Aroma compounds provide attractiveness and variety to alcoholic beverages. We discuss
the molecular biology of a major subset of beer aroma volatiles, fruity and floral compounds …

In the first wave of synthetic biology, genetic elements, combined into simple circuits, are
used to control individual cellular functions. In the second wave of synthetic biology, the …

Synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are being extensively used in agriculture in order to
increase food production to feed the rapidly growing world population. This has negatively …

Terpenoid flavor and fragrance compounds are of high interest to the aroma industry.
Microbial production offers an alternative sustainable access to the desired terpenoids …

Covering: 2011–2022 The low amounts of terpenoids produced in plants and the difficulty in
synthesizing these complex structures have stimulated the production of terpenoid …

β-Ionone is a natural plant volatile compound, and it is the 9, 10 and 9′, 10′ cleavage
product of β-carotene by the carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase. β-Ionone is widely …

More than 70,000 different terpenoid structures are known so far; many of them offer highly
interesting applications as pharmaceuticals, flavors and fragrances, or biofuels. Extraction of …

Chemical synthesis is a well established route for producing many chemicals on a large
scale, but some drawbacks still exist in this process, such as unstable intermediates …

Terpenoids are a large class of plant-derived compounds, that constitute the main
components of essential oils and are widely used as natural flavors and fragrances. The …

The heterologous expression of biosynthetic pathways for pharmaceutical or fine chemical
production requires suitable expression hosts and vectors. In eukaryotes, the pathway flux is …