Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals

1. Front Matter

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2. General Concepts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Waste Biomass: A Prospective Renewable Resource for Development of Bio-Based Economy/Processes

      • Surinder Kaur, Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Saurabh Jyoti Sarma, Satinder Kaur Brar, Kshipra Misra, Harinder Singh Oberoi

      Pages 3-28

   3. Pretreatment Strategies to Enhance Value Addition of Agro-industrial Wastes

      • Adenise Lorenci Woiciechowski, Susan Grace Karp, Keli Sobral, Júlio Cesar de Carvalho, Luiz Alberto Junior Letti, Vanete Tomaz Soccol et al.

      Pages 29-49

   4. Thermochemical Transformation of Agro-biomass into Biochar: Simultaneous Carbon Sequestration and Soil Amendment

      • Mausam Verma, Naceur M’hamdi, Zeineb Dkhili, Satinder Kaur Brar, Kshipra Misra

      Pages 51-70

3. Bioactive Secondary Metabolites

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Microbial Pigments

      • Júlio C. De Carvalho, Lígia C. Cardoso, Vanessa Ghiggi, Adenise Lorenci Woiciechowski, Luciana Porto de Souza Vandenberghe, Carlos Ricardo Soccol

      Pages 73-97

   3. Utilization of Agro-industrial Waste for the Production of Aroma Compounds and Fragrances

      • Saurabh Jyoti Sarma, Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Krishnamoorthy Hegde, Satinder Kaur Brar, Mausam Verma

      Pages 99-115

   4. Antioxidants

      • Mamta, Kshipra Misra, Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Satinder Kaur Brar, Mausam Verma

      Pages 117-138

   5. Solid-State Fermentation of Agricultural Residues for the Production of Antibiotics

      • Ganesh Kumar Arumugam, Venkatesh Selvaraj, Dharani Gopal, Kirubagaran Ramalingam

      Pages 139-162

   6. Plant Growth Hormones and Other Phytochemicals

      • Luciana Porto de Souza Vandenberghe, Cristine Rodrigues, Juliana de Oliveira, Carlos Ricardo Soccol

      Pages 163-183

4. Natural Functional Food Products

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Probiotics

      • Galina Novik, Anastasiya Sidarenka, Elena Kiseleva, Emily Kolomiets, Estera Szwajcer Dey

      Pages 187-235

   3. Prebiotics

      • P. S. Panesar, Vandana Bali, Shweta Kumari, Neha Babbar, Harinder Singh Oberoi

      Pages 237-259

   4. Potential of Agro-residues as Sources of Bioactive Compounds

      • Neha Babbar, Harinder Singh Oberoi

      Pages 261-295

5. Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297

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   2. Biologically Active Compounds Form Seafood Processing By-Products

      • Se-Kwon Kim, Pradeep Dewapriya

      Pages 299-311

   3. Microbial Statins

      • Leandro F. dos Santos, Júlio C. de Carvalho, Rosália Rubel, Carlos Ricardo Soccol

      Pages 313-333

   4. Exploring Plant and Agro-industrial Wastes for Antimicrobial Biochemicals

      • Sangeeta Negi

      Pages 335-365

   5. Pharmaceutical Enzymes

      • Deeplina Das, Arun Goyal

      Pages 367-387

Agro-industrial wastes are end-products emerging after industrial processing operations and also from their treatment and disposal e.g. solid fruit wastes and sludge. The agro-industrial wastes are often present in multiphase and comprise multicomponent. Nevertheless, these wastes are a goldmine as they possess valuable organic matter which can be diverted towards high value products ranging from polymers to antibiotics to platform chemicals. There have been plenty of books published on bioenergy, enzymes and organic acids, among others. However, this emerging field of biochemical has not yet been covered so far which is an important entity of the biorefinery model from waste biomass and needs to be understood from fundamental, applied as well as commercial perspective which has been laid out in this book.

• agro-industrial waste
• biovalorization
• industrial microbiology

• University of Québec INRS-ETE, Québec, Canada

  Satinder Kaur Brar

• University of Québec, University of Québec INRS-ETE, Québec, Canada

  Gurpreet Singh Dhillon

• Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Parana Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology, Curitiba, Brazil

  Carlos Ricardo Soccol

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