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Metabolic Products of Mixed Culture Fermentation

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Mixed culture fermentation provides a great avenue for the production of various metabolites of commercial use. It has clear economical and process advantages over pure culture fermentations. However, some limitations still exist as the consortium of bacteria drives the process kinetics. To overcome such limitations, the bio-processes as well as syntrophic relationship of the microorganisms must be taken into account to control the process meticulously. In this chapter, we have focused mainly on mixed culture fermentation, complexities associated to it, control and regulation of the process and several parameters which play a vital role in stable operation of the mixed culture fermentation process. This chapter aimed at understanding the functionality and importance of solid-state fermentation, along with submerged fermentation.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Chalapathi Institute of Technology, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Siddhartha Pandey

  2. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Marwadi University Rajkot, Rajkot, Gujarat, India

    Nitin Kumar Singh

  3. Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

    Tara Chand Yadav

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ankur Kumar Bansal

  5. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, India

    Arti Thanki

  6. Central Mine Planning and Design Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Manish Yadav

  7. Department of Chemical Engineering, VSB Engineering College, Karur, Tamilnadu, India

    Jayato Nayak

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Pandey, S. et al. (2020). Metabolic Products of Mixed Culture Fermentation. In: Singh, V., Singh, A., Bhargava, P., Joshi, M., Joshi, C. (eds) Engineering of Microbial Biosynthetic Pathways. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2604-6_5

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