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Diversity and Technological Aspects of Microorganisms from Semiarid Environments

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Semiarid environments are characterized by the low water availability throughout the year. Hence, its microbial inhabitants are selected to be capable to withstand this stressful setting. This selection process acts both over the community, making it less abundant and phylogenetically diverse, and over each population by making necessary for it to express features that protect them from heat and desiccation. From a biotechnological perspective, these can be explored, and several bioproducts such as enzymes, inoculants, polysaccharides, and many others could be generated. This chapter will explore how this economic potential can be tamed and used to generate technology and improve the lives on the rural areas of such environments.

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The authors thank Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (Process n. 2013/08144-1, Process 2014/) for the financial support to their ongoing research.

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    Rodrigo Gouvêa Taketani, Vanessa Nessner Kavamura & Suikinai Nobre dos Santos

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Taketani, R.G., Kavamura, V.N., dos Santos, S.N. (2017). Diversity and Technological Aspects of Microorganisms from Semiarid Environments. In: de Azevedo, J., Quecine, M. (eds) Diversity and Benefits of Microorganisms from the Tropics . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55804-2_1

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