The state discusses the fact that microorganisms are one of the most important and widespread representatives of their nature and that they are of great importance not only in the processes of decomposition, but also in the muscular, medical, ecological and food spheres. In recent years, special attention in science and practice has been attracted by pigment-producing microorganisms, antioxidant and antibacterial pigments have the potential for wide application in pharmaceuticals.

Pigment, industry, medicine, ecology, food industry, antioxidant and antibacterial drug, Rifampicin, Prodigiosin.

Madigan, M. T., Bender, K. S., Buckley, D. H., Suttley, W. M., & Stahl, D. A. (2018). Brock Microbiology (15th ed.). Pearson Education.

– Detailed information on the basic microbiology and pigment synthesis processes in microorganisms.

Shank, E. A. and Coulter, R. (2009). New developments in interspecies microbial signaling. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 12(2), 205–214.

– The importance of pigments in interbacterial signaling is highlighted.

Dufosse, L. (2006). Microbial Production of Food Pigments. Food Technology and Biotechnology, 44(3), 313–321.

– On microbial pigments used in food processing.

Joshi, V. K., Attri, D., Bala, A., and Bhushan, S. (2003). Microbial Pigments. Indian Journal of Biotechnology, 2(3), 362–369.

– Indian scientists have studied the types of microorganisms that produce pigments.

Velmurugan, P., Lee, Y.S., and Cho, M. (2010). Bioprospecting of microbial pigments: Applications and prospects. Biotechnology and biotechnological engineering, 15(4), 540–551.

– An analytical article on the industrial application of microbiological pigments.

Litvinova, N.A., Suslova, T.I. (2014). Microbial pigments in biotechnology. Bulletin of Moscow State University of Technology named after K.G. Razumovsky, 2(22), 62–68.

– Biotechnological production of microbiological pigments is covered in Russian.

Otaev, H.H., Rustamov, I.A. (2017). Microbiology. Tashkent: Publishing House of the National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan.

– A book on basic microbiology written by local authors.

Ahmed, S.A., and Mostafa, M.M. (2014). Production of natural pigments by Monascus purpureus. International Journal of Advanced Research, 2(12), 927–939.

– The pigment synthesis properties of Monascus fungus were analyzed.

Raja, R., Hemaiswarya, S., and Rengasamy, R. (2007). Use of Dunaliella for β-carotene production. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 74, 517–523.

– On the extraction methods of pigments from microalgae.

Sanchez, C. et al. (2010). Microbial pigments: Current status and future prospects. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 30(2), 127–144.

– An analytical article devoted to the potential of pigments in industry, medicine and ecology.