"Actinobacteria: Basics and Biotechnological Applications" ed. by Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran and Yi Jiang

This book presents an introductory overview of Actinobacteria with three main divisions: taxonomic principles, bioprospecting, and agriculture and industrial utility, which covers isolation, cultivation methods, and identification of Actinobacteria and production and biotechnological potential of antibacterial compounds and enzymes from Actinobacteria.

The book provides a comprehensive account on plant growth-promoting (PGP) and pollutant degrading ability of Actinobacteria and the exploitation of Actinobacteria as ecofriendly nanofactories for biosynthesis of nanoparticles, such as gold and silver.

This book will be beneficial for the graduate students, teachers, researchers, biotechnologists, and other professionals, who are interested to fortify and expand their knowledge about Actinobacteria in the field of Microbiology, Biotechnology, Biomedical Science, Plant Science, Agriculture, Plant pathology, Environmental Science, etc.

Contents
Preface
1 An Introduction to Actinobacteria
2 Isolation and Cultivation Methods of Actinobacteria
3 Morphological Identification of Actinobacteria
4 Cultural, Physiological, and Biochemical Identification of Actinobacteria
5 Chemotaxonomy of Actinobacteria
6 Molecular Phylogenetic Identification of Actinobacteria
7 Production of Antibacterial Compounds from Actinomycetes
8 Biotechnological Potential of Oxidative Enzymes from Actinobacteria
9 Hypersaline Actinomycetes and Their Biological Applications
10 Actinobacteria as Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria
11 Frankia as a Biodegrading Agent
12 Enzymes and Phytohormones from Micromonospora
13 Industrial Enzymes and Metabolites from Actinobacteria in Food and Medicine Industry
14 Actinobacteria — A Biofactory of Novel Enzymes
15 Advanced Oxidation Process Applied to Actinobacterium Disinfection
16 Green Nano Actinobacteriology – An Interdisciplinary Study