1. Aspergillus : a cell factory with unlimited prospects / Markus R.M. Fiedler, Benjamin M. Nitsche, Franziska Wanka and Vera Meyer -- 2. Industrial production of organic acids by fungi : state of the art and opportunities / An Li and Peter Punt -- 3. Microbial enzyme technology in baked cereal foods / Deborah Waters -- 4. Recent developments on amylase production by fermentation using agroindustrial residues as substrates / Juliana M. Gasparotto, Rodrigo Klaic, Jessica M. Moscon, Daniel P. Chielle, Fabiane M. Stringhini, Gabrielly V. Ribeiro, Luiz J. Visioli, Paulo R.S. Salbego and Marcio A. Mazut -- 5. Recent developments and industrial perspectives in the microbial production of bioflavors / Gustavo Molina, Juliano L. Bicas, Erica A. Moraes, Mario R. Marostica-JR and Glaucia M. Pastore -- 6. Engineering applied to the wine fermentation industry / Francisco Lopez, Alejandra Urtubia Urbina and Jose Ricardo Perez-Correa -- 7. Applications of plant growth-promoting bacteria for plant and soil systems / M.L.E. Reed and Bernard R. Glick -- 8. Engineering of microbes for plant and soil systems / Kieran J. Germaine, Martina McGuinness and David N. Dowling -- 9. Engineering the rhizosphere for agricultural and environmental sustainability / Melanie M. Paulin and Martin Filion -- 10. Microbial engineering for developing stress tolerance cultivars : an innovative approach / Vijai K. Gupta, Lallan P. Yadava, Anthonia O' Donovan, Gauri D. Sharma, Maria G. Tuohy and Sanjiv K. Maheshwari -- 11. The potent pharmacological mushroom fomes fomentarius : cultivation processes and biotechnological uses / Mohamed Neifar, Atef Jaouani and Semia Elouz Chaabouni -- 12. Amazonian microorganisms with metabolites of ecological and economic importance / Luiz Antonio de Oliveira -- 13. Heavy metal niches : microbes and their metabolic potentials / Chih-Ching Chien -- 14. Sophorolipids : production, characterization and biologic activity / Isabel A. Ribeiro, Matilde F. Castro and Maria H. Ribeiro -- 15. Issues in algal biofuels for fuelling the future / Ravichandra Potumarthi and Rama Raju Baadhe -- 16. The forefront of low-cost and high-volume open microalgae biofuel production / Navid R. Moheimani, Mark P. McHenry and Karne de Boer -- 17. Biobutanol: an important biofuel and bio-product / Jamie A. Hestekin, Alexander M. Lopez, Edgar C. Clausen and Thomas M. Potts.