Biotechnology of Microorganisms Diversity, Improvement, and Application of Microbes for Food Processing, Healthcare, Environmental Safety, and Agriculture

Comparative studies on cfu determination by pure and/or mixed culture cultivations / Subir Kumar Nandy -- Cultivation strategies with special reference to bioreactor design and operation for industrial production in biotechnology / Anupreet Kaur and Jaspreet Kaur -- Diversity and application of acetic acid bacteria in asia / Somboon Tanasupawat, Taweesak Malimas, Nittaya Pitiwittayakul, Huong Thi Lan Vu, Pattaraporn Yukphan, and Yuzo Yamada -- Secondary metabolites and biological activity of actinomycetes / Khomsan Supong and Somboon Tanasupawat -- Serratiopeptidase : a multifaceted microbial enzyme in health care / Subathra Devi Chandrasekaran, Jemimah Naine Selvakumar, and Mohanasrinivasan Vaithilingam -- Production of bacteriorhodopsin, an industrially important membrane protein of halophilic archaea : a biotechnological challenge / Pradnya Pralhad Kanekar, Snehal Omkar Kulkarni, and Sagar Pralhad Kanekar -- Properties and biotechnological applications of ss-glucuronidases / Nasser El-Din Ibrahim, Weilan Shao, and Kesen Ma -- Microbial collagenases: an overview of their production and applications / Jyotsna Jotshi and Pradnya Pralhad Kanekar -- Characterization, production, and application of microbial lipases for food, agriculture, health, and environment / Jeyabalan Sangeetha, Ravichandra Hospet, Devarajan Thangadurai, Abhishek Channayya Mundaragi, Purushotham Prathima, and Muniswamy David -- Microorganisms as potential biosorbents of heavy metals / Antony Alex Kennedy Ajilda, Nagarajan Padmini, Natesan Sivakumar, and Gopal Selvakumar -- Bioremediation processes and molecular tools for detoxification of heavy metals and rehabilitation of contaminated environments using microbial genetic and genomic resources / Jeyabalan Sangeetha, Devarajan Thangadurai, Ravichandra Hospet, Purushotham Prathima, Shrinivas Jadhav, and Muniswamy David -- Microbial applications in nanotechnology industry / Essam A. Makky and Mashitah Mohd Yusoff.