 1686526. ALEXANDER N GLAZERMicrobial biotechnology: Fundamentals of applied microbiology/ Alexander N Glazer, Hiroshi Nikaido.- 1st.- New York: W. H. Freeman, 1994; 662p.. ISBN: 0716726084 Tóm tắt: This book provides a unified treatment of the scientific disciplines that make up the ever-expanding field of modern industrial biotechnology. It presents the basic science behind the commercial and technological uses of microorganisms, focusing on the techniques and scientific logic that are leading to breakthrough discoveries and applications. It examines the fundamental principles and facts that underlie current practical applications of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms, describes those applications, and examines future prospects for related technologies. It consists of five parts. Part One, Microbial diversity and its applications, introduces microbial bioltechnology in the context of the vast diversity of microorganisms. Part Two addresses the most widely exploited attribute of engineered microorganisms, their ability to synthesize large amounts of complex biopolymers such as proteins, polisaccharides, and polysters. Part Three illustrates how the techniques of genetic manipulation discussed earlier are exploited for the stable introduction into crop plants of genes such as those of herbicides and pest resistance. Part Four describes the biochemistry of lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose, the major components of land-plant-biomass, examines the enzymatic coversion of plant polysaccharides to simple sugar, the raw materials in the manufacture of organic solvents, describes microbial fermentations leading to ethanol and the issue surrounding the use of ethanol produced by fermentation as a fuel. Part Five describes the exploitation of microorganisms as "bioreactors" in the manufacture of valuable bioorganic compounds. Part Six encompasses two seemingly unrelated fields: microorganisms in organic chemistry and the environmental applications of microbiology (industrial microbiology; microbial biotechnology; ) |Công nghệ thực phẩm; Vi sinh học công nghiệp; | [Vai trò: Hiroshi Nikaido; ] DDC: 660.62 /Nguồn thư mục: [SCTHU]. |