Question

Strategies for industrial strain development

Answer 1

Strategies of Strain Improvement of Industrial Microbes. Microbes produce a variety of products in very low concentrations which have been used as antibiotics, drugs, vitamins, enzymes, bulk organic compounds, polymers, amino acids, biofuels, etc.

Answer 2

The term microbial strain improvement encompasses development of strains which possess enhanced capacity to: (1) utilise complex raw material and efficiently assimilate making the process inexpensive, (2) reduce or eliminate undesired by-products of the microbial process, (3) enhance extracellular release of the by- ...