Engineered living materials for sustainability

B An, Y Wang, Y Huang, X Wang, Y Liu, D Xun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

Toward low-cost biological and hybrid biological/catalytic conversion of cellulosic biomass to fuels

LR Lynd, GT Beckham, AM Guss… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Developing economically viable, scalable, and sustainable technologies for the conversion
of lignocellulosic polysaccharides to liquid fuels is widely seen as a centerpiece of the …

Engineering microbial division of labor for plastic upcycling

T Bao, Y Qian, Y Xin, JJ Collins, T Lu - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Plastic pollution is rapidly increasing worldwide, causing adverse impacts on the
environment, wildlife and human health. One tempting solution to this crisis is upcycling …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiome as a key player in sustainable agriculture and human health

J Suman, A Rakshit, SD Ogireddy, S Singh… - Frontiers in Soil …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The aggregate of microorganisms in the soil environment is a microbiome that emerged as a
vital component of sustainable agriculture in the recent past. These beneficial …

Revisiting plant–microbe interactions and microbial consortia application for enhancing sustainable agriculture: a review

K Vishwakarma, N Kumar, C Shandilya… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The present scenario of agricultural sector is dependent hugely on the use of chemical-
based fertilizers and pesticides that impact the nutritional quality, health status, and …

Synthetic biology tools to engineer microbial communities for biotechnology

NS McCarty, R Ledesma-Amaro - Trends in biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
Microbial consortia have been used in biotechnology processes, including fermentation,
waste treatment, and agriculture, for millennia. Today, synthetic biologists are increasingly …

A metabolic modeling platform for the computation of microbial ecosystems in time and space (COMETS)

I Dukovski, D Bajić, JM Chacón, M Quintin, JCC Vila… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-scale stoichiometric modeling of metabolism has become a standard systems
biology tool for modeling cellular physiology and growth. Extensions of this approach are …

Advances in the human skin microbiota and its roles in cutaneous diseases

Y Yang, L Qu, I Mijakovic, Y Wei - Microbial Cell Factories, 2022 - Springer
Skin is the largest organ in the human body, and the interplay between the environment
factors and human skin leads to some skin diseases, such as acne, psoriasis, and atopic …

The chemistry of plant–microbe interactions in the rhizosphere and the potential for metabolomics to reveal signaling related to defense priming and induced systemic …

MI Mhlongo, LA Piater, NE Madala… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Plant roots communicate with microbes in a sophisticated manner through chemical
communication within the rhizosphere, thereby leading to biofilm formation of beneficial …

Biotechnological basis of microbial consortia for the removal of pesticides from the environment

P Bhatt, K Bhatt, A Sharma, W Zhang… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The application of microbial strains as axenic cultures has frequently been employed in a
diverse range of sectors. In the natural environment, microbes exist as multispecies and …