Authors : Abdul Basit Haneef 1*, Faisalul Ameen K 1, Muhammad Uvais P K 2
Volume : 10
Issue : 4
Year : 2023
Page No : 1-6
The term microbe is an umbrella term used to denote organisms of micro size that mainly includes bacteria, fungus and protists. This paper is focused on collecting the informations and giving an overview on the microbes and its applications in treatment of contaminated water, and it ’s industrial application for the production and enhancement in industrial products. The methodology- searching the databases like “PubMed”, “Research gate” and “google scholar” using the keywords like “microbes of dairy industry”, “bacteria for leather industry” and “microbial application in industries”. The microbes were selected for listing by coinciding different articles retrieved from the databases by making the names of the microbes as the keywords. findings are- the microbes like Lactococcus lactis, Lactobacillus helveticus and some others contribute to dairy industry, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus plantarum, Propionibacterium freudenreichii, Lactobacillus acidophilus , and Escherichia coli, Streptomyces sp., and some lipase and protease yielding bacteria are used in food, medical leather industries respectively. Moreover, the application of Klebsiella aerogenes and Pseudomonas putida in treatment of contaminated water are also included in this paper. This review article is highly recommendable and helpful for various industries to find out the microbes they need to culture and treat contaminated water.