This book provides essential molecular techniques and protocols for analyzing microbes that are useful for developing novel bio-chemicals, such as medicines, biofuels, and plant protection substances.

Introduction to Modern Tools and Techniques to Understand Microbes.- Novel Approaches to Identify and Characterise Microorganisms in Food Industry.- Strategies of Mass Cultivation of Sebacinales.- Biophysical Phenotyping as an Essential Tool for Understanding Host-Microbe Interaction.- Targeted Gene Disruption Tools for Fungal Genomics.- Polyphasic Approaches to Characterize Mushroom species.- Function-based Metagenomics to Reveal Rhizosphere Microbiome: A Glimpse.- Biological Indicators for Soil Health: Potential for Development and Use of On-Farm Tests.- Mycotoxin Biosynthetic Pathways: A Window on the Evolutionary Relationships Among Toxigenic Fungi.- How to Disentangle Changes in Microbial Function from Changes in Microbial Community.- Legume-Rhizobium Symbioses: Significance for Sustainable Plant Production.- Tools and Techniques to Study Multidrug Transporters of Yeast.- Approaches for Determining Antimicrobial Drug-Resistant Bacteria: The Way Ahead.- Continuous Elution Electrophoresis as a Unique Tool for Microbial Protein Analysis.- Detection and Characterization of Endobacteria in the Fungal Endophyte Piriformospora indica.- Metabolomic Mediated Characterization of Endophytic spp. in Recalcitrant Tree Species.- Analytical Techniques to Assess Medicinal Plants Value Addition after Microbial Associations.- Omics: Tools for Assessing Environmental Microbial Diversity and Composition.- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Evolution and Functions in Alleviating Plant Drought Stress.- Engineered Nanostructured Materials for Antimicrobial and Photocatalytic Applications.- Cryopreservation of Microorganisms.- Microbial Cultures: Maintenance, Preservation and Registration.- Biosurfactants in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery.- Fed-batch Cultivation for High Density Culture of Pseudomonas Spp. for Bioinoculant Preparation.- Protocol for Biocontrol of Soybean Cyst Nematode with Root Endophytic Fungi.- Spectrophotometric Assays to Evaluate the RhizosphericMicrobes Mediated Drought Tolerance in Plants.- Subject Index.