Throughout immeasurable time, microorganisms evolved and accumulated remarkable
physiological and functional heterogeneity, and now constitute the major reserve for genetic …

Microorganisms are found throughout every corner of nature, and vast number of
microorganisms is difficult to cultivate by classical microbiological techniques. The advent of …

Traditional use of enzymes for food processing and production of food ingredients resulted
in fast‐growing enzyme industries world over. The advances in technologies gave rise to …

Microbial enzymes have many known applications as biocatalysts. However, only a few of
them are currently employed for biocatalysis even though an annotated collection of more …

Recent progress has revealed that the capture of genetic resources of complex microbial
communities in metagenome libraries allows the discovery of a richness of new enzymatic …

Microorganisms are the most abundant and widely spread organisms on earth. They
colonize a huge variety of natural and anthropogenic environments, including very …

In the transition to the post-petroleum economy, there is a growing demand for novel
enzymes with high process performances to replace traditional chemistry with a more …

Background To efficiently deconstruct recalcitrant plant biomass to fermentable sugars in
industrial processes, biocatalysts of higher performance and lower cost are required. The …

Background Metagenomics approaches provide access to environmental genetic diversity
for biotechnology applications, enabling the discovery of new enzymes and pathways for …

Background Energy shortage has become a global problem. Production of biofuels from
renewable biomass resources is an inevitable trend of sustainable development. Cellulose …