Microorganisms and Their Incredible Potential to Face Societal Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

There are billions of microorganisms on Earth, and they have been around for a very long time. Humans rely on microorganisms’ capacities in many aspects of their daily life. Indeed, microbes are well known for their abilities to improve our nutrition through increasing the digestibility of foods or through the production of vitamins. They are also fully involved in depollution processes and in the production of natural medicines as antibiotics or anticancer agents, and they even participate in the esthetic dimension of life with the synthesis of colored molecules. This is mainly due to their incredible capacities of adaptation and biotransformation, which are based on their great genetic potential and diverse biosynthetic pathways. A societal evolution toward a sustainable circular bioeconomy is underway. Thus, we have the duty to enlarge our knowledge on the potentialities of the microbial world and on how microbes can help to address the various urgent problems society is currently facing. Therefore, studies concerning innovative microbial biotechnologies, novel microbial biosynthesis pathways, or the bioproduction of original molecules are of great interest in this Topical Collection.

Dr. Mireille Fouillaud
Collection Editor

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