| Applied Microbiology 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Durieux, A. (Editor), Simon, J. -P (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792368584 ISBN-13: 9780792368588 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: This book illustrates the major trends in applied microbiology research with immediate or potential applications. The diversity of the chapters allows coverage of a large field of applications, such as food and health sectors, environmental technology, and fine chemical productions. It includes specific research papers and overview papers, and attempts to provide a balanced coverage of various types of micro-organisms, particularly yeast, fungi, and bacteria. It presents results of recent researches, which have immediate application.Audience: The book is intended for research workers in microbiology, in food fermentation, and also to researchers in metabolic engineering. Furthermore, this book will be of interest to people from the academic world and the biotechnological industry. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Microbiology - Science | Applied Sciences |
| Dewey: 660.62 |
| LCCN: 2001029202 |
| Series: Focus on Biotechnology |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.28 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book illustrates the major trends in applied microbiology research with immediate or potential industrial applications. The papers proposed reflect the diversity of the application fields. New microbial developments have been done as well in the food and health sectors than in the environmental technology or in the fine chemical production. All the microbial genera are involved: yeast, fungi and bacteria. The development of biotechnology in parallel with the industrial microbiology has enabled the application of microbial diversity to our socio-economical world. The remarkable properties of microbes, inherent in their genetic and enzymatic material, allow a wide range of applications that can improve our every day life. Recent studies for elucidating the molecular basis of the physiological processes in micro-organisms are essential to improve and to control the metabolic pathways to overproduce metabolites or enzymes of industrial interest. The genetic engineering is of course one of the disciplines offering new horizons for the fantastic microbial factory . Studies of the culture parameter incidence on the physiology and the morphology are essential to control the response of the micro-organisms before its successful exploitation at the industrial scale. For this purpose, fundamental viewpoints are necessary. Development of novel approaches to characterise micro-organisms would also facilitate the understanding of the inherent metabolic diversity of the microbial world, in terms of adaptation to a wide range of biotopes and establishment of microbial consortia. |