guoxi Shi, Yibo Wang, Ashutosh Paliwal, Joseph Oduor Odongo, Ab Waheed Wani<p></p>

<p><b>7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Phytoremediation</b></p>

<p>Najla Bentrad and Louiza Bouhired</p>

<p><b>8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Bioremediation of Contaminated Soil by Microalgae and its Importance in Biofuel</b> <b>Production</b></p>

<p>Harish Kumar Seenivasan, Anil Kumar Moola, and Nooruddin Thajuddin</p>

<p><b>9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Cyanobacteria for Bioremediation of Contaminated Soil</b></p>

<p>Uzma Sultana, Podduturi Vanamala, and Mir Zahoor Gul</p>

<p><b>10.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Role of Microalgae as Biofertilizer for Sustainable Plant and Soil Health</b></p>

<p>Joseph Oduor Odongo, Waheed Ali Panhwar, Junaid Ahmad Malik</p>

<p><b>11.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Soil Bioremediation Approaches Based on the Use of Fungal Enzymes</b></p>

<p>Anoop Kumar Devedee, Monalisa Sahoo, Mehjabeen, Kartikeya Choudhary, and R.K. Singh</p>

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<p><b>Part III: Contaminated Sites and Xenobiotics</b></p>

<p><b>12.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Microbial Inoculants: An Invasive Approach for the Bioremediation of Soil</b> <b>Contaminated with Heavy Metals</b></p>

<p>Priyanka Bumbra, Naresh Tanwar, Vaishali Arora, Babita Khosla, and Jitender Singh Laura</p>

<p><b>13.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Microalgae - A Promising Tool for Heavy Metal Remediation</b></p>

<p>Shahid Mahboob, Lakshmi M, Anand M, Vijayalakshmi S, Ranjitha J, and Junaid Ahmad Malik</p>

<p><b>14.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Role of Rhizobacteria in Phytoremediation of Metal-impacted Sites</b></p>

<p>Dwaipayan Sinha, Satarupa Dey, and Anjana Singh</p>

<p><b>15.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Chromium Pollution and Its Bioremediation: An Overview</b></p>

<p>Kirandeep Kaur, Seema Sharma, and Junaid Ahmad Malik</p>

<p><b>16.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Bioremediation of Antibiotics as a Pollutant in Soil</b></p>

<p>Ashmita Gupta, Yogita Bhatt, Nadeem Rais, Praveen Nagella, and Vasantha VL</p>

<p><b>17.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Microbial Bioremediation of Polythene and Plastics</b></p>

<p>Jean Yves Uwamungu, Rakesh R. Jadhav, Bushra Ghaffar, and Khursheed Ahmad Wani</p>

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<p><b>Part IV: Recent Trends and Approaches</b></p>

<p><b>18.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Carbon Sequestration: An Approach to Sustainable Environment</b></p>

<p>Jasra Anjum, Muzamil Ahmad Sheikh, Avinash Tiwari, Sangeeta Sharma, and Bandna Kumari</p>

<p><b>19.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Biochar as an Emerging Amendment for Remediation of Heavy Metals Contaminated</b> <b>Soil</b></p>

<p>Sakshi Verma, Manoj Kumar, and Nitika Kapoor</p>

<p><b>20.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Nano-bioremediation for the Reclamation and Treatment of Contaminated Sites</b></p>

<p>Madhavi Konni, Bhavya Kavitha Dwarapureddi, and Manoj Kumar Karnena</p>

<p><b>21.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Biotechnological Interventions for Pesticide Remediation and Soil Health</b> <b>Reclamation</b></p>

<p>Vishal Sharma, Tanmay Ghosh, Kartikey Sahil, Amit Guleria, Aayushee Thakur, Gaurav Rana, and Manisha Thakur</p>

<p><b>22.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b><b>Transgenic Approaches for Improving Phytoremediation Potential</b></p>

<p>Gargee Mohanty, Rajashree Das, Ayusman Behera, and Junaid Ahmad Malik</p>

<p>Dr. Malik received B.Sc. (2008) Science from the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K; M.Sc. (2010) in Zoology from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh; and PhD (2015) in Zoology from the same university. He completed his B.Ed program in 2017 from the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K. He started his career as Lecturer in the School Education Department, Govt. of J&K for 2 years. Dr. Malik is now working as a Lecturer in the Department of Zoology, Govt. Degree College, Bijbehara, Kashmir (J&K) and actively involved in teaching and research activities. He has more than 8 years of research experience. His areas of interest are ecology, soil macrofauna, wildlife biology, conservation biology etc.<br> Dr. Malik has published more than 20 research papers in various national and international peer-reviewed journals. He has published 19 books, 31 book chapters and more than 10 popular editorial articles with various publishers like Springer Nature, Elsevier Inc., Taylor and Francis Group and IGI Global. Dr. Malik is acting as the Editor-in-Chief of Inventum Biologicum (An International Journal of Biological Research) published by World Biologica, India. He is also serving as editor and reviewer of several journals with a reasonable repute. He has participated in several State, National, and International conferences, seminars, workshops, and symposia and more than 20 conference papers are to his credit. He is the life member of SBBS (Society for Bioinformatics and Biological Sciences) with membership id LMJ-243. <br> Readers may contact him at editor@worldbiologica.com, or malik.junaidahmad@gmail.com</p>

<p>The&nbsp;introduction of&nbsp;contaminants, due to&nbsp;rapid urbanisation and anthropogenic activities, into&nbsp;the&nbsp;environment causes unsteadiness, distress to&nbsp;the&nbsp;physico-chemical systems including living organisms, which possibly is threatening the&nbsp;dynamics of&nbsp;nature as well as the&nbsp;soil biology by&nbsp;producing certain xenobiotics. Hence, there is an immediate global demand for&nbsp;the&nbsp;diminution of&nbsp;such contaminants and xenobiotics which can otherwise adversely affect the&nbsp;living organisms. Some toxic xenobiotics include synthetic organochlorides such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and some fractions of&nbsp;crude oil and coal. </p>

<p>The&nbsp;advancements in microbiology and biotechnology has lead to&nbsp;the&nbsp;launch of&nbsp;microbial biotechnology as a separate area of&nbsp;research and contributed dramatically to&nbsp;the&nbsp;development of&nbsp;the&nbsp;areas like&nbsp;agriculture, environment, biopharmaceutics, fermented foods, etc. The&nbsp;evolution of&nbsp;new metabolic pathways from&nbsp;natural metabolic cycles has enabled the&nbsp;microorganisms to&nbsp;degrade almost all different complex and resistant xenobiotics found on&nbsp;Earth. Hence, microbes stand an imperative, efficient, green and economical alternative to&nbsp;conventional treatment technologies. </p>

<p>This book comprises chapters dealing with&nbsp;various bioremediation strategies with&nbsp;the&nbsp;help of&nbsp;different groups of&nbsp;microorganisms along with&nbsp;detailed graphical/ diagrammatical representations. It also focuses on&nbsp;the&nbsp;use of&nbsp;microbial biotechnology and highlights the&nbsp;recent developments in microbial biotechnology in the&nbsp;area of&nbsp;agriculture and environment. &nbsp;Furthermore, it contains a detailed comprehensive account for&nbsp;the&nbsp;microbial treatment technologies from&nbsp;unsustainable to&nbsp;sustainable which includes chapters prepared by&nbsp;professionals, several researchers, scientists, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across the&nbsp;world with&nbsp;expertise in environmental microbiology, biotechnology, bioremediation, and environmental engineering. The&nbsp;research presented also highlights some of&nbsp;the&nbsp;significantly important microbial species involved in remediation, the&nbsp;physiology, biochemistry and the&nbsp;mechanisms of&nbsp;remediation by&nbsp;various microbes, and suggestions for&nbsp;future improvement of&nbsp;bioremediation technology. </p>

This book would serve as a quick reference book for&nbsp;graduate and postgraduate students pursuing their study in any branch of&nbsp;life sciences, microbiology, health sciences and environmental biotechnology as well as researchers and scientists working in laboratories and industries involved in research related to&nbsp;microbiology, environmental biotechnology and allied researches.

<p>Discusses important microbial activities such as biofertilizer, biocontrol, biodegradation, and bioremediation</p><p>Covers advanced microbial bio-remediation techniques from the laboratory to the field</p><p>Provides detailed complementary techniques that support the effective deployment of a bioremediation approach</p>