Open AccessBIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF MICROBES IN AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY: A REVIEW
Author(s) -
Maria Kalsoom,
Faisal Rehman,
Talha Shafique,
Sanwal Junaid,
Nimra Khalid,
Muhammad Adnan,
Irfan Zafar,
Muhammad Tariq,
Muhammad Adnan Raza,
Amber Zahra,
Ali Husnain
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
innovare journal of life science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2321-550X
DOI - 10.22159/ijls.2020.v8i6.39845
Subject(s) - agriculture , microbiology and biotechnology , sustainable agriculture , food industry , pharmaceutical industry , biofertilizer , biopesticide , business , agrochemical , biology , food science , agronomy , ecology , pesticide
Biotechnology is the most prominent and rapidly growing segment of the biological sciences that is making its diversified application in sustainable agriculture. Biofertilizers, biopesticides, bioherbicides, bioinsecticides, and many of the other fungal based and viral based insecticides, obtained using microorganisms, are some of the outcomes of biotechnology playing a key role in sustainable agriculture. Many of other important food products are also obtained by microbial fermentation. Different microbes are added to get the desired effect of food at the specific stages of food production process. Pharmaceutical microbiology includes the manufacturing of different pharmaceutical and medicinal products. This review article has a wide overview of microbes mainly used in agriculture, food industries, and pharmaceutical industries.