Food wastage and its accumulation are becoming a critical problem around the globe due to
continuous increase of the world population. The exponential growth in food waste is …

The composting is an aerobic, microorganism-mediated, solid-state fermentation process by
which different organic materials are transformed into more stable compounds. The product …

Maintenance of soil health is central to agricultural sustainability and a key factor that reflects
the productivity of agro ecosystems. However, at present the soil resources are under severe …

Phosphorus (P) is an essential and limiting nutrient in soil and is tightly linked to soil fertility
and productivity. Microorganisms have developed different mechanisms to respond to P …

It is envisaged that the utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for ethanol production for
transport sector, would make cellulases the most demanded industrial enzyme. The greatest …

Increasing evidence has emerged for non-random spatial distributions of microbes, but
knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among …

A significant proportion of the Earth's surface is desert or in the process of desertification.
The extreme environmental conditions that characterize these areas result in a surface that …

Multispecies solid-state fermentation (MSSF), a natural fermentation process driven by
reproducible microbiota, is an important technique to produce traditional fermented foods …

Many microorganisms contain cellulases that are important for plant cell wall degradation
and overall soil ecosystem functioning. At present, we have extensive biochemical …

With high-throughput sequencing (HTS), we are able to explore the hidden world of
microscopic organisms to an unpre-cedented level. The fast development of molecular …