Agricultural Biocatalysis Enzymes in Agriculture and Industry

Agricultural biocatalysis is of immense scientific interest nowadays owing to its increasing importance in the efforts for more sustainable agriculture while optimizing environmental impacts. Plant compatibility is essential for developing eco-friendly andsustainable microbial products.Therefore, our search for novel technologies ought to be in the foreground, for which athorough understanding of biochemical processes, application of agricultural enzymes, traits, and viruses get the highest priority. Volumes 8 to 10 in this series compile the recent research on agricultural biocatalysis by interdisciplinary teams from international institutes for chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, and materials and chemical engineering, who have been investigating agricultural-biocatalytic topics related to biochemical conversions or bioremediation, and modern biological and chemical applications exemplified by the use of selected and highly innovative agricultural enzymes, traits, and viruses. The editors are prominent researchers in agrochemistry and theoretical biophysical chemistry, and these three volumes are useful references for the students and researchers in the fields of agrochemistry, biochemistry, biology, biophysical chemistry, natural product chemistry, materials, and drug design. Volume 9 covers the research on plant and soil enzymes, herbicide tolerant traits, biochemical conversions, including aspects from bioremediation, plant viruses, and evaluation of the agricultural enzymes market.

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 CultivarsInfected by Fusarium oxysporm f. sp. ciceris and Salicylic Acid Shivashankar Gayatridevi, Kuruba Sreeramulu, and Senigala K. Jayalakshmi Part 2: Plant Enzymes 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 Part 3: Herbicide-Tolerant Traits 8. Oxygenase Enzymes for Agricultural Biotechnology Applications Clayton T. Larue Part 4: Plant Viruses 9. P1 Leader Proteinases from the Potyviridae Family Fabio Pasin and Hongying Shan Part 5: Soil Enzymes 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 Part 6: Bioremediation 12. Bioremediation: Removal of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Soil Zdenek Košnár, Johanka Wernerová, Petr Frühbauer, and Pavel Tlustoš Part 7: Biochemical Conversion 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

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.