Exploring and Designing Novel Microbes for Biotechnology
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 April 2021) | Viewed by 13851
Special Issue Editors
Interests: algal and plant metabolism, algal and plant terpenoid metabolism; algae and plant molecular biology and genetics; algal strain engineering; algal biotechnology; synthetic biology; metabolic engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The transition from fossil-based production to more sustainable, bio-based manufacturing practices greatly depends on the capacity of organisms to provide a broad spectrum of products at large scale. Microbial-based bioproduction is a long sought goal, as it would offer low-cost cultivation requirements, specific metabolic advantages, and sustainability. The yet unexplored vast diversity of microbes contains features and traits that could offer novel biological solutions to industrial needs. Advancements in molecular biology, genetic engineering and sequencing technologies are increasingly aimed at new, non-model organisms, which are expected to fill these gaps.
The aim of this Special Issue is the investigation of novel natural and engineered traits that could have industrial potential in non-model organisms, including genomics, genetic engineering and synthetic biology efforts.
This issue will provide a timely collection on new fundamental and applied knowledge that is expected to foster and advance the industrial exploitation of microorganisms for bioproduction.
Dr. Michele Fabris
Dr. Raffaela Abbriano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Novel microbial traits
- Genomics
- Functional genetics
- Enzyme characterisation
- Genome sequencing
- Metabolism
- Synthetic biology
- Metabolic engineering
- Bioproduction
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