This book explores the significance of soil microbial diversity to understand its utility in
soil functions ecosystem services environmental sustainability and achieving the sustainable
development goals. With a focus on agriculture and environment the book highlights the
importance of the microbial world by providing state-of-the-art technologies for examining the
structural and functional attributes of soil microbial diversity for applications in healthcare
industrial biotechnology and bioremediation studies. In seven chapters the book will act as a
primer for students environmental biotechnologists microbial ecologists plant scientists
and agricultural microbiologists. Chapter 1 introduces readers to the soil microbiome and
chapter 2 discusses the below ground microbial world. Chapter 3 addresses various methods for
exploring microbial diversity chapter 4 discusses the genomics methods chapter 5 provides the
metaproteomics and metatranscriptomics approaches and chapter 6 details the bioinformatics
tools for soil microbial community analysis and chapter 7 concludes the text with future
perspectives on further soil microbial uses and applications.
