Main description:

Microbial processes are involved in food, chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, energy, and new-material industries. Over the past 2 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. Microbial Bioprocesses 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. Microbial Bioprocesses covers the unique areas like microbial volatiles (MVOCs), microbial bioinoculant development, bacterial nanocelluloses production, and processes for remediation by fungi and actinobacteria.

Contents:

Preface Pratyoosh Shukla

Foreword Jo-Shu Chang

1. Applications of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Agriculture and Forestry Wentao Hu and Pan Lan

2. Microbial volatiles as new players for sustainable agriculture Swati Tyagi, Robin Kumar and Kui Jae Lee

3. Technological interventions in microbial biofuel: innovative technologies and current perspectives Meenal Rastogi, Monika Prakash Rai and Smriti Shrivastava

4. Algal genomics tools: technological updates and progress Niwas Kumar, Srabani Kar, Amit Srivastava, Chiranjib Banerjee II and Pratyoosh Shukla

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 Lebogang Ramatsui, Tariro Sithole, Nosabatha Mzimkulu, Samkelo Malgas and Brett Ivan Pletschke

6. Bioinoculants development for Sustainable Agriculture by innovative optimization processes: a future roadmap to commercialization Pratyoosh Shukla and Twinkle Chaudhary

7. Algal Biofuels: current perspectives and technological progress Shefali Gupta and Saroj Ahirwar

8. Recent approaches and innovations for enzyme engineering used in industrial biotechnology Charu Tripathi

9. Agronomic Biofortification through Nano-Fertilizers: Technological Updates and Progress Sarika Chaturvedi

10. Understanding virus-bacteria-human tripartite interactions: strategies and challenges Asha Yadav, Pratik Shinde, Shruti Ahlawat and Krishna Kant Sharma

11. Microbial Bioprocesses in Remediation of Contaminated Environments and Resource Recovery Charu Dogra Rawat, Sonika Phian, Renu Gupta, Helianthous Verma, Mohit Kumar, Jasleen Kaur and Varunendra Rawat

12. Microalgal based Bioremediation of emerging contaminates in wastewater: A sustainable approach Abhijeet William Smith, Ramendra Soni, Arun Kumar Pal, Pooja Tripathi, Jonathan A. Lal and Vijay Tripathi

13. Bioresources, environmental aspects and patent scenario for bio-bleaching in pulp and paper Industry Guddu Gupta, Gaurav Pathak, Pratyoosh Shukla and Rajeev Kumar Kapoor

14. Microbial enzyme bioprocesses in bio-bleaching of pulp and paper: technological updates Naveen Kango and Pratyoosh Shukla