This book is a comprehensive guide for industrial bioprocess development, covering major aspects of microbial processes and their role in biotechnology. It provides a selection of hyperproducers, microbial products, and metabolic engineering strategies for industrial production. It covers high cell density cultivation techniques product formation kinetics measurement and limiting parameters in large-scale process development. The first and second section of the book focuses on biotechniques, including spectroscopic concepts of light, wave, and electromagnetic theory, as well as absorption, fluorescence, phosphorescence, infrared, and Raman spectroscopy. It also covers the basic principles, concepts, biological applications, and other advanced techniques. The third section emphasizes microbial inventions and improvements in bioprocess development. It covers microbial products and recent developments in fermentation technology and also includes information on metabolic engineering. The fourth section related to microbial inventions and bioprocesses which include platforms for recombinant gene expression, as well as the development of recombinant heterologous expression systems such as E. coli, yeast, mammalian and insect cells, and plant cells used as biofactories. The fifth section of the book focuses on microbial product waste management in extreme environments, biomass waste management, bio-pulping, bio-bleaching, textiles, biofuels, and animal feed production. The book aims to provide a multidisciplinary opportunity on all aspects of microbial biotechnology. It covers recent international developments that have renewed interest in industrial microbiology and biotechnology. The book is suitable for teachers, researchers, graduate and post-graduate students, environmentalists, microbiologists, and biotechnologists.

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Dr. Pradeep Verma is a Professor at the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, CURAJ, Ajmer, India. He received his Ph.D. from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, and his Master's and Bachelors from MDS University, Rajasthan. He has worked as visiting scientist at UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany, and as a PDF at ASCR Prague, Gottingen University Germany, and RISH Kyoto University Japan. He also worked at Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai, India. His stay at Japan and Reliance Life Sciences resulted in several commercialized National and International patents. He also worked as Associate Professor and Reader-Founder Head at GGV, Bilaspur, and Assam University, Silchar, India. During his scientific tenure, he has received various prestigious awards and fellowships such as the Ron-Cockcroft Award from the Swedish Society, UNESCO fellow, DFG fellow, JSPS PDF and JSPS-Bridge Fellow. He is a fellow of the Mycological Society of India, the Biotech Research Society of India and the Association of Microbiological Society (AMI). His area of expertise involves microbial diversity, proteomics bioprocess development of microwave-assisted pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass and value-added products, along with algal biomass-based biorefinery. He has contributed to 75+ research papers, 50+ book chapters, and 11+ edited books. He is an editorial board member and reviewer of more than 50+ journals including, Bioresource Technology, Renewable Energy, 3 Biotech, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Biotechnological Advances, Bioresources and Bioprocessing, etc. He has more than 20 years of research and teaching experience in bioprocess and microbial biotechnology, industrial microbiology.