Microorganisms comprise a huge reservoir of resources providing innovative applications
useful to mankind. Microbes are responsible for vital biogeochemical cycling without which
all life on earth would cease. They are key to ecosystem functioning and sustenance of all
life on earth, but all this is possible when we are able to fully tap this resource. Beginning
with the bacterial cell structure, a detailed discussion has been done in the chapter
regarding the methodology involved in the culturing of bacteria. The chapter gives a detailed …