Nanobiotechnology Applications in Plant Protection

Preface.- 1. Processing of Nanoparticles by Biomatrices in a Green Approach.- 2. Green Synthesis/ Biogenic Materials, Characterization and Their Applications.- 3. Biological Synthesis of Nanoparticles by Different Groups of Bacteria.- 4. Mushrooms: New Biofactories for Nanomaterials Production of Different Industrial and Medical Applications.- 5. Actinomycetes: It's realm in Nanotechnology.- 6. Impact of nanomaterials in Microbial system.- 7. Microbial Production of Nanoparticles: Mechanisms and Applications.- 8. Microbial Nanobionic Engineering: Translational and Transgressive Science of an Antidisciplinary Approximation.- 9. Microbial Nanobionics: Application of Nanobiosensors in Microbial Growth and Diagnostics.- 10. Cancer Bionanotechnology: Biogenic Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles and their Pharmaceutical Potency.- 11. Antimicrobial Nanocomposites for Improving Indoor Air Quality.- 12. Microbial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers and Functional Nano Hybrids.- 13. Nanomaterials inMicrobial Fuel cells and Related Applications.- Index.

Kamel Abd-Elsalam, Ph.D. is a head researcher at Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Kamel's research interests include developing, improving and deploying plant biosecurity diagnostic tools; understanding and exploiting fungal pathogen genomes; and developing eco-friendly hybrid nanomaterials for controlling toxicogenic fungi and plant diseases. He has edited or authored books and published 8 book chapters, 6 review articles, a translated book and more than 120 research articles in international peer reviewed journals including Fungal Diversity, Fungal Biology, FEMS Review Microbiology, PLOS One and PLOS Genetics. He is associate editor for Mycosphere, and review editor for Frontiers in Genomic Assay Technology and referees for journals, including the Plant Pathology, Journal of Phytopathology, Crop Protection, IET Nanotechnology, Fungal Diversity, BMC Genomic and, Foodborne Pathogens and Diseases. Dr. Kamel has also served as molecular mycologist for 5 years in the Department Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He received the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils Prize for distinguished scientific research in biotechnology (fungal genomics) during 2014 (first ranking). Dr. Kamel pursued his Ph.D. in Molecular Plant Pathology from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel (Germany) and Suez Canal University (Egypt). He did a postdoctoral fellowship from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel in 2008. Dr. Kamel served as visiting associate professor in Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand; Institute of Microbiology, TUM, Germany, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; and Plant Protection Department, Sassari University, Italy. 

Ram Prasad, Ph.D. is assistant professor at the Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh,India. His research interests