Highlights•Yeasts possess ideal and favorable bioprocessing traits.•The field is diversifying
beyond ethanol and Saccharomyces.•Metabolic engineering efforts enable new value …

A variety of yeast species have been considered ideal hosts for metabolic engineering to
produce value-added chemicals, including the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae …

The traditional use of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in alcoholic fermentation has,
over time, resulted in substantial accumulated knowledge concerning genetics, physiology …

Microbial production of chemicals and proteins from biomass-derived and waste sugar
streams is a rapidly growing area of research and development. While the model yeast …

Microorganisms are effective platforms for the production of a variety of chemicals including
biofuels, commodity chemicals, polymers and other natural products. However, deep cellular …

Metabolic engineering is the enabling science of development of efficient cell factories for
the production of fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food ingredients through microbial …

Microbial production of fuels and chemicals from renewable carbohydrate feedstocks offers
sustainable and economically attractive alternatives to their petroleum-based production …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the preferred microorganism for the production of bioethanol
from biomass. Industrial strain development for first-generation ethanol from sugar cane and …

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the oldest and most frequently used
microorganisms in biotechnology with successful applications in the production of both bulk …

The increasing fossil fuel scarcity has led to an urgent need to develop alternative fuels.
Currently microorganisms have been extensively used for the production of first-generation …