Bioprospecting

Success, Potential and Constraints

AvRussell Paterson,Nelson Lima

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This book considers all aspects of bioprospecting in 14 succinct chapters and a forward by David Hawksworth. Finally, there has never been a better time for a new book on bioprospecting, because of the need to preserve ecosystems, and from the emergence of resistant pathogenic microorganisms.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-30
Mått:155 x 235 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation
Antal sidor:303
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319838632

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Editors:Dr. Russell Paterson, University of Minho, Braga, PortugalDr. Nelson Lima, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Innehållsförteckning

Forward.- 1. Bioprospecting: An Industrial Perspective.- 2. Current Status and Perspectives in Marine Biodiscovery.- 3. Contributions of microbial resource centers to bioprospecting of bacteria and filamentous microfungi.- 4. Bioprospecting Archaea: focus on extreme halophiles.- 5. Bioprospecting soil metagenomes for antibiotics.- 6. Biotechnological applications of the Roseobacter clade.- 7. Iwokrama fungal/plant bioprospecting project 2000-2003 - a model for the future?- 8. Bioprospecting with Brazilian fungi.- 9. Secondary metabolites of mine waste acidophilic fungi.- 10. Insect bioprospecting especially in India.- 11. Phages against infectious diseases.- 12. The role of biodiversity centres in bioprospecting: a case study from Sarawak.- 13. Legal and ethnoecological components of bioprospecting.- 14. Bioprospecting insights.