Applications of Metagenomics
Agriculture, Environment, and Health

Coordinators: Thatoi Hrudayanath, Pradhan Sukanta Kumar, Kumar Upendra

Language: English

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Applications of Metagenomics: Agriculture, Environment, and Health examines current metagenomics methods and their applications in soil, polluted environment sites, agriculture production, and health care, with separate sections dedicated to each application area. Special attention is paid to the biotechnological study of novel microbial resources for social welfare. Beyond applications, the book discusses evolving next generation technology and techniques used for carrying out metagenomics studies, and in doing so highlights the latest research and advances in the field, along with ways to adapt these approaches for different study types across the biological sciences.Chapter topics range from metagenomics for studying root microbial communities to microbial diversity of the rhizosphere, fungal diversity, microbial biodiversity in forest environments, the human microbiome, and disease epidemiology, with one chapter dedicated to Covid-19 metagenomics.
Part 1. Introduction
1. Metagenomic: Paradigm shift in microbiology
2. Next-Generation sequencing techniques and its application in metagenomics study
3. Global metagenomic sequencing platforms and marketing
4. Bioinformatics methods in metagenomics
5. Metagenomic and Bioinformatics in microbial ecology: current status and beyond
6. Me Metagenome, metatranscriptome, and metaproteome approaches to unravel microbial communities structure and function

Part 2. Agriculture
7. Impact of long-term agricultural management practices on the rhizosphere microbiome and its impact on plant health
8. Long-term application of compost influences soil and root microbial communities under diverse rice-based cropping systems
9. Assessment of mycorrhizal symbionts on soil organic matter dynamics through metaomics approach
10. Role of metagenomics and metabolomics in exploring the soil microbiota for Sustainable agriculture
11. Effect of long-term application of biosolids on soil physico-chemical and biological properties
12. Plant microbiome: Trends and prospects for sustainable agriculture management
13. Microbial diversity of rhizosphere of the Himalayan plants
14. Rhizosphere microbiome diversity of different food crops
15. AM fungal diversity in rice-based cropping system and its impact on soil health

Part 3. Environment
16. Bio-prospecting of hot spring metagenome and its industrial application
17. Microbial diversity in Ganga river and its impact on fish population
18. Microbial biodiversity in brackish water ecosystem in Eastern India: The Chilika lake
19. Microbial biodiversity in mangrove forest environment
20. Role of microbial- metagenomics potential in bioremediation
21. Assessment of metagenomics-based microbial diversity in mine ecology

Part 4. Health
22. The role of metagenomics in understanding the human microbiome and its relation with medicine
23. Rapid metagenomic identification of pathogens in clinical samples by real-time nanopore sequencing analysis
24. Microbial diversity and their impact on human health
25. Gut microbiota modulation and its relationship with obesity
26. Metagenomic and prebiotic
27. A metagenomic approach to characterize disease epidemiology: A COVID0\-19 pandemic perspective
28. SARS-CoV-2 faecal viral activity in association with gut microbiota composition in patients with COVID-19
29. Wild animals microbiome and its implication in conservation biology 30 Assessment of farm animals microbiome for improvement of health

Prof. (Dr) Hrudayanath Thatoi, is presently serving as Director, Industrial Biotechnology Research(CIBR), Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan, Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar. Previously, Dr Thatoi has also served as Chairman, P.G. Council, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University (MSCBU), Baripada and as Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology, MSCB University. While in MSCBU, Dr Thatoi has also discharged additional responsibilities as the Director, Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), Director, Centre for Similipal Studies and Director Self Finance Courses, Prof-In-Charge, R&D and Library, Coordinator, IDP of Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University. Dr. Thatoi has also served as a Mangrove Biologist and Sr. Scientist in MS Swaminathan Research foundation, Chennai. Dr Thatoi obtained his M.Sc. M. Phil. and Ph.D. from Utkal University and serving as faculty of Biotechnology since 2004. The teaching and research interest of Dr. Thatoi includes molecular biology, industrial and pharmaceutical biotechnology, and microbiology. Dr. Thatoi has implemented several research projects funded by UGC-DAE Govt. of India, DST Govt. of Odisha and Forest Department, Govt. of Odisha. Till date, Dr. Thatoi is credited with publication of 25 books including two textbooks and more than 326 research papers in national and international journals, proceedings of conferences and book chapters and awarded with two patents. He serves as member of several scientific societies and editorial boards of national and international journals. He is a recipient of Samanta Chandrasekhar Award by DST, Govt. of Odisha, Prof. Harihara Pattanaik Award for Environment Science by Orissa Botanical Society and Fellow of Society of Applied Biotechnology. So far, he has guided 20 Ph.D. scholars and a number of M. Tech, B. Tech and M.Phil. students for their thesis and dissertation works. He has visited Bangkok, Nepal and Malaysia to attend International Conferences on Biodiversity and

  • Offers tools to apply evolving next generation sequencing technologies in the detection of disease pathogens, bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites across various environments, as well as host response
  • Includes separate sections dedicated to topics and current studies in environmental science, agriculture production and health care
  • Features chapter contributions from international experts in the field