Development and Utilization of Yeast Resources, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 2341
Special Issue Editor
Interests: yeast; synthetic biology; metabolic engineering; biofuels; organic acids; genome mining
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Dear Colleagues,
Yeasts are simple and single cellular fungi that are widely distributed and have been widely used in various traditional industries. Yeasts are also being investigated as microbial cell factories in novel applications in medicine, agriculture, and biorefinery of lignocellulosic biomass. Among various yeasts, budding yeast is efficient to ferment sugars into alcohol, and has been used in the production of wine, beer, beverage and biofuels. In recent years, non-conventional yeasts, such as Yarrowia lipolytica, Kluyveromyces marxianus, Komagataella phaffii (also known as Pichia pastoris) have emerged as attracting cell factories to produce organic acids, natural products from plants, vaccines and antibodies. The development of yeast strains benefits not only their applications but also the discovery of novel mechanisms that provide a basis for studying other more complicated eukaryotic systems, including human being. In the past few years, great progress has been made in the characterization of novel yeast species or strains, metabolic engineering and genome editing of yeasts, as well as exploration of both wild yeasts and engineered yeast strains in various applications. In this special issue, we would like to present valuable latest findings in the development and utilization of yeast resources. Both dedicated review and research articles are welcome for the special issue. We welcome articles related but not limited to the following contents:
- Yeast diversity and its potential in industrial applications;
- Advanced technologies for the development of yeast strains;
- Metabolic engineering of yeast strains for bioproduction;
- Synthetic biology and artificial intelligence of yeast host.
We wish that this special issue contributes to summarizing the latest progress in the related fields, which would promote the utilization of yeast resources for efficient biological manufacturing.
Prof. Dr. Xin-Qing Zhao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- yeast diversity
- metabolic engineering
- gene editing
- synthetic biology
- cell factory
- artificial intelligence
- lignocellulosic
- biomass
- biofuels
- biorefinery
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