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Agro-Industrial Waste as Substrates for the Production of Bacterial Pigment

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Valorisation of Agro-industrial Residues – Volume I: Biological Approaches

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There is worldwide interest in process development for the production of pigments from natural sources due to a serious safety problem with many artificial synthetic colorants, which have widely been used in foodstuff, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Low-cost by-products and residues of agro-industrial origin have shown their potential in production of different pigments by diverse group microorganisms and to explore the possibility of pigment production by different microbial isolates from numerous sources on various substrates. The main applications of recycled wastes are enzyme production, organic acid isolation, pigment extraction, bioactive compound production, etc. Therefore, more regulatory approval and capital investments are required to bring these value-added products in the commercial market. The conversion of agro-industrial residues to important substances may not only provide future dimension to researchers but also reduce the current environmental hazards.

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The financial support to Dr. C.K. VENIL from the Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship, UGC is gratefully acknowledged.

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  2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

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Venil, C.K., Devi, P.R., Ahmad, W.A. (2020). Agro-Industrial Waste as Substrates for the Production of Bacterial Pigment. In: Zakaria, Z., Boopathy, R., Dib, J. (eds) Valorisation of Agro-industrial Residues – Volume I: Biological Approaches. Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39137-9_7

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