Microbial Diversity in Cold Environments and Their Sustainable Use
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 16508
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diversity of fungi in polar regions; mechanisms of adaptation of polar fungi to extreme environments; enzymes produced by fungi; biomaterials production using fungi; yeast taxonomy
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Dear Colleagues,
I am inviting you to consider submitting a manuscript to Sustainability for a Special Issue on “Microbial Diversity in Cold Environments and their sustainable use”.
Over 80% of the Earth biosphere is continuously exposed to temperatures below 5 °C, including in the Polar Regions, deep sea, and the Alps. Despite exposure to conditions adversely affecting their survival, such as subzero temperatures, and low nutrient and water availability, microorganisms in cold environments can grow and decompose diverse types of organic compounds at sub-zero temperatures and they, therefore, play an important role in the nutrient cycles of cold environment ecosystems. The changing microbial diversity affects material production in the environments. Therefore, it is important to understand the microbial diversity in the environments. In recent years, microorganisms inhabiting these environments have been attracting attention as microbial resources because they have characteristics such as cold-active enzymes and ice-binding protein (antifreeze proteins), material conversion abilities under low temperatures. This special issue will comprise a selection of papers presenting original and mini-review on the diversity of microorganisms inhabiting the cold environments, and the sustainable use of these microbes as microbial resources.
Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer-review process with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.
Dr. Masaharu Tsuji
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Psychrophilic and psychrotolerant fungus, bacteria and archaea Biotechnological potentialities
- Community analysis
- Antarctica
- Arctica
- Glacier
- High mountain
- Bioprospecting
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