Microbial Secondary Metabolites and Biotechnology

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, biotechnologies (biotools, bioprocesses, omics, etc.) have been behind ground-breaking innovations in novel or active compounds for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, or food industries. From this perspective, microbes, as cell factories, have not yet delivered their full potential to further enrich the field of possibilities.

This Microorganisms research topic will offer deep insights into the latest developments of research dedicated to microbial biotechnology providing bio-based components and especially secondary metabolites.

Thus, this topic will appeal to researchers interested in the screening of active or useful novel bioproducts or in microbes’ metabolic investigations, as well as OMIC sciences dedicated to microbial biotechnologies. Promising or unexplored fermentations, production process optimization, as well as microbial industrial technologies can also be part of this Special Issue.

These findings will provide a foundation to enlarge the current exploitation of the metabolic diversity in bacteria, fungi, microalgae or viruses, and, thus, boost innovations in white biotech and related areas, through improving the large-scale production of microbial compounds.

Dr. Mireille Fouillaud
Prof. Dr. Laurent Dufossé
Guest Editors

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