TY - BOOK ID - 8360945 TI - Biotechnology for agro-industrial residues utilisation : utilisation of agro-residues AU - Nigam, Poonam Singh AU - Pandey, Ashok. PY - 2009 SN - 940078936X 140209941X 9786612363511 1282363514 1402099428 PB - [Netherlands] : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural wastes --Recycling. KW - Factory and trade waste --Purification. KW - Waste products as fertilizer. KW - Factory and trade waste KW - Agricultural wastes KW - Waste products as fertilizer KW - Agriculture KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Agriculture - General KW - Purification KW - Recycling KW - Recycling. KW - Purification. KW - Purification of factory and trade waste KW - Medicine. KW - Biotechnology. KW - Microbiology. KW - Life sciences. KW - Biomedicine. KW - Biomedicine general. KW - Applied Microbiology. KW - Life Sciences, general. KW - Fertilizers KW - Recycling (Waste, etc.) KW - Biosciences KW - Sciences, Life KW - Science KW - Microbial biology KW - Biology KW - Microorganisms KW - Chemical engineering KW - Genetic engineering KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Health Workforce KW - Biomedicine, general. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8360945 AB - Residues from agriculture and the food industry consist of many and varied wastes, in total accounting for over 250 million tonnes of waste per year in the UK alone. Biotechnological processing of these residues would allow these waste products to be used as a resource, with tremendous potential. An extensive range of valuable and usable products can be recovered from what was previously considered waste: including fuels, feeds and pharmaceutical products. In this way Biotechnology can offer many viable alternatives to the disposal of agricultural waste, producing several new products in the process. This book presents up-to-date information on a biotechnology approach for the utilisation of agro-industrial residues, presenting chapters with detailed information on materials and bioconversion technology to obtain products of economic importance: The production of industrial products using agro-industrial residues as substrates The biotechnological potential of agro-industrial residues for bioprocesses Enzymes degrading agro-industrial residues and their production Bioconversion of agro-industrial residues Written by experts in Biotechnological processing of Agro-Industrial Residues, this book will provide useful information for academic researchers and industry scientists working in biotechnology, waste management, agriculture and the food industry. ER -