The sustainability revolution is the defining challenge of our time to meet increasing needs
in the energy− food− water nexus without compromising the ability of next generations. To …

With the exhaustion of fossil fuels and with the environmental issues they pose, utilization of
abundant lignocellulosic biomass as a feedstock for biofuels and bio-based chemicals has …

The past decade has seen significant government and private investment in fundamental
research and process development for the production of biofuels and chemicals from …

Highlights•Synthetic microbial co-cultures are potential robust and resilient catalysts for bio-
based processes.•Tailor-made microbial co-cultures increase the possibilities to convert …

Prospecting macroalgae (seaweeds) as feedstocks for bioconversion into biofuels and
commodity chemical compounds is limited primarily by the availability of tractable …

Microbial consortia have been used in biotechnology processes, including fermentation,
waste treatment, and agriculture, for millennia. Today, synthetic biologists are increasingly …

The use of microbial consortia for bioprocessing has been limited by our ability to reliably
control community composition and function simultaneously. Recent advances in synthetic …

Fermentation of plant biomass by microbes like Clostridium phytofermentans recycles
carbon globally and can make biofuels from inedible feedstocks. We analyzed C …

To study the potential effects of increased biofuel use, we evaluated six representative
analyses of fuel ethanol. Studies that reported negative net energy incorrectly ignored …

Microbial consortia are capable of surviving diverse conditions through the formation of
synergistic population‐level structures, such as stromatolites, microbial mats and biofilms …