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Title Volatiles and metabolites of microbes / edited by Ajay Kumar, Joginder Singh and Jastin Samuel
Published London : Academic Press, 2021

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Contents Front Cover -- Volatiles and Metabolites of Microbes -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Microbial secondary metabolites: recent developments and technological challenges -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Microbial metabolites: definitions and diversity -- 1.3 Taxonomic diversity -- 1.4 Biological diversity -- 1.5 Microbial metabolites: classifications -- 1.5.1 Primary metabolites -- 1.5.2 Secondary metabolites -- 1.5.3 Peptides -- 1.5.4 Polyketides -- 1.5.5 Volatile compounds -- 1.5.6 Terpenoids and steroids -- 1.5.7 Growth regulators
1.6 Secondary microbial metabolites: industrial significance -- 1.6.1 Nutraceutical industries -- 1.6.2 Healthcare industries -- 1.6.3 Agriculture industries -- 1.7 Microbial secondary metabolites: recent advances -- 1.7.1 Microbial antitumor agents -- 1.7.2 Microbial immunosuppressive agents -- 1.7.3 Microbial novel antimicrobials -- 1.7.4 Microbial enzyme inhibitors -- 1.7.5 Microbial plant growth promotors -- 1.7.6 Omics approach in biosynthesis of microbial metabolites -- 1.8 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Bacterial volatile organic compounds and gene-induced host-defense pathways
2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Types of bacterial volatile organic compounds and their biological role -- 2.3 Bioconversion -- 2.4 Biomineralization of elements -- 2.5 Quorum sensing/quenching -- 2.6 Communication signals and defense induction -- 2.7 Plant growth promoting effect of bacterial volatiles in agriculture -- 2.8 The role of bacterial VOCs in diary production -- 2.9 Outlook and future perspectives -- References -- 3 Microbial volatiles: small molecules with an important role in intra- and interbacterial genus interactions-quorum sensing -- 3.1 Introduction
3.2 Biosynthesis of bacterial volatile organic compounds -- 3.2.1 Organic volatile compounds -- 3.2.1.1 Ketones -- 3.2.1.2 Terpenes -- 3.2.1.3 Alcohols -- 3.2.1.4 Acids -- 3.2.1.5 Hydrocarbons -- 3.2.2 Inorganic volatile compounds -- 3.3 Bacterial volatile organic compounds in biofilm formation -- 3.4 The role of bacterial volatile organic compounds in agriculture -- 3.5 Inter- and intraspecies communication between bacterial species -- 3.6 Bacterial quorum sensing in human infection -- 3.7 Quorum sensing as a boon for plant growth promotion -- 3.8 Quorum sensing detection technologies
3.9 Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- 4 Detection and purification of microbial volatile organic compounds -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Classification of microbial volatile organic compounds -- 4.2.1 Overview of fungal volatiles -- 4.2.2 Overview of bacterial volatiles -- 4.2.3 Overview of algae volatiles -- 4.3 Analytical techniques used for the detection purification and analysis of microbial volatile organic compound -- 4.4 Chromatography techniques for microbial volatile organic compound identification
Subject Microbial metabolites.
Microbial metabolites
Form Electronic book
Author Kumar, Ajay, PhD.
Singh, Joginder
Samuel, Jastin
ISBN 9780323851640
0323851649