Overview
- Describes the benefits and applications of this microbial products
- With contributions by international experts
- Of interest for microbiologist, biochemists, plant and environmental scientists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Microbial Phenazines: Biosynthesis, Agriculture and Health focuses on phenazines, a group of upwards of a hundred nitrogen-containing redox-active heterocyclic compounds of bacterial origin that have long attracted scientific interest because of their colorful pigmentation. Our understanding of these fascinating natural products and their role in human health and the environment has advanced rapidly in recent years, but we are only now beginning to be able to exploit the potential of these compounds in such fields as agriculture and medicine. This volume includes information on the biochemistry and genetics of phenazine synthesis, the physiological effects of phenazines, and methods for the isolation and identification of phenazines with the aid of spectroscopic and electrophoretic techniques. Also included are chapters focused on the roots of phenazine research in the biological control of plant pathogens and recent knowledge of the diversity of phenazine-producing microorganisms and the environments in which they occur. A final chapter addresses the potential of phenazines in the treatment of cancer.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microbial Phenazines
Book Subtitle: Biosynthesis, Agriculture and Health
Editors: Sudhir Chincholkar, Linda Thomashow
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40573-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40572-3Published: 19 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51092-6Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40573-0Published: 05 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 109 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Biochemistry, general, Plant Pathology, Pharmacology/Toxicology