Microbial Bioprocesses: Applications and Perspectives aims to give an overview of established and successful processes and discusses the trends and perspectives in industrial microbiology which, along with tremendous progress in genetic and metabolic engineering in recent years, are once again becoming an area of innovation and emerging technologies. The book covers unique areas of biotechnology, such as microbial volatiles (MVOCs), microbial bioinoculant development, bacterial nanocelluloses production, and processes for remediation by fungi and actinobacteria. As microbial processes are involved in food, chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, energy and new-material industries, this book highlights important aspects of industrial microbiology.
Over the past two decades, new or more efficient industrial processes involving microorganisms have been launched, yielding purer, less expensive products or substances not available using classical chemical methods.
- Provides an innovative description of emerging bioprocesses for biotechnological gains
- Presents a broad cross section of microbial bioprocess that covers several sustainability applications
- Gives general insights about how microorganisms can be utilized in production of various chemicals
1. Applications of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Agriculture and Forestry
2. Microbial volatiles as new players for sustainable agriculture
3. Technological interventions in microbial biofuel: innovative technologies and current perspectives
4. Algal genomics tools: technological updates and progress
5. The use of xylanases as additives to feeds: a mini-review of their effect on feed intake, digestion and growth performance in monogastric animals
6. Bioinoculants development for Sustainable Agriculture by innovative optimization processes: a future roadmap to commercialization
7. Algal Biofuels: current perspectives and technological progress
8. Recent approaches and innovations for enzyme engineering used in industrial biotechnology
9. Agronomic Biofortification through Nano-Fertilizers: Technological Updates and Progress
10. Understanding virus-bacteria-human tripartite interactions: strategies and challenges
11. Microbial Bioprocesses in Remediation of Contaminated Environments and Resource Recovery
12. Microalgal based Bioremediation of emerging contaminates in wastewater: A sustainable approach
13. Bioresources, environmental aspects and patent scenario for bio-bleaching in pulp and paper Industry
14. Microbial enzyme bioprocesses in bio-bleaching of pulp and paper: technological updates
Pratyoosh Shukla is presently working as Professor and Coordinator at School of Biotechnology, and Centre for Bioinformatics at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He was awarded with Indo-USA Research Professor at University of Cincinnati, USA. His research areas include enzyme technology and protein bioinformatics and its technological interventions in interdisciplinary Biotechnology.
