Bioprospecting : Success, Potential and Constraints /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Paterson, Russell. (Editor), Lima, Nelson. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, 16
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.