Agricultural Biocatalysis Enzymes in Agriculture and Industry

Part 1: Agricultural Enzymes Market

1. Metagenomics as a Tool to Isolate New Enzymes for Application in Hydrolysis and Synthesis Reactions: The Case of Lipolytic Enzymes

Rocío Cuaspa Ropaín, Robson Carlos Alnoch, Patrícia Gruening de Mattos, Janaína Marques de Almeida, David Alexander Mitchell, and Nadia Krieger

2. Plant Pectin Methylesterase: An Insight into Agricultural and Industrial Applications

Zeba Khan, Rakesh Srivastava, Sumit K. Bag, and Praveen C. Verma

3. Induced Polyphenol Oxidases Are Associated with Laccase Activity in Different Genotypes of Resistant Chickpea Cultivars Infected by Fusarium oxysporm f. sp. ciceris and Salicylic Acid

Shivashankar Gayatridevi, Kuruba Sreeramulu, and Senigala K. Jayalakshmi

4. Classification and Evolutionary Landscape of Acid Phosphatase-Encoding Gene Families in Plants

Amir Feizi, Mohammad Ali Malboobi, Javad Zamani, Tahmineh Lohrasebi, and Shahrokh Kazempour-Osaloo

5. Acid Phosphatases Roles in Plant Performance

Mohammad Ali Malboobi, Mohammad Sadegh Sabet, Katayoun Zamani, Tahmineh Lohrasebi, Zahra Fathi, and Javad Zamani

6. Superoxide Dismuteases in Plants: New Insights into Regulation and Functioning

Ravi Prakash Sanyal, Abiraami T. V., Sabiha Perween, Satish B. Verulkar, Hari S. Misra, and Ajay Saini

7. Peroxisomes from Higher Plants and Their Metabolic Diversity

Francisco J. Corpas and José M. Palma

8. Oxygenase Enzymes for Agricultural Biotechnology Applications

Clayton T. Larue

9. P1 Leader Proteinases from the Potyviridae Family

Fabio Pasin and Hongying Shan

10. Soil Enzymes: Distribution, Interactions and Influencing Factors

Sesan Abiodun Aransiola, Femi Afolabi, Femi Joseph, and Naga Raju Maddela

11. Carbon-, Nitrogen-, Phosphorus- and Sulfur-Cycling Enzymes and Functional Diversity in Agricultural Systems

Avijit Ghosh, Ranjan Paul, Abhijit Sarkar, M. C. Manna, Sudeshna Bhattacharjya, Khurshid Alam, Sourav Choudhury, and Prithusayak Mondal

12. Bioremediation: Removal of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Soil

Zdeněk Košnář, Johanka Wernerová, Petr Frühbauer, and Pavel Tlustoš

13. Enzymatic Saccharification of Lignocellulosic Biomass

Madhavi Latha Gandla, Chaojun Tang, Carlos Martín, and Leif J. Jönsson

14. Biological Biorefineries Based on Orange Peel Wastes

Alberto García-Martín, Itziar A. Escanciano, V. Martin-Domínguez, Álvaro Lorente-Arévalo, Jorge García-Montalvo, Jesús Esteban, Juan M. Bolívar, Victoria E. Santos, and Miguel Ladero

Biography

Peter Jeschke gained his PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, after which he moved to Fahlberg-List Company, Germany, to pursue agrochemical research before moving to the Institute of Neurobiology and Brain Research, German Academy of Sciences. In 1989, he joined Bayer AG in animal health research and eight years later took a position in insecticide research, where he was a senior fellow in Research and Development, Pest Control Chemistry, Crop Science Division. Since 2011, he has been honorary professor at the Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. Prof. Jeschke is an associate editor for Pest Management Science (Society of Chemical Industry, UK) and also a member of the editorial advisory board for Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (Wiley-VCH). Retired since 2022, he has authored more than 250 patent applications and publications.

Evgeni B. Starikov is a specialist in theoretical biophysical chemistry with nearly 40 years of professional experience. Currently, he is a freelance researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Kobe University, Japan. Prof. Starikov has authored more than 100 articles and a monograph and co-edited two books. His current research interests include applications of thermodynamics.