Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology
Publisher: Horizon Scientific Press
Editors: Nuzhat Ahmed, Fouad M. Qureshi, and Obaid Y. Khan
Centre for Molecular Genetics, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
Publication date: September 2001
ISBN-10: 1-898486-30-1 (hbk)
ISBN-13: 978-1-898486-30-5 (hbk)
Price: GB £95 or US $190
Pages: xii + 196
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The contamination of the environment by herbicides, pesticides, solvents, various industrial byproducts (including toxic metals, radionucleotides and metalloids) is of enormous economic and environmental significance. Biotechnology can be used to develop "green" or environmentally friendly solutions to these problems by harnessing the ability of bacteria to adapt metabolic pathways, or recruit new genes to metabolise harmful compounds into harmless byproducts. In addition to its role in cleaning-up the environment, biotechnology can be used for the production of novel compounds with both agricultural and industrial applications.
Internationally acclaimed authors from diverse fields present comprehensive reviews of all aspects of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology. Based on presentations given at the key International symposium on Biotechnology in Karachi in 1998, the articles have been extensively revised and updated.
Chapters concerned with environmental biotechnology cover two major categories of pollutants: organic compounds and metals. Organic pollutants include cyclic aromatic compounds, with/without nitrogenous or chloride substitutions while metal pollutants include copper, chromate, silver, arsenic and mercury. The genetic basis of bioremediation and the microbial processes involved are examined, and the current and/or potential applications of bioremediation are discussed.
The use of biotechnology for industrial and agricultural applications includes a chapter on the use of enzymes as biocatalysts to synthesize novel opiate derivatives of medical value. The conversion of low-value molasses to higher value products by biotechnological methods and the use tissue culture methods to improve sugar cane and potatoes crop production is discussed.
Chapter List
Chapter 1: Molecular Mechanisms Regulating the Catechol and Chlorocatechol Biodegradative Operons
Chugani, S. A. and Chakrabarty, A. M.
Chapter 2: Biotreatment of Phenolic Waste of a Typical Pharmaceutical Plant
Ahmed, S. and Hameed, A.
Chapter 3: Genes for Pentachlorophenol Degradation and the Bacteria That Contain Them
Saboo, V., Sullivan, M., Sobhon, V. and Gealt, M. A.
Chapter 4: Toxic Metal Resistances: Molecular Biology and the Potential for Bioremediation
Silver, S., Phung, L. T., Lo, J-F. and Gupta, A.
Chapter 5: Characterizations of Copper and Chromate Resistant Bacteria Isolated From Karachi Tanneries Effluents
Badar, U., Abbas, R. and Ahmed, N.
Chapter 6: Microbial Processes for Solubilization or Immobilization of Metals and Metalloids and Their Potential for Environmental Bioremediation
Gadd, G. M., Bridge, T. A. M., Gharieb, M. M., Sayer, J. A., and White, C.
Chapter 7: Resistance and Accumulation of Heavy Metals by Indigenous Bacteria: Bioremediation
Ahmed, N., Badar, U. and Raihan, S.
Chapter 8: Application of Microorganisms to the Decontamination of Heavy Metal-bearing Wastes
Macaskie, L. E. Thomas, R. A. P. and Lloyd, J. R.
Chapter 9: Microbial Transformation of Morphine Alkaloids: Biological Routes for the Production of Semisynthetic Opiate Drugs
Rathbone, D. A. and Bruce, N. C.
Chapter 10: Influence of Ammonium Concentration on Citric Acid and Biomass Production from Sugarcane molasses by 2-Deoxy-D-glucose-Resistant Mutant Strain of Aspergillus niger
Parvez, S., Shahid, R., Ahmed, M. N. and Rajoka, M. I.
Chapter 11: Tissue and Cell Culture for Sugarcane Improvement
Khatri, A., Khan, I. A., Javed, M.A., Siddiqui, S. H., Ahmad, M., Khanzada, M. H., Dahar,N.A. And Khan,R.
Chapter 12: Seed Potato Production Strategy Through Tissue Culture
Quraishi, A. and Bhatti, M.
Chapter 13: Applications of Molecular Methods for Typing Bacteria
Ghori, S. A. and Grubb, W. B.
Chapter 14: Plasma Protein Studies of Patients with Mental Disorders and Normal Individuals
Haider, T. and Jawaid, U.
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