Since the industrial revolution, the rapid growth and development of global industries have
depended largely upon the utilization of coal-derived chemicals, and more recently, the …

Epidemic obesity and diabetes encouraged the changes in population lifestyle and
consumers' food products awareness. Food industry has responded people's demand by …

Biomass can be classified broadly as all the matter on the earth's surface of recent biological
origin. 1 Biomass includes plant materials such as trees, grasses, agricultural crops, algal …

Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen with many desirable industrial biocatalyst
characteristics. In this review, we will discuss work to develop Z. mobilis as a model system …

Biosynthesis of liquid fuels and biomass-based building block chemicals from
microorganisms have been regarded as a competitive alternative route to traditional …

Water kefir is a fermented beverage often produced in a household setting through the
inoculation of a microbial community (water kefir grains) into a sugar rich solution. To date, a …

In view of the huge application potential of gluconic acid and its derivatives, this manuscript
critically reviews literature of the last thirty years on evolution of production processes of this …

Gluconic acid (GA) is a multifunctional carbonic acid regarded as a bulk chemical in the
food, feed, beverage, textile, pharmaceutical, and construction industries. The favored …

Sorbitol, a polyol found in many fruits, is of increasing industrial interest as a sweetener,
humectant, texturizer and softener. At present, it is produced chemically. The bacterium …

Zymomonas mobilis is a unique bacterium in the microbial world, and offers a number of
advantages over the existing ethanol‐producing microorganisms. Being a prokaryote, it is …