1. Diversity of Industrially Relevant Microbes -- 2. Microbial Technology and Biotechnology -- 3. Fermentation Technology -- 4. Agricultural Applications of Microbes -- 5. Environment and Microbes -- 6. Microbes in Food Industry -- 7. Microbes in Production of Commodity Chemicals -- 8. Microbes in Production of fine Chemicals -- 9. Microbial Enzymes and their Industrial Applications -- 10. Strategies of Strain Improvement of Industrial Microbes -- 11. Vaccines and their Production -- 12. Immobilization and Biosensors.