Highlights•Corynebacterium glutamicum has been used for many applications beyond
amino acids.•Economical, high-quality genome assemblies foster development of non-type …

Cigar is made of a typical fermented tobacco where the microbiota inhabits within an
alkaline environment. Our current understanding on cigar fermentation is far from thorough …

Flavonoids and stilbenoids, crucial secondary metabolites abundant in plants and fungi,
display diverse biological and pharmaceutical activities, including potent antioxidant, anti …

Arginine repressor (ArgR 1864) is a multifunctional regulator in Thermoanaerobacterium
aotearoense SCUT27 (SCUT27). For better understanding its function in SCUT27, the …

Efficient co‐utilization of mixed sugar feedstocks remains a biomanufacturing challenge,
thus motivating ongoing efforts to engineer microbes for improved conversion of glucose …

Background Fatty acid-derived products such as fatty alcohols (FAL) find growing
application in cosmetic products, lubricants, or biofuels. So far, FAL are primarily produced …

Background Lignocellulosic resources are promising feedstocks for the manufacture of bio-
based products and bioenergy. However, the inherent recalcitrance of biomass to …

Lignocellulosics are abundant carbon sources in nature, therefore they gain increasing
attention in biotechnology for production of value-added chemicals. In this proof-of-concept …

Combustion of liquid fossil fuels for transportation is a major source of carbon emissions
only partially offset by the incumbent renewable alternatives─ biodiesel, renewable diesel …

Plants constitute one of the largest sources of natural products (NPs) whose biological
activities have been exploited by humans for agronomic, cosmetic or pharmacological …