AUTHOR=Jaiswal Durgesh Kumar , Ade Avinash Bapurao , Belwal Tarun , Pereira Arthur PrudĂȘncio De Araujo , Verma Jay Prakash TITLE=Editorial: Microbial co-cultures: a new era of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, volume II JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=Volume 16 - 2025 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1587450 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2025.1587450 ISSN=1664-302X