Role of Microorganisms and Their Metabolites in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: 3rd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 2558
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Interests: bacteriophages in food industry; non-thermal food processing; food microbiology; food safety; Alicyclobacillus spp. in beverage industry
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Dear Colleagues,
Even though people have been using microorganisms for thousands of years, they still surprise us with their possibilities.
The production of fermented foods is one of the oldest food processing technologies and has been known since ancient times. Nowadays, microorganisms are used in the production of foods not only as a strategy for food preservation but also for improving specific characteristics, such as flavor, aroma, texture and digestibility.
The antagonistic activity of microorganisms is widely used, both in biological plant protection to reduce environmental degradation due to the widespread use of fungicides and against food-borne pathogens to prevent disease.
In turn, the ability of microorganisms to adsorb, accumulate and degrade common and emerging pollutants has attracted the use of biological resources in treating contaminated food, feed and the environment.
This Special Issue will attempt to shed light on the molecular aspects and enhance the current research in the field of new high-throughput technologies, such as genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics and metabolomics, allowing a more thorough description of the microbial constituents of the different environments.
As volume 2 of the Special Issue “Role of Microorganisms and Their Metabolites in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: 2nd Edition” was successful, we reopen this issue again in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms, ISSN 1422-0067, IF 4.9, JCR Category Q1). This third Special Issue, “Role of Microorganisms and Their Metabolites in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: 3rd Edition”, welcomes original manuscripts and review articles addressing this hot topic.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Sokolowska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fermentation
- biopreservation
- biocontrol
- biodegradation
- bioremediation
- bioaugmentation
- omic-technologies
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Related Special Issues
- Role of Microorganisms and Their Metabolites in Agriculture, Food and the Environment in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (11 articles)
- Role of Microorganisms and Their Metabolites in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: 2nd Edition in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (9 articles)
