High Value Fermentation Products, Volume 1

Preface

A century after the pioneering work of Louis Pasteur, the science of microbiology has reached to its zenith. In a short span of time, modern biotechnology has grown up drastically from a laboratory scale to a commercial level. Advances in Fermentation Technology have created a favorable niche for the development of fermentation based products to facilitate their applications and to provide a sustainable environment for mankind and to improve the quality of human life. The modern day biotechnology offers many opportunities and effective techniques to address the human concerns in the areas of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, polymers, textiles, aquaculture, forestry, chemicals, household products, environmental cleanup, food processing, feed and forensics etc.

The book entitled “High Value Fermentation Products” has been divided in different volumes namely, Human Health and Human Welfare. The Volume 1 of the book has 18 chapters focussed on basics to fermentation technology, antibiotics & immunosuppressants, antibodies, peptides & proteins, sugars & sugar alcohols and metabolic engineering derived products. The fist chapter entitled ‘Introduction, scope and significance of fermentation technology’ aims to provide the insights on the basics of fermentation technology to the readers. The second chapter on ‘Extraction of bioactive molecules through fermentation and enzymatic assisted technologies’ elaborates the techniques involved in isolation of bioactive molecules and other ...