Microbes and Their Products for Sustainable Human Life, 2nd Edition

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Dear Colleagues, 

This Topic is a continuation of the previous successful Topic “Microbes and Their Products for Sustainable Human Life” (https://www.mdpi.com/topics/C4M59NQ22R).

Microbes are omnipresent and are able to survive and continuously evolve with the changing environment. The majority of microbes are beneficial for humans and nature, and a fraction of microbes are considered to be pathogens. Understanding the world of microbes is important to mitigate their dangerous effects and harness their potential for human health, food security, sustainable energy sources to tackle climate change. Microbes are an integral part of human life, and they are used to produce various food products through fermentation. Microbial products such as polyhydroxyalkanoates and exopolysaccharides have great potential in the health sector. Microbes are also used to improve crop yields and productivity. Infectious diseases are a major cause of death around the globe. Almost one third of drugs (antibiotics, cholesterol-lowering, and anticancer medicines) are produced using microbes. A large amount of wastewater and organic waste is generated through industrial and household activities and contributes to environmental pollution; the use of microbes in waste treatment is an eco-friendly method that enables resource recovery and the production of valuable products such as lipids, hydrogen, polymers, etc. Microbes also have a direct role in the valorization of waste into bioenergy, performing anaerobic digestion, dark fermentation, and photo fermentation. Considering the beneficial role that microbes play in human health and sustainability as well as the recent advances in microbes and their product-related research, this Special Issue seeks to organize a series of review and research articles that cover the following topics:

• Advances in cultured and uncultured microbes’ isolation and characterization.
• Microbial fermentative products and metabolites as prebiotics/probiotics and food.
• Role of microbes in the biotransformation and synthesis of valuable chemicals.
• Microbial enzyme production and characterization for valuable biochemical production.
• Microbe-derived material (polysaccharides and exopolysaccharides) production and applications.
• Microbe-mediated synthesis of nanomaterials and their application.
• Resource recovery from waste and production of valuables.
• Microbes in advanced biofuel production.

Dr. Shashi Kant Bhatia
Dr. Ranjit Gurav
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
International Journal of Molecular Sciences ijms	4.9	9.0	2000	20.5 Days	CHF 2900	Submit
Energies energies	3.2	7.3	2008	16.2 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Biomolecules biomolecules	4.8	9.2	2011	19.4 Days	CHF 2700	Submit
Foods foods	5.1	8.7	2012	14.9 Days	CHF 2900	Submit
Applied Microbiology applmicrobiol	-	2.8	2021	13.3 Days	CHF 1200	Submit
Polymers polymers	4.9	9.7	2009	14 Days	CHF 2700	Submit

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