Biosurfactants: potential and eco-friendly material for sustainable agriculture and environmental safety—a review

E Gayathiri, P Prakash, N Karmegam, S Varjani… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the present climate change and increasing world population, there is an urgent need to
discover creative, efficient, and cost-effective natural products for the benefit of humanity …

Microbial biosurfactant: a new frontier for sustainable agriculture and pharmaceutical industries

A Kumar, SK Singh, C Kant, H Verma, D Kumar… - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the current scenario of changing climatic conditions and the rising global population, there
is an urgent need to explore novel, efficient, and economical natural products for the benefit …

Sophorolipids: A comprehensive review on properties and applications

S Pal, N Chatterjee, AK Das, DJ McClements… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sophorolipids are surface-active glycolipids produced by several non-pathogenic yeast
species and are widely used as biosurfactants in several industrial applications …

Biosurfactants in plant protection against diseases: Rhamnolipids and lipopeptides case study

J Crouzet, A Arguelles-Arias… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Biosurfactants are amphiphilic surface-active molecules that are produced by a variety of
microorganisms including fungi and bacteria. Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, and Bacillus …

[HTML][HTML] Production and potential biotechnological applications of microbial surfactants: An overview

AI Adetunji, AO Olaniran - Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial surfactants are amphipathic molecules that consist of hydrophilic and hydrophobic
domains, which allow partition of two fluid phases of varying degree of polarity. They are …

Fungal biosurfactants, from nature to biotechnological product: bioprospection, production and potential applications

AF da Silva, IM Banat, AJ Giachini, D Robl - Bioprocess and Biosystems …, 2021 - Springer
Biosurfactants are in demand by the global market as natural commodities that can be
added to commercial products or use in environmental applications. These biomolecules …

Contributions of glycolipid biosurfactants and glycolipid-modified materials to antimicrobial strategy: a review

Q Shu, H Lou, T Wei, X Liu, Q Chen - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Glycolipid biosurfactants are natural amphiphiles and have gained particular interest
recently in their biodegradability, diversity, and bioactivity. Microbial infection has caused …

From bumblebee to bioeconomy: Recent developments and perspectives for sophorolipid biosynthesis

S Dierickx, M Castelein, J Remmery, V De Clercq… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sophorolipids are biobased compounds produced by the genera Starmerella and
Pseudohyphozyma that gain exponential interest from academic and industrial stakeholders …

Biosurfactants and anti-inflammatory activity: A potential new approach towards COVID-19

MD Subramaniam, D Venkatesan, M Iyer… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has grown to be global public health
emergency. The biosurfactants (BSs) are surface-active biomolecules with unique properties …

Sophorolipids—bio-based antimicrobial formulating agents for applications in food and health

WY Cho, JF Ng, WH Yap, BH Goh - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sophorolipids are well-known glycolipid biosurfactants, produced mainly by non-pathogenic
yeast species such as Candida bombicola with high yield. Its unique environmental …