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Microbial Management of Organic Waste in Agroecosystem

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Organic waste materials occur universally as surplus agricultural waste, municipal solid waste, industrial waste and poultry waste. Microbial management of organic waste is a promising, environment-friendly approach to manage the large quantities of organic waste due to its recycling potential. Composting is a biotechnological process by which different microbial communities play a key role in biotransformation of complex organic substrates into useful decomposed residues. In this biological oxidative decomposition process, different types of diverse compost microbiota are involved. Due to the synergistic activities and functional diversity of microbiota, relatively low-cost, stable biomass, humus products are produced. Microbial compost materials are used as bioorganic manures to increase soil fertility that facilitates sustainable agriculture. In this chapter, we describe the history and science of composting, types of organic waste, microbial parameters, different types of composting, diversity and function of composting microbiota, mechanism of decomposition, microbiological methods for the analysis of compost maturity and socio-economic significance of microbial management of organic waste.

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Patchaye, M., Sundarkrishnan, B., Tamilselvan, S., Sakthivel, N. (2018). Microbial Management of Organic Waste in Agroecosystem. In: Panpatte, D., Jhala, Y., Shelat, H., Vyas, R. (eds) Microorganisms for Green Revolution. Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7146-1_3

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