Current Topics on Bioprocesses in Food Industry, Vol. III
Contents: Preface. 1. Bioprocessing cereals for health study on the effects of organic solvent stress on Bacillus licheniformis S-86/Sebastian Torres, Licia M. Pera, Ashok Pandey and Guillermo R. Castro. 2. Stimuli-responsive polymers in biotechnology/Smita Raghava and Munishwar N. Gupta. 3. Ellagic acid production by solid-state fermentation/Juan S. Hernandez-Rivera, Antonio F. Aguilera-Carbo, Raul Rodriguez-Herrera, Jose L. Martinez and Cristobal N. Aguilar. 4. In vitro growth response of lactic acid cultures to mucilaginous materials/Smita Shrikant Nilegoankar and Vaishali Vilas Agte. 5. Biotechnological development of a coconut water probiotic beverage/Carlos R. Soccol, Flavera C. Prado, Ashok Pandey, Adriane B.P. Medeiros, Luciana P.S. Vandenberghe and Vanete T. Soccol. 6. Effect of different levels of thermotolerant probiotic yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) on intakes, nutrient digestibility and rumen fermentation pattern in straw based complete diets fed Murrah Buffalo steers/L. Venkateswar Rao, B. Bhima, Y. Ramana Reddy, M. Pavani and M. Sudhakara Reddy. 7. A novel alginate from the Brown Seaweed Sargassum turbinaroides (sargassae)/Celine Laroche and Philippe Michaud. 8. Fruit-based immobilized biocatalysts: their potential in food production/Yiannis Kourkoutas, Maria Kanellaki and A.A. Koutinas. 9. Role of biotechnology in recovery of bioactive components from seafood industry by-products/Bhaskar Narayan and Sachindra Nakkarike Manjabhat. 10. Termitomyces: a nutritive alternative for food and food bioproducts/Deepak Verma, Rajib Majumder, Soumya Mukherjee and Suman Khowala. 11. Experimental and theoretical approaches in investigating enzymatic mechanisms: applications on the thermostable extracellular protease A-17N-1 from Bacillus sp. with possible biotechnological interest/Emmanuel M. Papamichael and Leonidas G. Theodorou. 12. Control of adipogenesis and obesity by dietary lipids and nutraceutical factors/Kazushige Yokota, Abu Asad Chowdhury, Xiaoqing Chu, Pinky Karim Syeda, Mohammad Salim Hossain, Kohji Nishimura, Mitsuo Jisaka and Tsutomu Nagaya. 13. Biochemical, molecular and in silico characterization of DNA-Binding with One Finger (DOF) Transcription factor and investigating its diverse functions in plants/Hariom Kushwaha and Dinesh Yadav. 14. Transgenic residues in Mexican maize-based foods/Nadia Fabiola Valdes-Monsivais, Marisol Rodriguez-Lara, Claudia Gabriel Macias-de la-Cerda, Mariana Cantu-Iris, Victoria Lizeth Hernandez-Orona, Norma Paola Melendez-Renteria, Manuel Humberto Reyes-Valdes, Cristobal Noe Aguilar and Raul Rodriguez-Herrera. 15. Exploiting bacterial traits for plant growth promoting activity in agriculture/Syed G. Dastager and C.K. Deepa. 16. Biotechnological exploitation of brewery solid wastes/Argyro Bekatorou, Nicolas Kopsahelis, Athanasios Mallouchos, Stavros Plessas, Nikolaos Droushiotis, Maria Kanellaki, Michael Komaitis, Athanasios A. Koutinas and Poonam Nigam. 17. Reductive transformation of 2-nitrophenol using palladized bacterial cellulose/Vyjayanthi Jeevan Prakash, Upendra Dahyabhai Patel and Sumathi Suresh. Subject index.
"This book is the outcome of the selected papers presented in the International Congress on Bioprocesses in Food Industries (ICBF-2008) and aims to provide an in-depth information on varied topics related with food and fermentation technology. It comprises seventeen chapters, which deal with the enzymes in aqueous phase and their applications for biotechnology processes, smart polymers in bioseparation, use of solid-state fermentation for the production of enzymes and organic acids, probiotics based on lactic acid bacteria, yeast and mushrooms for humans and cattle, production of polysaccharides and bioactive compounds from marine sources, biocatalysts and wine making, control of adipogenesis and obesity by dietary lipids and nutraceutical factors, gene expression and transgenics in plants, PGPR etc.
The text is supported by numerous clear, informative diagrams.
The book would be highly useful to students and researchers of applied biology, biotechnology, microbiology and biochemical engineering."
