Presents the diverse and complex sets of technology, data, knowledge, ideas, and objectives into an integrated and holistic approach to bioprospecting. * Explores the primacy of natural products for biotechnology, emphasizing the extraordinary resource that microbial diversity presents and how and where that resource, and the exploitable properties that it contains, can be found. * Demonstrates the need for modern microbiologists to have an integrated perspective of science in order to address the big questions in microbiology. * Serves as a reference for instructors and researchers in environmental microbiology, biotechnology, and microbial diversity as well as applied biologists.
This title is published by the American Society for Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.
- ISBN10 1555812678
- ISBN13 9781555812676
- Publish Date 7 November 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 February 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint American Society for Microbiology
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 516
- Language English