1. Advancement of Biotechnology by Genetic Modifications
Arnold L. Demain and Sergio Sanchez
2. Carotenoids Production: A Healthy and Profitable Industry
Carlos Barreiro and Jos -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
Mar a del Carmen Cer n Garc a, Cynthia Victoria Gonz lez L pez, Jos Mar a Fern ndez Sevilla, and Emilio Molina Grima
7. Adaptive Laboratory Evolution for Enhanced Carotenoid Production in Microalgae
Yixi Su, Zhiqian Yi, Sn d s Huld Bj rnsd ttir, 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, Cl mence Chaintreuil, Jo l Fardoux, and Andr Verm glio
13. Molecular Tools for Carotenogenesis Analysis in the Mucoral
Mucor circinelloides
Francisco E. Nicol s, Mar a Isabel Navarro-Mendoza, Carlos P rez-Arques, Sergio L pez-Garc a, Eusebio Navarro, Santiago Torres-Mart nez, and Victoriano Garre
14. Expression Vectors and Gene Fusions for the Directed Modification of the Carotenoid Biosynthesis Pathway in Mucor circinelloides
Enrique A. Iturriaga, Mar a Isabel Alvarez, Arturo P. Eslava, and Tam s Papp
15. Lycopene Production by Mated Fermentation of
Blakeslea trispora
Sonia Mart nez-C mara, Sara Rubio, Hannah del R o, Marta Rodr guez-S iz, and Jos Luis Barredo
16. HPLC Analysis of Carotenoids in Neurosporaxanthin-producing Fungi
D maso Hornero-M ndez, M. Carmen Lim n, and Javier Avalos
17. Extraction and Analysis of Carotenes and Xanthophylls Produced by Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous
Carlos Garc a-Estrada, Katarina Kosalkov , and Isabel-Clara S nchez-Orejas
18. Isolation and Selection of New Astaxanthin Producing Strains of Phaffia rhodozyma
Diego Libkind, Mart n Molin , and Fernando Colabella
19. Engineering
Pichia pastoris for the Production of Carotenoids
Patricia Veiga-Crespo, Jos Miguel Araya-Garay, and Tom s G. Villa
20. Isolation and Characterization of Extrachromosomal Double-Stranded RNA Elements from Carotenogenic Yeasts
Marcelo Baeza, Mar a Fern ndez-Lobato, Jen