Ajay Kumar
Joginder Singh
Jastin Samuel

A rising global population puts extra pressure on agriculture production and farmers due to limited land resources, low soil productivity, regular and extra use of chemical pesticides, and increased attacks from pests and pathogens due to changing climatic conditions. Global population increases and climate change are the major concerns for environmentalists, agronomists, researchers, and policymakers. There is an urgent need to explore new and advanced biological methods for sustainable agriculture and health industries to protect the environment from environmental pollution or contaminants, global warming and control the health of human beings from the side effects of various pharmaceutical products. While focusing on all the aforementioned factors, this book explores new and valuable aspects of microorganisms in terms of volatiles, enzymes, bioactive compounds synthesized from them, and their potential applications in the field of sustainable agriculture and health-related issues. In agriculture, various microbial volatile organic compounds are now being used to facilitate crop performance and production by acting as biocontrol agents to inhibit the growth and development of numerous plant pathogens and elicit induced systemic resistance in the plants or mitigating effects caused by stress factors. However, these volatile organic compounds are broadly utilized to synthesize antibiotics, bioactive compounds, etc. The ultimate goal is to support the scientific community, professionals, and enterprises that aspire to understand the latest developments and advancements about exploiting these volatile organic compounds, including their application, traditional uses, modern practices, and designing strategies to harness their potential. In this book, we compiled the latest research and advancement of volatiles, metabolites synthesized from microbial strains such as actinomycetes, bacteria, cyanobacteria, fungal species, and their potential applications in the field of sustainable agriculture and healthcare issues.

The purpose of editing Volatiles and Metabolites of Microbes is to present details of various systems approaches and provide a means to share the latest developments and advancements about the volatiles and metabolites of microbes, and their spectrum of applications, with academicians, industrialists and policymakers as well. With 21 chapters contributed by an exclusive group of researchers working at the forefront of microbiology, biotechnology, natural products, and development practices, the book covers advanced perspectives, latest research, and advancements in the field of volatiles, secondary metabolites, and bioactive compounds synthesized from the different microbial strains and their diverse potential applications. This book serves as a helpful reference book for academics, scientists, members of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries, plant pathologists, professionals, and strategy developers working in the environmental microbiology and food-beverage industries.