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.
Brief description: 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.