Contents: Preface. Contributing authors. I. General: 1. New tools for isolation and identification of micro-organisms/Cecile Militon, Corinne Petit-Biderre and Pierre Peyret. 2. Immobilization - Microencapsulation/P. Fernandes and J.M.S. Cabral. 3. Nanobiotechnology and bioprocesses/Arup Mukherjee. II. Bioprocess optimization, design of bioreactors and downstream processing: 4. Biosensors/Beatriz Lopez-Ruiz, Marta Sanchez-Paniagua Lopez, Arturo Jose Miranda-Ordieres and Noemi Santos-Alvarez. 5. Metabolic engineering and other methods for strain improvement/Anne Ruffing and Rachel Ruizhen Chen. 6. Fermentation media: Design and properties/Jean-Bernard Gros. 7. Bioreactors: Functions in fermentation processes/Bimal Chandra Bhattacharya, Soumitra Banerjee and Tapan Kumar Ghosh. 8. Statistical design for the optimization of fermentation processes/Christophe Vial. 9. Downstream processing of biologicals: A strategic approach/Tapati Bhanja, Mithu Das and Rintu Banerjee. III. Industrial products and bioprocesses: 10. Industrial enzymes/Parameswaran Binod, Reeta Rani Singhania, Carlos Ricardo Soccol and Ashok Pandey. 11. Fermented beverages: The examples of winemaking/Jean-Marie Sablayrolles. 12. Production of organic acids: Citric, Gluconic and Lactic acids/Hwa-Won Ryu, Young-Jung Wee, Jin-Nam Kim and L.V.A. Reddy. 13. Production of vaccines and antibodies/Lopa Adhikary, Subhra R. Chakrabarti and Raman Rao. 14. Production of Amino Acids : L-lysine and Glutamic Acid/Maria A. Longo and Ma Angeles Sanroman. 15. Production of fermented dairy products/Maria Kanellaki, Loulouda A. Bosnea and Athanasios A. Koutinas. 16. Production of Mushrooms/Leifa Fan, Carlos Ricardo Soccol, Ashok Pandey and Huijuan Pan. 17. Production of bioflavours/Tom Desmet, An Cerdobbel, Wim Soetaert and Erick Vandamme. 18. Production of bacterial and fungal polysaccharides/Cedric Delattre, Celine Laroche and Philippe Michaud. 19. Production of biofertilizers/Mani N. Jha and Kumari Sonia. 20. Solid-state fermentation/Jose A. Rodriguez Leon, Carlos R. Soccol, Reeta Rani Singhania, Ashok Pandey, Wilerson Sturm, Luiz Alberto Junior Letti, Luciana P.S. Vandenberghe and Daniel E. Rodriguez Fernandez. 21. Biotransformations/Licia M. Pera, Mario D. Baigori and Guillermo R. Castro. 22. Bioremediation/Valentina Umrania, Cedric Vachelard and Christian Larroche. 23. Aerobic environmental processes/Veeriah Jegatheesan, Li Shu, Chettiyappan Visvanathan and Bui Xuan Thanh. 24. Anaerobic environmental processes/Dilip Ramchandra Ranade, Kalluri Krishna Meher, Devyani Vijay Savant and Ashok Dattatraya Patwardhan. Index.
"The aim of the book is to provide an in-depth study of the principles of fermentation technology and recent advances and developments in the field of fermentation technology, focusing on industrial applications. The entire presentation has been divided in three section comprising 24 chapters from the eminent experts from all over the world. The text is supported by numerous clear, informative diagrams. The book would be of great interest to the students and researchers of applied biology, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemical and chemical engineering."
