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- English
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Bioeconomy of Streptomyces
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of streptomycetes, highlighting their various habitats, diversity, genetic structure, and metabolic engineering techniques to enhance the production of secondary metabolites. It also presents techniques for the isolation, cultivation, biochemical identification, chemotaxonomy, and phylogenetic analysis of streptomycetes. The book explores the production of bioactive compounds from streptomycetes, including novel natural products, antimicrobial agents, pharmaceuticals, medicinal compounds, and bioactive enzymes. Furthermore, the book examines the diverse applications of streptomycetes in agriculture, medicine, industry, and bioremediation. The chapters emphasize the latest technological advancements such as bioprocess optimization, genetic engineering, metabolic engineering, genome mining, and pathway engineering for enhancing the production of secondary metabolites from Streptomyces. As such, this book is of interest to academicians, researchers, and professionals working in the fields of bioprocessing, microbiology, industrial microbiology, medical microbiology, fermentation technology, and biotechnology.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Exploring the ecological and molecular frontiers of Streptomyces: From soil to sea
- Chapter 2 Introduction of Streptomyces as microbial drug factory of actinomycetes and rich source of novel secondary metabolites
- Chapter 3 Bioprocess optimization and scale-up to enhance the production of secondary metabolites from Streptomyces
- Chapter 4 Potential biotechnological and industrial applications of Streptomyces spp. metabolites
- Chapter 5 Production of medicinal compound from streptomycetes
- Chapter 6 Streptomyces as a novel source of enzymes and approaches to enhance the production of enzymes
- Chapter 7 Application of streptomycetes in medicine
- Chapter 8 Streptomycetes: A promising biological tool for bioremediation of environmental contaminants
- Chapter 9 Biological features of streptomycetes biofilms and their role in the biotechnology industry
- Chapter 10 Streptomyces as source of secondary metabolites and bioprocessing strategies for enhanced production of secondary metabolites
- Chapter 11 Genetic engineering of streptomycetes to enhance the production of secondary metabolites
- Chapter 12 A comprehensive study of the role of Streptomyces in the food industry and the contribution of biotechnological approaches
- Index