Amino Acid Production Processes.- Metabolic Engineering of Glutamate Production.- Biotechnological Manufacture of Lysine.- The Threonine Story.- Economic Aspects of Amino Acids Production.This review series covers trends in modern biotechnology. All aspects of this interdisciplinary technology, where knowledge, methods and expertise are required from chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, chemical engineering and computer science, are treated. Electronic version available at http://link.springer.de/series/abe/Springer Book Archives