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Enzymes Used in Food and Textile Technologies takes into account different types of enzymes used in the food industries and textile industries. It also consists of enzymes from extreme environments, production and function of industrial lipases in food and agro-industries. It provides the reader with basic knowledge of enzymes so as to signify the role of certain enzymes in food and textile industries and to analyze the functions and applications of industrial lipases and fungal laccases. This book also discusses about production, function, and applications of fungal laccases in food processing, the role of microbial aspartic protease enzyme in food and beverage industries, the enzymatic decolorization of textile dyes by the immobilized polyphenol oxidase from quince leaves and microbial biotreatment of actual textile wastewater in a continuous sequential rice husk biofilter and the microbial community involved.