"Environmental Biotechnology: New Approaches and Prospective Applications" ed. by Marian Petre

This book provides useful information regarding New Approaches and Prospective Applications in Environmental Biotechnology. This volume contains chapters divided themes: biotechnology for conversion of organic wastes, biodegradation of hazardous contaminants and, finally, biotechnological procedures for environmental protection.

The book is addressed to researchers and students with specialties in biotechnology, bioengineering, ecotoxicology, environmental engineering and all those readers who are interested to improve their knowledge in order to keep the Earth healthy.
Each chapter provides detailed information regarding scientific experiments that were carried out in different parts of the world to test different procedures and methods designed to remove or mitigate the impact of hazardous pollutants on environment.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Biotechnology for Conversion of Organic Wastes
1 Environmental Biotechnology for Bioconversion of Agricultural and Forestry Wastes into Nutritive Biomass
2 Comparison of the Performance of the Laccase Bioconversion of Sodium Lignosulfonates in Batch, Continuous and Fed Batch Reactors
3 Biochemical Processes for Generating Fuels and Commodity Chemicals from Lignocellulosic Biomass
4 Synergistic Effects of Pretreatment Process on Enzymatic Digestion of Rice Straw for Efficient Ethanol Fermentation
Section 2 Biodegradation of Hazardous Contaminants
5 Microbial Degradation of Persistent Organophosphorus Flame Retardants
6 Continuous Biotechnological Treatment of Cyanide Contaminated Waters by Using a Cyanide Resistant Species of Aspergillus awamori
7 Biodegradation of Cyanobacterial Toxins
8 Bioavailability of High Molecular Weight Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Renewable Resources
Section 3 Biotechnological Procedures for Environmental Protection
9 Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production from Carbon Dioxide by Recombinant Cyanobacteria
10 The Extracellular Indolic Compounds of Lentinus edodes
11 Role of Biotechnology for Protection of Endangered Medicinal Plants
12 The Use of Interactions in Dual Cultures in vitro to Evaluate the Pathogenicity of Fungi and Susceptibility of Host Plant Genotypes