Define microbes in industrial product

Production on an industrial scale, requires growing microbes in very large vessels called fermenters

Beverages, antibiotics, enzymes are some of the industrial products produced by microbes.

Fermented beverages

• Microbes are used for the production of beverages like wine, beer, whiskey, brandy or rum.
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is used for the production of fermented beverages.
• Malted cereals and fruit juices are fermented by S.cerevisiae to produce ethanol.
• Wine and beer are produced without distillation.
• Whisky, brandy and rum are produced by distillation of the fermented broth.

Antibiotics

• Antibiotics are the chemical substances which are produced by some microbes and can kill or stop the growth the growth of other microbes.
• Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin obtained from Penicillium notatum which was the first antibiotic to be discovered.
• Alexander Fleming while working on Staphylococci bacteria observed a mould growing in one of his unwashed culture plates around which Staphylococci could not grow and he found out that it was due to a chemical produced by Penicillium notatum.
• Antibiotics are used against the deadly diseases like plague, whooping cough, leprosy, malaria etc.