Endospore-forming Soil Bacteria

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Developments in the Taxonomy of Aerobic, Endospore-forming Bacteria

   • Niall A. Logan, Gillian Halket

   Pages 1-29

3. Diversity of Endospore-forming Bacteria in Soil: Characterization and Driving Mechanisms

   • Ines Mandic-Mulec, James I. Prosser

   Pages 31-59

4. Studying the Bacterial Diversity of the Soil by Culture-Independent Approaches

   • Paul De Vos

   Pages 61-72

5. Exploring Diversity of Cultivable Aerobic Endospore-forming Bacteria: From Pasteurization to Procedures Without Heat-Shock Selection

   • O. Berge, P. Mavingui, T. Heulin

   Pages 73-88

6. Life Cycle and Gene Exchange

   • Xiaomin Hu, Jacques Mahillon

   Pages 89-113

7. Studying the Life Cycle of Aerobic Endospore-forming Bacteria in Soil

   • Volker S. Brözel, Yun Luo, Sebastien Vilain

   Pages 115-133

8. Dispersal of Aerobic Endospore-forming Bacteria from Soil and Agricultural Activities to Food and Feed

   • Marc Heyndrickx

   Pages 135-156

9. Biological Control of Phytopathogenic Fungi by Aerobic Endospore-Formers

   • Alejandro Pérez-García, Diego Romero, Houda Zeriouh, Antonio de Vicente

   Pages 157-180

10. Pasteuria penetrans and Its Parasitic Interaction with Plant Parasitic Nematodes

    • Alistair H. Bishop

    Pages 181-201

11. Aerobic Endospore-forming Bacteria and Soil Invertebrates

    • Helmut König

    Pages 203-213

12. Bacillus thuringiensis Diversity in Soil and Phylloplane

    • Michio Ohba

    Pages 215-233

13. Brevibacillus, Arbuscular Mycorrhizae and Remediation of Metal Toxicity in Agricultural Soils

    • Juan Manuel Ruiz-Lozano, Rosario Azcón

    Pages 235-258

14. Geobacillus Activities in Soil and Oil Contamination Remediation

    • Ibrahim M. Banat, Roger Marchant

    Pages 259-270

15. Studying Denitrification by Aerobic Endospore-forming Bacteria in Soil

    • Ines Verbaendert, Paul De Vos

    Pages 271-285

16. Paenibacillus, Nitrogen Fixation and Soil Fertility

    • Lucy Seldin

    Pages 287-307

17. Halophilic and Haloalkaliphilic, Aerobic Endospore-forming Bacteria in Soil

    • M. Carmen Márquez, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, Antonio Ventosa

    Pages 309-339

18. Back Matter

    Pages 341-347

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Aerobic endospore-forming bacteria are found in soils of all kinds, ranging from acid to alkaline, hot to cold, and fertile to desert. It is well known that endospores confer special properties upon their owners and play dominant parts in their life cycles and dispersal, and much has been written about the spores, genetics, and economic importance of these organisms. Much has also been written about soil ecology, but there is a relative dearth of literature that brings together different aspects of the behaviour and characters of endospore-formers with their contributions to soil ecosystems. This Soil Biology volume fills that gap. Following chapters that describe the current classification of these organisms, that review methods for their detection and for studying their life cycles in soils, and that examine their dispersal, other chapters show that they are active and dynamic members of soil floras that interact widely with other soil inhabitants, with roles in nitrogen fixation, denitrification, and soil remediation.

• Bacterial spores
• Halophiles
• Nitrogen cycle
• Phytopathogens
• Saprophytes
• Soil bioremediation
• Soil microbiota
• Thermophiles

• Dept. Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Niall A. Logan

• Lab. Microbiology, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium

  Paul Vos

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