Table of Contents

Pathways of Carotenoids Biosynthesis in Bacteria and Microalgae.-Selection and Taxonomic Identification of Carotenoids Producing Marine Actinomycetes.-Isolation, Characterization and Diversity of Novel Radio-tolerant Carotenoids-producing Bacteria.-A Novel Radio-tolerant Astaxanthin Producing Bacterium Reveals a New Astaxanthin Derivative: Astaxanthin Dirhamnoside.-Novel Zeaxanthin Producing Bacteria Isolated from a Radioactive Hot Spring Water.-Novel Approach in the Biosynthesis of Functional Carotenoids in Escherichia coli.-Engineering Escherichia coli for Canthaxanthin and Astaxanthin Biosynthesis.-Analysis of Canthaxanthin Production by Gordonia jacobaea.-Isolation and Light-stimulated Expression of Canthaxanthin and Spirilloxathin Biosynthesis Genes from the Photosynthetic Bacterium Bradyrhizobium sp. Strain ORS278.-Construction of Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathways Through Chromosomal Integration in Methane-Utilizing Bacterium Methylomonas sp. Strain 16a.-Genetic Modification in Bacillus subtilis for Production of C30 Carotenoids.-Carotenoids Production from Halophilic Bacteria.-Construction and Utilization of Carotenoid Reporter Systems: Identification of Chromosomal Integration Sites that Support Suitable Expression of Biosynthetic Genes and Pathways.-Directed Evolution of Carotenoid Synthases for the Production of Unnatural Carotenoids.-A High Throughput Screen for the Identification of Improved Catalytic activity: b-carotene Hydroxylase.-DNA Fingerprinting Intron-sizing Method to Accomplish a Specific,Rapid and Sensitive Identification of Carotenogenic Dunaliella Species.-Ketocarotenoid Biosynthesis in Transgenic Microalgae Expressing a Foreign β-C-4-carotene Oxygenase Gene.-Characterization of Carotenogenesis Genes in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120.-Obtaining Lutein Rich Extract from Microalgal Biomass at Preparative Scale.-NMR-based Isotopologue Profiling of MicrobialCarotenoids.-Analysis of Diapocarotenoids Found in Pigmented Bacillus Species.