Third-generation biorefineries as the means to produce fuels and chemicals from CO2

Z Liu, K Wang, Y Chen, T Tan, J Nielsen - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Concerns regarding petroleum depletion and global climate change caused by greenhouse
gas emissions have spurred interest in renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. Third …

Emerging technologies in algal biotechnology: toward the establishment of a sustainable, algae-based bioeconomy

M Fabris, RM Abbriano, M Pernice… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mankind has recognized the value of land plants as renewable sources of food, medicine,
and materials for millennia. Throughout human history, agricultural methods were …

Cell-free chemoenzymatic starch synthesis from carbon dioxide

T Cai, H Sun, J Qiao, L Zhu, F Zhang, J Zhang, Z Tang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Starches, a storage form of carbohydrates, are a major source of calories in the human diet
and a primary feedstock for bioindustry. We report a chemical-biochemical hybrid pathway …

Metabolic engineering strategies to enable microbial utilization of C1 feedstocks

W Jiang, D Hernández Villamor, H Peng… - Nature Chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract One-carbon (C1) substrates are preferred feedstocks for the biomanufacturing
industry and have recently gained attention owing to their natural abundance, low …

The industrial yeast Pichia pastoris is converted from a heterotroph into an autotroph capable of growth on CO2

T Gassler, M Sauer, B Gasser, M Egermeier… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is widely used in the manufacture of industrial
enzymes and pharmaceuticals. Like most biotechnological production hosts, P. pastoris is …

Recent progress in genetically modified microalgae for enhanced carbon dioxide sequestration

B Barati, K Zeng, J Baeyens, S Wang, M Addy… - Biomass and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions has been a hot research topic in recent years.
The integration of microalgae cultivation using CO 2 from power plants and factories has …

Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

DR Ort, SS Merchant, J Alric, A Barkan… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The world's crop productivity is stagnating whereas population growth, rising affluence, and
mandates for biofuels put increasing demands on agriculture. Meanwhile, demand for …

[HTML][HTML] Meeting the global food demand of the future by engineering crop photosynthesis and yield potential

SP Long, A Marshall-Colon, XG Zhu - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Increase in demand for our primary foodstuffs is outstripping increase in yields, an
expanding gap that indicates large potential food shortages by mid-century. This comes at a …

Physiological limitations and opportunities in microbial metabolic engineering

J Montaño López, L Duran, JL Avalos - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic engineering can have a pivotal role in increasing the environmental sustainability
of the transportation and chemical manufacturing sectors. The field has already developed …

Light-driven CO2 sequestration in Escherichia coli to achieve theoretical yield of chemicals

G Hu, Z Li, D Ma, C Ye, L Zhang, C Gao, L Liu… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
CO2 sequestration engineering is an attractive strategy for achieving carbon-and energy-
efficient bioproduction. However, the efficiency of heterotrophic CO2 sequestration is limited …