
Scale-up and Chemical Process for Microbial Production of Plant-Derived Bioactive Compounds
From Laboratory to Industry
- 1st Edition - March 20, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Yongjun Wei, Xiao-Jun Ji, Mingfeng Cao
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 5 8 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 5 8 5 - 7
Many plant-derived bioactive compounds are the foundation for drugs or effective drugs to cure diseases. Usually, the bioactive compounds in plant biomass are low, and the… Read more
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Request a sales quoteScale-up and Chemical Process for Microbial Production of Plant-Derived Bioactive Compounds: From Laboratory to Industry summarizes recent commercial microbial production strategies for plant-derived bioactive compounds. This comprehensive summary will be of great interest to scientists and researchers, as well as engineers who work on the microbial production of plant-derived bioactive compounds in the industry.
- Introduces the scale-up and chemical process development for microbial production of plant-derived bioactive compounds
- Covers the useful and effective sustainable and commercial production of plant-derived bioactive compounds
- Provides a guide for commercial production of plant-derived bioactive compounds and their uses for human welfare
2. Different microbial strategies used for industrial-scale production of plant-derived bioactive compounds
3. Optimization parameters for efficient scale-up of fermentation process
4. Development of economic extraction and purification process for plant-derived bioactive compounds
5. Screening and characterization of probiotics for large-scale production of plant-derived prebiotics
6. Designing and engineering synthetic microbiota to utilize plant lignin-based biomass for the synthesis of bioactive compounds
7. The principles to design and optimization of industrial bioprocesses
8. The synthetic probiotic microbiota and their potential applications in the production of plant-derived products
9. Fermentation utilizing engineered microbes: revolutionizing the production of commercial products from plant-derived bioactive compounds
10. Examples for successful commercial production of plant-derived bioactive compounds
11. Production of synthetic edible oils with engineered yeasts: from lab to commercialization
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 20, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 272
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443155840
- eBook ISBN: 9780443155857
YW
Yongjun Wei
XJ
Xiao-Jun Ji
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Mingfeng Cao
Dr. Mingfeng Cao, PhD, is the Minjiang distinguished professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, the director of the Institute of Bioengineering, and an honorary research fellow of the Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory at the Xiamen Laboratory, China. He was awarded his PhD from the Nankai University in 2011, and between 2011 and 2013 worked as a research associate at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He completed postdoctoral studies at Iowa State University, USA and was a research scientist at the University of Illinois from 2018 to 2021. His research focuses on the development of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering strategies to establish microbial cell factories for value-added and green chemical production. Dr. Cao has published over 60 journal articles and holds 10 patents. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of Biotechnology Reports and the associate editor for journals such as Microbial Cell Factories and Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts.