Bioprospecting Success, Potential and Constraints

This book considers all aspects of bioprospecting in 14 succinct chapters and a forward by David Hawksworth. The organisms addressed include plants, insects, fungi, bacteria and phages. Bioprospecting has never been more relevant and is of renewed interest, because of the extremely worrying rise in...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Paterson, Russell (Editor), Lima, Nelson (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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