Insight into citric acid: A versatile organic acid

R Reena, R Sindhu, PA Balakumaran, A Pandey… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The citric acid (CA) is an organic acid with a global market value of USD 3.6 billion. Due to
its non-toxic and biodegradable nature, it is widely used in the food industry and various …

Long-term effects of oil contamination on soil quality and metabolic function

YM Polyak, LG Bakina, NV Mayachkina… - Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Widespread soil contamination with oil and the toxicity of petroleum hydrocarbons to soil
biota make it extremely important to study microbial responses to oil stress. Soil metabolites …

Biotic-abiotic mingle in rock varnish formation: A new perspective

AS Chaddha, A Sharma, NK Singh, A Shamsad… - Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Rocks in arid to semi-arid regions all over the world have a naturally occurring coating
called “rock varnish” or “desert varnish” on their surface. These lustrous, black-to-brown …

Metabolic engineering to improve production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid from corn-stover hydrolysate in Aspergillus species

Z Dai, KR Pomraning, S Deng, J Kim… - … for Biofuels and …, 2023 - Springer
Background Fuels and chemicals derived from non-fossil sources are needed to lessen
human impacts on the environment while providing a healthy and growing economy. 3 …

Repurposing anaerobic digestate for economical biomanufacturing and water recovery

S Kumar, R Posmanik, S Spatari, VC Ujor - Applied Microbiology and …, 2022 - Springer
Due to mounting impacts of climate change, particularly increased incidence of drought,
hence water scarcity, it has become imperative to develop new technologies for recovering …

Simulated microgravity accelerates alloy corrosion by Aspergillus sp. via the enhanced production of organic acids

C Jiang, S Yang, D Guo, P Song, G Tian… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Metal corrosion caused by Aspergillus sp. was shown to be significantly enhanced on a
space station, but its mechanism is still unknown. To simulate this on earth, the corrosion …

Fungal organic acid uptake of mineral-derived K is dependent on distance from carbon hotspot

A Bhattacharjee, D Velickovic, JA Richardson… - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fungal mineral weathering regulates the bioavailability of inorganic nutrients from mineral
surfaces to organic matter and increase the bioavailable fraction of nutrients. Such …

Manganese(II) ions suppress the transcription of the citrate exporter encoding gene cexA in Aspergillus niger

A Reinfurt, S Fritsche, V Bíró, A Márton… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Aspergillus niger is an important filamentous fungus used for the industrial production of
citric acid. One of the most important factors that affect citric acid production is the …

Itaconic acid production by Aspergillus terreus from glucose up to pilot scale and from corn stover and wheat straw hydrolysates using new manganese tolerant …

BC Saha, GJ Kennedy, MJ Bowman, N Qureshi… - Biocatalysis and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Itaconic acid (IA), is a versatile platform chemical that is produced by Aspergillus terreus
using glucose as carbon source. Lignocellulosic biomass can be used as a low cost source …

Microbial removal of nutrients from anaerobic digestate: assessing product-coupled and non-product-coupled approaches

E Agyeman-Duah, CC Okonkwo, VC Ujor - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Although anaerobic digestate contains> 90% water, the high nutrient content of digestate
makes it economically and technically intractable to treatment by existing wastewater …