Recent advances in microbial consortia present a valuable approach for expanding the
scope of metabolic engineering. Systems biology enable thorough understanding of diverse …

Burkholderia is an important bacterial species which has different beneficial effects, such as
promoting the plant growth, including rhizosphere competence for the secretion of …

Red yeast rice (RYR), a Chinese traditional folk medicine produced by the fermentation of
cooked rice kernels with a Monascaceae mold, Monascus purpureus, has long been used to …

Lovastatin, composed of secondary metabolites produced by filamentous fungi, is the most
frequently used drug for hypercholesterolemia treatment due to the fact that lovastatin is a …

Monascus purpureus red pigments were produced in submerged cultivations employing
sugarcane bagasse (SB) as carbon source in combination with various nitrogen sources …

In the present study, the effects of culture medium and temperature on red pigment
production and mycelia growth were evaluated. The maximum red pigment production was …

Ability of two strains of Aspergillus terreus (ATCC 74135 and ATCC 20542) for production of
lovastatin in solid state fermentation (SSF) using rice straw (RS) and oil palm frond (OPF) …

The fungus Aspergillus (A.) terreus has dominated the biological production of the
“blockbuster” drugs known as statins. The statins are a class of drugs that inhibit HMG-CoA …

A mutant Monascus purpureus strain, M183, which produced monascus pigments (MPs) at
8460 U/g via solid-state batch-fermentation, was generated using the atmospheric and room …

In this study, various grains such as rice, millet, corn, barley and wheat were used as raw
materials for monacolin K production by solid-state fermentation of Monascus ruber. Among …