Human society is increasingly facing environmental challenges in recent years. To cite a few: air, water and soil pollution, extreme weather caused by climate change, and the fossil energy crisis. The need to replace conventional environment polluting technology with green technology has attracted attention from leaders worldwide. Green microbial technology are approaches that use microorganisms as the chassis to achieve the goals as conventional technologies, but with reduced cost, energy consumption and waste production, and through environmentally friendly routes. The diversity of species, versatility of metabolism as well as comparably genetically tractable features of microorganisms make microbial biotechnology a prime candidate to play significant roles in green technology.
Many of the current commercial products like fuels, commodity chemicals, drugs, and materials are produced from fossil fuels and may cause serious environmental pollution. Approaches currently used in waste treatment, metallurgy, and oil recovery are also causing environmental pollution. The integration of green microbial technology into conventional industry or replacement of conventional technology with green microbial technology are promising ways to reform the industrial sectors mentioned above. This research topic will focus on the replacement of current fuels, chemicals, drugs and materials production processes through microbial technologies including: wild-type/genetically engineered microbial cell factories, enzymes produced by microorganisms or cell free systems derived from microorganisms. For example, replacement of conventional ester synthesis (via Fischer esterification) to microbial synthesis or cell free systems derived from microorganisms. Furthermore, the Research Topic will also welcome contribution dealing with the application of green microbial technologies in other conventional industries like metallurgy, oil recovery as for example, enhancement of oil recovery with microbial approaches.
This research topic accepts Original Research, Reviews, and Mini reviews. We will not consider Brief Research Report, Clinical Trial, and Systematic Reviews. We particularly welcome manuscript focusing on but not limited to:
• Engineering of microbial strains for renewable biofuels, biochemicals and drugs production.
• Engineering of microbial strains for material precursors, materials synthesis, or as live materials.
• Production of bioproducts or construction of new industrial processes with rational designed synthetic community.
• Enhancement of fuels, chemicals, or drugs production with microbial based cell free systems.
• Production of fuels, chemicals, or drugs with enzymes produced by microbial cells.
• Development of microbial based cell free systems for low-cost and rapid test of pathogen, virus, or hazards
• Integration microbial based green technologies into traditional industrial sectors (e.g., oil recovery, metallurgy, etc).
Human society is increasingly facing environmental challenges in recent years. To cite a few: air, water and soil pollution, extreme weather caused by climate change, and the fossil energy crisis. The need to replace conventional environment polluting technology with green technology has attracted attention from leaders worldwide. Green microbial technology are approaches that use microorganisms as the chassis to achieve the goals as conventional technologies, but with reduced cost, energy consumption and waste production, and through environmentally friendly routes. The diversity of species, versatility of metabolism as well as comparably genetically tractable features of microorganisms make microbial biotechnology a prime candidate to play significant roles in green technology.
Many of the current commercial products like fuels, commodity chemicals, drugs, and materials are produced from fossil fuels and may cause serious environmental pollution. Approaches currently used in waste treatment, metallurgy, and oil recovery are also causing environmental pollution. The integration of green microbial technology into conventional industry or replacement of conventional technology with green microbial technology are promising ways to reform the industrial sectors mentioned above. This research topic will focus on the replacement of current fuels, chemicals, drugs and materials production processes through microbial technologies including: wild-type/genetically engineered microbial cell factories, enzymes produced by microorganisms or cell free systems derived from microorganisms. For example, replacement of conventional ester synthesis (via Fischer esterification) to microbial synthesis or cell free systems derived from microorganisms. Furthermore, the Research Topic will also welcome contribution dealing with the application of green microbial technologies in other conventional industries like metallurgy, oil recovery as for example, enhancement of oil recovery with microbial approaches.
This research topic accepts Original Research, Reviews, and Mini reviews. We will not consider Brief Research Report, Clinical Trial, and Systematic Reviews. We particularly welcome manuscript focusing on but not limited to:
• Engineering of microbial strains for renewable biofuels, biochemicals and drugs production.
• Engineering of microbial strains for material precursors, materials synthesis, or as live materials.
• Production of bioproducts or construction of new industrial processes with rational designed synthetic community.
• Enhancement of fuels, chemicals, or drugs production with microbial based cell free systems.
• Production of fuels, chemicals, or drugs with enzymes produced by microbial cells.
• Development of microbial based cell free systems for low-cost and rapid test of pathogen, virus, or hazards
• Integration microbial based green technologies into traditional industrial sectors (e.g., oil recovery, metallurgy, etc).
