Microbial Pigments and Their Application

Vishnupriya, Selvaraju; Bhavaniramya, Sundaresan; Baskaran, D.; Karthiayani, A.

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-0045-6_9

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“…The numerous applications of microbial pigments in food, textile, leather, cosmetic, and drug industries have been reviewed very often in the last five years by various authors [1,2,114,164,[211][212][213][214]. Here, we detail the selected and recent applications of microbial pigments in various areas.…”

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Natural Substrates and Culture Conditions to Produce Pigments from Potential Microbes in Submerged Fermentation

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Pigments from bacteria, fungi, yeast, cyanobacteria, and microalgae have been gaining more demand in the food, leather, and textile industries due to their natural origin and effective bioactive functions. Mass production of microbial pigments using inexpensive and ecofriendly agro-industrial residues is gaining more demand in the current research due to their low cost, natural origin, waste utilization, and high pigment stimulating characteristics. A wide range of natural substrates has been employed in submerged fermentation as carbon and nitrogen sources to enhance the pigment production from these microorganisms to obtain the required quantity of pigments. Submerged fermentation is proven to yield more pigment when added with agro-waste residues. Hence, in this review, aspects of potential pigmented microbes such as diversity, natural substrates that stimulate more pigment production from bacteria, fungi, yeast, and a few microalgae under submerged culture conditions, pigment identification, and ecological functions are detailed for the benefit of industrial personnel, researchers, and other entrepreneurs to explore pigmented microbes for multifaceted applications. In addition, some important aspects of microbial pigments are covered herein to disseminate the knowledge.

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