1. Advancement of Biotechnology by Genetic Modifications
Arnold L. Demain and Sergio Sanchez
2. Carotenoids Production: A Healthy and Profitable Industry
Carlos Barreiro and José-Luis Barredo
3. Carotenoids: From Plants to Food and Feed Industries
Panagiota Langi, Sotirios Kiokias, Theodoros Varzakas, and Charalampos Proestos
4. Express Analysis of Microalgal Secondary Carotenoids by TLC and UV-Vis Spectroscopy
Galina S. Minyuk and Alexei E. Solovchenko
5. Batch Cultivation for Astaxanthin Analysis Using the Green Microalga Chlorella zofingiensis under Multitrophic Growth Conditions
Jin Liu
6. Preparative Recovery of Carotenoids from Microalgal Biomass
María del Carmen Cerón García, Cynthia Victoria González López, José María Fernández Sevilla, and Emilio Molina Grima
7. Adaptive Laboratory Evolution for Enhanced Carotenoid Production in Microalgae
Yixi Su, Zhiqian Yi, Snædís Huld Björnsdóttir, Sigurdur Brynjolfson, and Weiqi Fu
8. Carotenoid Production by Recombinant Corynebacterium glutamicum: Strain Construction, Cultivation, Extraction and Quantification of Carotenoids and Terpenes
Nadja A. Henke, Jonas Frohwitter, Petra Peters-Wendisch, and Volker F. Wendisch
9. Rapid and Selective Screening Method for Isolation and Identification of Carotenoid-producing Bacteria
Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda
10. Purification and Identification of Astaxanthin and its Novel Derivative Produced by Radio-tolerant Sphingomonas astaxanthinifaciens
Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda
11. Screening, Isolation, and Identification of Zeaxanthin-producing Bacteria
Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda
12. Synthesis of Carotenoids of Industrial Interest in the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris: Bioengineering and Growth Conditions
Eric Giraud, Laure Hannibal, Clémence Chaintreuil, Joël Fardoux, and André Verméglio
13. Molecular Tools for Carotenogenesis Analysis in the Mucoral Mucor circinelloides Francisco E. Nicolás, María Isabel Navarro-Mendoza, Carlos Pérez-Arques, Sergio López-García, Eusebio Navarro, Santiago Torres-Martínez, and Victoriano Garre
14. Expression Vectors and Gene Fusions for the Directed Modification of the Carotenoid Biosynthesis Pathway in Mucor circinelloides
Enrique A. Iturriaga, María Isabel Alvarez, Arturo P. Eslava, and Tamás Papp
15. Lycopene Production by Mated Fermentation of Blakeslea trispora Sonia Martínez-Cámara, Sara Rubio, Hannah del Río, Marta Rodríguez-Sáiz, and José Luis Barredo
16. HPLC Analysis of Carotenoids in Neurosporaxanthin-producing Fungi
Dámaso Hornero-Méndez, M. Carmen Limón, and Javier Avalos
17. Extraction and Analysis of Carotenes and Xanthophylls Produced by Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous
Carlos García-Estrada, Katarina Kosalková, and Isabel-Clara Sánchez-Orejas
18. Isolation and Selection of New Astaxanthin Producing Strains of Phaffia rhodozyma
Diego Libkind, Martín Moliné, and Fernando Colabella
19. Engineering Pichia pastoris for the Production of Carotenoids Patricia Veiga-Crespo, José Miguel Araya-Garay, and Tomás G. Villa
20. Isolation and Characterization of Extrachromosomal Double-Stranded RNA Elements from Carotenogenic Yeasts
Marcelo Baeza, María Fernández-Lobato, Jen
