The below mentioned article provides a note on microbial biotechnology.
Biotechnology is the application of living organisms and their products in industrial processes on large scale. Microbial biotechnology is that aspect of biotechnology which involves the use of microorganisms or their products.
Microbial biotechnology is sometimes also referred to as industrial microbiology which is an old field that has been given new dimensions because of the discoveries made in the field of genetic engineering in vitro manipulation of DNA molecules to generate new combinations of genes or sequences, to place the gene under the control of different regulatory systems, to introduce a specific mutation in a molecule, etc