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This book comprises a total of 14 chapters contributed by experts from different countries worldwide. It is a comprehensive collection of articles to illustrate an overview of microbial catalysts that include enzymes widely contribute to many fields infood and industrial products. Microorganisms have served and continue to serve as one of the largest and most useful sources of many enzymes used in foods and the food industry. Microbial catalysts are environmentally friendly and consume lower energy. A particular aim of this book is focused on applied and industrial microbiology, agricultural microbiology, and food microbiology. All sections discuss microbial catalysts viz., enzymes with respect to their function and its benefit to human kind especially, and to biotechnology as a subject of which enzymology is an integral part. The book also deals with structure and function of some microbial enzymes. Microbial catalysts are generally preferred than plant and animal as sources of industrial enzymes because their production cost is low. In addition, enzymes are more predictable and controllable, and more so because of the easy availability of raw materials with constant composition for their cultivation.

Dr Neelam Garg was born in Hoshiarpur (Punjab) in 1960. She completed her both higher degrees of Masters and Doctorate in Microbiology from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana (Punjab) with a focus on Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxins. She was a recipient of merit fellowship in Masters and CSIR Research Fellowship during her Ph.D. programme. Presently, she is Professor and has presided over the Department of Microbiology as Chairperson (HOD), Faculty of Life Sciences, Kurukshetra University (KUK), Kurukshetra-136 119 for three terms latest being from 2012-2018. She has over 31 years of research and teaching experience as a faculty member in PAU and KUK. She was awarded two major research projects by Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Government of India),