Actinobacteria constitute a highly diverse bacterial phylum with an unrivalled metabolic
versatility. They produce most of the clinically used antibiotics and a plethora of other natural …

Antimicrobial resistance is considered a major public-health issue. Policies recommended
by the World Health Organization (WHO) include research on new antibiotics. No new class …

Environmental biotechnology offers several promising techniques for the rehabilitation of
polluted environments. The modern industrialized world presents novel challenges to the …

Natural products have been a rich source of compounds for drug discovery. However, their
use has diminished in the past two decades, in part because of technical barriers to …

It is envisaged that the utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for ethanol production for
transport sector, would make cellulases the most demanded industrial enzyme. The greatest …

Starting with the earliest Streptomyces genome sequences, the promise of natural product
genome mining has been captivating: genomics and bioinformatics would transform …

Reclamation of pesticide-polluted lands has long been a difficult endeavour. The use of
synthetic pesticides could not be restricted due to rising agricultural demand. Pesticide …

A wide variety of enzymatic pathways that produce specialized metabolites in bacteria, fungi
and plants are known to be encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters. Information about these …

Natural product libraries contain specialized metabolites derived from plants, animals, and
microorganisms that play a pivotal role in drug discovery due to their immense structural …

Covering: through 2014 Many organisms team up with microbes for defense against
predators, parasites, parasitoids, or pathogens. Here we review the described protective …