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Quorum Sensing and its Biotechnological Applications

  • Provides up-to-date applications of the quorum sensing process
  • Describes difficult concept through a lucid language and by using figures and flowcharts
  • Highlights the use of quorum sensing to address a very pressing need of environmental pollution control and developing green fuel

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Quorum Sensing and Its Inhibition: Biotechnological Applications

      • Vipin Chandra Kalia, Jyotsana Prakash, Shikha Koul, Subhasree Ray
      Pages 3-16
    3. Talking Through Chemical Languages: Quorum Sensing and Bacterial Communication

      • Mohini Mohan Konai, Geetika Dhanda, Jayanta Haldar
      Pages 17-42
    4. Fundamentals of Bacterial Biofilm: Present State of Art

      • Soumya Pandit, Shruti Sarode, Kuppam Chandrasekhar
      Pages 43-60
    5. Application of Microbial Quorum Sensing Systems for Bioremediation of Wastewaters

      • Vipin Chandra Kalia, Jyotsana Prakash, Subhasree Ray, Shikha Koul
      Pages 87-97
    6. Strategies Behind Biosensors for Food and Waterborne Pathogens

      • Bhaskar Das, P. Balasubramanian, R. Jayabalan, N. Lekshmi, Sabu Thomas
      Pages 107-141
  3. Energy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
    2. Application of Quorum Sensing Systems in Production of Green Fuels

      • Jyotsana Prakash, Vipin Chandra Kalia
      Pages 155-166
    3. Applications of Quorum Sensing in Microbial Fuel Cell

      • Deepika Jothinathan, Nasrin Fathima AH, Pachaiappan Raman
      Pages 167-177
  4. Agriculture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. Pseudomonas: A Quorum Sensing System for Improved Crop Production

      • Bhagwan Rekadwad, Pallab Kumar Ghosh
      Pages 181-191
    3. Significance and Application of Quorum Sensing in Food Microbiology

      • Venkadesaperumal Gopu, Sivasankar Chandran, Prathapkumar Halady Shetty
      Pages 193-219

About this book

This book delves into the biotechnological applications of Quorum sensing (QS)- a peculiar gene-regulatory process of some microorganisms. Quorum Sensing allows a large bacterial population to work together in a coordinated manner to carry out metabolic activities, which individual bacterium cannot. The different chapters describe how, associating bioremediation process with energy generation is an economical proposal, for reducing pollution and managing biowastes. 


The book discusses how QS can be exploited for biotechnological applications in generating bioproducts, bioenergy, bioremediation, biosensors, health and agricultural activities. It further highlights how QS is becoming an integral part of synthetic biology for genetic circuits for producing: (i) novel products, (ii) biosensors, (iii) bioactive molecules, etc. The book is divided into different sections for a clear understanding of the applicability of QS in, the Environment, Energy,Agriculture and Health sectors.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Vipin Chandra Kalia

About the editor

Dr. Vipin Chandra Kalia is a Professor at the Molecular Biotechnology Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea. He has been an emeritus scientist and ex-chief scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Genetics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.

He was elected as fellow of the Association of Microbiologists of India (FAMI), the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), and the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS).

His main areas of research are microbial biodiversity, genomics and evolution, bioenergy, biopolymers, antimicrobials, quorum sensing, and quorum quenching. He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals such as (1) Nature Biotechnology, (2) Biotechnology Advances, (3) Trends in Biotechnology, (4) Critical Reviews in Microbiology, (5) Bioresource Technology, (6) the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, (7) PLoS ONE, (8) BMC Genomics, (9) Gene, and (10) the Annual Review of Microbiology. He has an h index of 32 and an i10 index of 71. He has edited 3 books: Quorum sensing versus quorum quenching: A battle with no end in sight (2015, Springer India), and Microbial Factories Vol 1 and 2 (2015).

He is currently the editor-in- chief of the Indian Journal of Microbiology and editor of (1) PLoS ONE, (2) the Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology (Korea), (3) Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology (USA), (4) International Scholarly Research Notices (Energy), (5) Dataset Papers in Science (Microbiology), and (6) the Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine.

 He is a life member of the following scientific societies: (1) the Society of Biological Chemists of India (2) the Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, India; (3) the Association of Microbiologists of India; (4) the Indian Science Congress Association; (5) the BioEnergy Society of India, and (6) the Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI). He is also a member of the American Society for Microbiology.​


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