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Microbial Abundance and Strategies of Adaptation in Various Extreme Environments

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Microbes are versatile community of universe and able to survive at diverse conditions or niches such as deep sea vent, volcanic areas, Polar Regions, core of earth, etc. are the region where microbes can live and reproduce easily by their extremophilic adaptive nature. The adaptation and survival are basically governed by the morpho-phenotypic, biochemical, genetic, and enzymatic secretion strategies. Microbes survive in extreme condition possess a unique feature like thermostability, resistant against chemical denaturants and stability in extreme acidic or alkaline condition. Researchers, who work on the molecular biology isolated many important genes from extremophiles helpful in the industry like paper industry, dairy industry, and in food processing industry. In addition, extremophiles also produce biologically active enzymes like starch, cellulose, chitin, and protein degrading enzymes. The details of morphology to molecular survival strategies are included in this chapter with extremophile approaches to industrial applications.

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  1. Crop Protection Division, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Pooja Misra

  2. Department of Microbiology, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, India

    Dipti Singh

  3. Research and Development Department, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Atul Kumar Srivastava

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  1. Department of Research and Development, Azoth Biotech Pvt. Ltd., Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Raghvendra Pratap Singh

  2. Botany and Environmental Studies, DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

    Geetanjali Manchanda

  3. Division of Life Sciences, Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India

    Kaushik Bhattacharjee

  4. Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

    Hovik Panosyan

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Misra, P., Singh, D., Srivastava, A.K. (2021). Microbial Abundance and Strategies of Adaptation in Various Extreme Environments. In: Singh, R.P., Manchanda, G., Bhattacharjee, K., Panosyan, H. (eds) Microbes in Microbial Communities. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5617-0_5

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