Preface
BASICS OF MICROBIAL GENETICS
An Introduction to Microbial Genetics
Sylwia Okoń, Beata Zimowska and Mahendra Rai
Genetic Organization of Microbial Genomes
Sylwia Okoń
Basic Principles of Microbial Replication, Transcription and Translation
Aleksandra Nucia
Variability and Diversity in the Microbial Genomes
Sylwia Okoń
Metagenomics: A Road to Novel Microbial Genes and Genomes
Tomasz Ociepa
Genome Sequencing as a Tool for Understanding Microorganisms
Tomasz Ociepa
Mobile Genetic Elements and the Evolution of Microbes
Sarah Alharbi, Esraa Aldawood, Norashirene Mohamad Jamil, Fatimah AlShehri, Mohamed Lotfy Ashour and Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Elfaky
MOLECULAR BASIS OF VIRUSES AND PHYTOPLASMA
Molecular Basis of Genetic Variation in Viruses Present in Soil
Anna Marzec-Grządziel and Jarosław Ciepiel
How Do Phytoplasmas Manipulate Host Plants’ Molecular Mechanisms?
Beata Zimowska
BACTERIAL GENETICS
Genetic Methods of Identification, Classification, and Differentiation of Bacteria
Agata Janczarek and Anna Gałązka
The Secretome Landscape of Ralstonia
Juan Carlos Ariute Oliveira, Lucas Gabriel Rodrigues Gomes, Arun Kumar Jaiswal, Sandeep Tiwari, Vasco Azevedo, Ana Maria Benko-Iseppon, and Flávia Figueira Aburjaile
Use of Salmonella Typhimurium as Tester Strains (Salmonella/Microsome) for Evaluating Mutagenicity of Compounds
Débora Antunes Neto Moreno, Natália Tribuiani, Edson Hideaki Yoshida, Jocimar de Souza, Ederson Constantino, Carolina Alves dos Santos, Marco Vinicius Chaud, Eduardo Matheus Ricciardi Suzuki, Bruno Cabral de Oliveira, Hellen Cristine Boschilha Lastra, Marcela Pelegrini Peçanha, Flavia Aparecida Resende Nogueira, José Carlos Cogo, Silvio Roberto Consonni, Mahendra Rai and Yoko Oshima-Franco
FUNGAL AND PROTOZOAN GENETICS
Fungal Genetics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics
Monika Bielecka
Practical Aspects of Sequence-Based Species Delimitation in Fungi
Andrea Becchimanzi
Pathogenesis and Virulence of Phakopsora pachyrhizi: An Insight into the Genetic and Molecular Features
Md. Motaher Hossain
Genetics of Trichoderma-plant-pathogen Interactions
Md. Motaher Hossain and Farjana Sultana
Diversity and Mechanisms of Fungal–Mineral Interaction Through Molecular and Omics Studies
Shaifali Sharma, Jaya Sharma, Aditi Sharma, Nidhi Tripathi and Rohit Sharma
Application of CRISPR/Cas Technology in Plant Pathogenic Oomycetes
Fatemeh Salmaninezhad, Reza Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa and Giles E. St. J. Hardy
Genetics of Oomycetes: A Gate for Systematic and Ecological Studies
Hossein Masigol, Reza Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa and Giles E. St. J. Hardy
Molecular-Genetic Approaches to Protozoa and Their Pathogenicities
Gleice Ribeiro Orasmo and Mariluce Gonçalves Fonseca
Index
About the Editors
Biography
Dr. hab. Sylwia Okoń is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Genetics, Breeding and Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Agrobioengineering at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin. She has twelve years of teaching and fifteen years of research experience. Her main research interests focus on the interactions between the host plant and the pathogen and increasing plant resistance to fungal pathogens. She is also involved in research in the field of genetic differentiation of fungal pathogens causing plant diseases, and their identification and classification. She conducts research related to phylogenetic and taxonomic analyses. She cooperates with University of Sydney (Australia), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USA), Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (Germany), Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) (Germany). Dr. hab. Sylwia Okoń is the co-author of more than 60 scientific papers, she participated in numerous scientific conferences.
Dr. Beata Zimowska is Associate Professor at Department of Plant Pathology, Subdepartment Phytopathology and Mycology, Faculty of Horticulture and Land Scape, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland. She has published more than 70 research publications, 30 popular articles in Polish and foreign. She is a member of several scientific societies. She has been awarded several awards: grade I team from HM Rector the Academy of Agriculture in Lublin – 2000, grade II team from HM Rector the University of Life Sciences in Lublin – 2009, individual grade I from HM Rector the University of Life Sciences for scientific activity in the years 2010–2012–2014, individual grade II from HM Rector the University of Life Sciences for scientific activity in the years 2014–2016–2017. She was co-organizer and member of Scientific Board 1st Eurasian Mycological Congress 3–5.07.2016, Manisa, Turkey and XIII Congress of Ecology and Environment with International Participation 12–15.09.2017, Edirne, Turkey. She serves as a referee for 15 international journals and is a member of the editorial board of 2 national and international journals. Since 2014 she has been cooperating with Bulgarian Institute of Genetics in Sofia, since 2015 with Department of Agriculture, University of Naples Federico II, Portici and Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP)/National Research Council (CNR) Portici, Italy, since 2015 with Department of Biology Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey. Her research activities are aimed at: Phoma sensu lato group of fungi, endophytic fungi, fungal symbiont and their relationships with gall midges, mutualistic interactions between the gall causing species of dipterans from Asphondylia genus (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and on fungi developing in the inner wall of galls, etiology and epidemiology of infectious diseases of MAPs (medicinal and aromatic plants), with special regards of new and emerging infectious diseases (EIDs).
Dr. Mahendra Rai is presently a visiting Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. Formerly he was Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology, SGB Amravati University, Maharashtra State, India. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Geneva, Debrecen University, Hungary; University of Campinas, Brazil; VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, National University of Rosario, Argentina, and the University of Sao Paulo. He has published more than 425 research papers in national and international journals, with 81 h-index. In addition, he has edited/authored more than 70 books and 6 patents. Recently, he has been featured in Stanford’s list of the top 2% of scientists in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
