Bioproducts from White Biotechnology – A Review

Abstract White biotechnology refers to the utilization of microorganisms or biomasses for the production of value added products from renewable sources. This technology provides useful and valuable products in numerous sectors and industries such as the food, pharmaceutical, agricultural sectors and lots more. Biotechnology is the manipulation of living organisms or their components for the production of products that are of useful importance to life. The vast metabolic diversities of microorganisms especially fungi, yeast, and bacteria can be utilized to produce various useful industrial products. There is a wide range of applications of biotechnology, and the uses of colours have been developed to differentiate the main areas of applications of biotechnology. The description white is used to differentiate industrial biotechnology, green is used to signify agricultural biotechnology, blue is used for marine and fresh-water biotechnology, red is designated for use in medicine and in pharmaceuticals, purple is used for patents and inventions and recently, yellow is used for insect biotechnology. This paper reviews the production of various bio products using white biotechnology. Keywords: White biotechnology, Microorganisms, Biotechnology, Industry, Colours