Publisher's Synopsis
A review of the state-of-the-art in biotechnology from the early fifties when penicillin became the first large scale product of biotechnology through to important present day advances in biochemical engineering.;Microbial insectisides, prospects of producing hydrocarbons by biotechnological methods, physiological factors and microbial cell yields, new challenges of metabolic engineering, bacterial production of ethanol and bioprocess consideration in the use of genetically modified E.coli are covered.;Professor Ghose brings together world experts in the area to create this text.
