Enzymatic browning because of polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) contributes to the color quality
of fruit and vegetable (FV) products. Physical and chemical methods have been developed …

Fungi are an understudied, biotechnologically valuable group of organisms. Due to the
immense range of habitats that fungi inhabit, and the consequent need to compete against a …

Reductions in crop yields brought about by abiotic stress are expected to increase as
climate change, and other factors, generate harsher environmental conditions in regions …

Recycling of cobalt from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is gaining interest because
they are increasingly used in commercial applications such as electrical vehicles. A common …

Citrus contains a range of highly beneficial bioactive compounds, such as polyphenols,
carotenoids, and vitamins that show antimicrobial and antioxidant properties and help in …

The dairy industry generates excessive amounts of waste and by-products while it gives a
wide range of dairy products. Alternative biotechnological uses of these wastes need to be …

Carboxylic acids such as citric, lactic, succinic and itaconic acids are useful products and are
obtained on large scale by fermentation. This review describes the options for recovering …

Owing to new biotechnological production units mostly located in China, global supply of
citric acid in the course of the last two decades rose from less than 0.5 to more than 2 million …

Microbial citric acid has high economic importance and widely used in beverage, food,
detergents, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. The filamentous fungus Aspergillus …

Biomass can be classified broadly as all the matter on the earth's surface of recent biological
origin. 1 Biomass includes plant materials such as trees, grasses, agricultural crops, algal …