Potential Application of Microbial Resources in North East India: Future Prospects and Challenges

The North-eastern region in India is one of the most important biodiversity hot spots
of the world. The microbial resources of this area have tremendous potentiality for
sustainable human development and livelihood management though the
conventional microbiological approaches of isolating and identifying microbes of
this area have been consolidated with little advent of molecular biotechnology
and bioinformatics. Therefore, the present review has been designed to discuss
the immense potentiality of these economically important microbial resources of
North-East India along with their significance in international level. Molecular
phylogenetic analysis and development of appropriate macromolecular markers
are considered as important key in this approach regarding maximum exploration
of this microbial gene pool. The present paper also focuses on the application of
bioinformatics as an important tool in microbial research, particularly, in the
prediction of 3D structure and analysis of sequence variation of important
microbial proteins for probable characterization of functional and evolutionary
properties of these significant natural resources.