**Author details**

Girish Nair1 , Suresh Selvapuram Sudalaimuthu Raja2 and Ramasamy Vijayakumar2 \*

1 Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

2 Department of Microbiology, Government Arts and Science College (Formerly Bharathidasan University Constituent College), Perambalur, India

\*Address all correspondence to: rvijayakumar1979@gmail.com

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*Introductory Chapter: Secondary Metabolites - An Overview DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104234*
