Aaliyah Raquel Gutierrez-Cano, Bryce Jones, Jordan Macario, Sofia Martin, Derrick Cardenas, Hannah Simpson, Kyria Boundy-Mills, Meredith Claire Edwards
{"title":"Characterization of pectinase-producing Saccharomyces cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448 and its effects on cull peach fermentations.","authors":"Aaliyah Raquel Gutierrez-Cano, Bryce Jones, Jordan Macario, Sofia Martin, Derrick Cardenas, Hannah Simpson, Kyria Boundy-Mills, Meredith Claire Edwards","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae037","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuae037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fermentation of pectin-rich biomass by Saccharomyces cerevisiae can produce bioethanol as a fuel replacement to combat carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels. Saccharomyces cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448 produces its own pectinase enzymes potentially eliminating the need for commercial pectinases during fermentation. This research assessed growth, pectinase activity, and fermentative activity of S. cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448 and compared its performance to an industrial yeast strain, S. cerevisiae XR122N. Saccharomyces cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448's growth was inhibited by osmotic stress (xylose concentrations above 1 M), ethanol concentrations greater than 5% v/v, and temperatures outside of 30°C-37°C. However, S. cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448 was able to consistently grow in an industrial pH range (3-6). It was able to metabolize glucose, sucrose, and fructose but was unable to metabolize arabinose, xylose, and galacturonic acid. The pectinase enzyme produced by S. cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448 was active under typical fermentation conditions (35°C-37°C, pH 5.0). Regardless of S. cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448's limitations when compared to S. cerevisiae XR122N in 15% w/v peach fermentations, S. cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448 was still able to achieve maximum ethanol yields in the absence of commercial pectinases (44.7 ± 3.1 g/L). Under the same conditions, S. cerevisiae XR122N produced 39.5 ± 3.1 g/L ethanol. While S. cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448 may not currently be optimized for industrial fermentations, it is a step toward a consolidated bioprocessing approach to fermentation of pectin-rich biomass.</p><p><strong>One-sentence summary: </strong>Saccharomyces cerevisiae UCDFST 09-448 demonstrates the potential to ferment pectin-rich biomass as part of a consolidated bioprocess, but is sensitive to industrial stressors.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11523634/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142467552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Onyinye Okonkwo, Chang Dou, Ethan Oksen, Akash Narani, Wilian Marcondes, Xiaowen Chen, Joonhoon Kim, Yuqian Gao, Meagan C Burnet, Bobbie-Jo M Webb-Robertson, Brenton C Poirier, Deepti Tanjore, Jon K Magnuson, Nathalie Munoz Munoz, James Gardner
{"title":"Corn stover variability drives differences in bisabolene production by engineered Rhodotorula toruloides.","authors":"Onyinye Okonkwo, Chang Dou, Ethan Oksen, Akash Narani, Wilian Marcondes, Xiaowen Chen, Joonhoon Kim, Yuqian Gao, Meagan C Burnet, Bobbie-Jo M Webb-Robertson, Brenton C Poirier, Deepti Tanjore, Jon K Magnuson, Nathalie Munoz Munoz, James Gardner","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae034","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuae034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microbial conversion of lignocellulosic biomass represents an alternative route for production of biofuels and bioproducts. While researchers have mostly focused on engineering strains such as Rhodotorula toruloides for better bisabolene production as a sustainable aviation fuel, less is known about the impact of the feedstock heterogeneity on bisabolene production. Critical material attributes like feedstock composition, nutritional content, and inhibitory compounds can all influence bioconversion. Further, the given feedstocks can have a marked influence on selection of suitable pretreatment and hydrolysis technologies, optimizing the fermentation conditions, and possibly even modifying the microorganism's metabolic pathways, to better utilize the available feedstock. This work aimed to examine and understand how variations in corn stover batches, anatomical fractions, and storage conditions impact the efficiency of bisabolene production by R. toruloides. All of these represent different facets of feedstock heterogeneity. Deacetylation, mechanical refining, and enzymatic hydrolysis of these variable feedstocks served as the basis of this research. The resulting hydrolysates were converted to bisabolene via fermentation, a sustainable aviation fuel precursor, using an engineered R. toruloides strain. This study showed that different sources of feedstock heterogeneity can influence microbial growth and product titer in counterintuitive ways, as revealed through global analysis of protein expression. The maximum bisabolene produced by R. toruloides was on the stalk fraction of corn stover hydrolysate (8.89 ± 0.47 g/L). Further, proteomics analysis comparing the protein expression between the anatomic fractions showed that proteins relating to carbohydrate metabolism, energy production, and conversion as well as inorganic ion transport metabolism were either significantly upregulated or downregulated. Specifically, downregulation of proteins related to the iron-sulfur cluster in stalk fraction suggests a coordinated response by R. toruloides to maintain overall metabolic balance, and this was corroborated by the concentration of iron in the feedstocks.</p><p><strong>One-sentence summary: </strong>This study elucidates the effects of different sources of corn stover on bisabolene production by engineered Rhodotorula toruloides, highlighting the importance of understanding feedstock variability to enhance bioprocess efficiency and economic outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11467694/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142348233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin Ingham, Katherine Hollywood, Phavit Wongsirichot, Alistair Veitch, James Winterburn
{"title":"Uncovering the fragmentation and separation characteristics of sophorolipid biosurfactants with LC-MS-ESI.","authors":"Benjamin Ingham, Katherine Hollywood, Phavit Wongsirichot, Alistair Veitch, James Winterburn","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae035","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuae035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The application of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (MS) is a challenging area of research for structural identification of sophorolipids, owing to the large number of possible variations in structure and limited knowledge on the separation and fragmentation characteristics of the variants. The aims of this work was to provide a comprehensive analysis of the expected characteristics and fragmentation patterns of a wide range of sophorolipid biosurfactant congeners, providing a methodology and process alongside freely available data to inform and enable future research of commercial or novel sophorolipids. Samples of acidic and lactonic sophorolipid standards were tested using reverse-phase ultra-high performance liquid chromatography and identified using electrospray ionization MS. 37 sophorolipid variants were identified and compared for their elution order and fragmentation pattern under MS/MS. The retention time of sophorolipids was increased by the presence of lactonization, unsaturation, chain length, and acetylation as hydrophobic interactions with the C18 stationary phase increased. A key finding that acidic forms can elute later than lactonic variants was obtained when the fatty acid length and unsaturation and acetylation are altered, in contradiction to previous literature statements. Fragmentation pathways were determined for lactonic and acidic variants under negative [M-H]- and positive [M+NH4]+ ionization, and unique patterns/pathways were identified to help determine the structural components present. The first publicly available database of chromatograms and MS2 spectra has been made available to aid in the identification of sophorolipid components and provide a reliable dataset to accelerate future research into novel sophorolipids and shorten the time to innovation.</p><p><strong>One-sentence summary: </strong>This article describes the process and challenges in identifying different structures of eco-friendly biosurfactants, providing a novel database to compare results.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484030/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142348235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Łukasz Wysocki, Patrycja Adamczuk, Paula Bardadyn, Anna Gabor, Karolina Jelonek, Monika Kudelska, Maksymilian Kukuć, Adrianna Piasek, Marta Pietras, Monika Słomka, Zoja Trojan, Wiktoria Tybulczuk, Anna Sobiepanek, Joanna Żylińska-Urban, Joanna Cieśla
{"title":"Development of lactic acid production from coffee grounds hydrolysate by fermentation with Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus.","authors":"Łukasz Wysocki, Patrycja Adamczuk, Paula Bardadyn, Anna Gabor, Karolina Jelonek, Monika Kudelska, Maksymilian Kukuć, Adrianna Piasek, Marta Pietras, Monika Słomka, Zoja Trojan, Wiktoria Tybulczuk, Anna Sobiepanek, Joanna Żylińska-Urban, Joanna Cieśla","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae032","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuae032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spent coffee grounds (SCG) are commercial waste that are still rich in numerous valuable ingredients and can be further processed into useful products such as coffee oil, antioxidant extract, lactic acid, and lignin. The challenge and innovation is to develop the SCG processing technology, maximizing the use of raw material and minimizing the use of other resources within the sequential process. The presented research is focused on the aspect of biotechnological production of lactic acid from SCG by using the Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus strain isolated from the environment. Thanks to the optimization of the processes of acid hydrolysis, neutralization, enzymatic hydrolysis of SCG, and fermentation, the obtained concentration of lactic acid was increased after 72 hr of culture from the initial 4.60 g/l to 48.6 g/l. In addition, the whole process has been improved, taking into account the dependence on other processes within the complete SCG biorefinery, economy, energy, and waste aspects. Costly enzymatic hydrolysis was completely eliminated, and it was proven that supplementation of SCG hydrolysate with expensive yeast extract can be replaced by cheap waste from the agri-food industry.</p><p><strong>One-sentence summary: </strong>A process for efficient lactic acid production from spent coffee grounds using the Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus strain was developed and optimized, including nutrient solution preparation, supplementation and fermentation.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11399779/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142125953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ihtisham Ul Haq, Sajida Maryam, Divine Y Shyntum, Taj A Khan, Fan Li
{"title":"Exploring the frontiers of therapeutic breadth of antifungal peptides: A new avenue in antifungal drugs.","authors":"Ihtisham Ul Haq, Sajida Maryam, Divine Y Shyntum, Taj A Khan, Fan Li","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae018","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuae018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The growing prevalence of fungal infections alongside rising resistance to antifungal drugs poses a significant challenge to public health safety. At the close of the 2000s, major pharmaceutical firms began to scale back on antimicrobial research due to repeated setbacks and diminished economic gains, leaving only smaller companies and research labs to pursue new antifungal solutions. Among various natural sources explored for novel antifungal compounds, antifungal peptides (AFPs) emerge as particularly promising. Despite their potential, AFPs receive less focus than their antibacterial counterparts. These peptides have been sourced extensively from nature, including plants, animals, insects, and especially bacteria and fungi. Furthermore, with advancements in recombinant biotechnology and computational biology, AFPs can also be synthesized in lab settings, facilitating peptide production. AFPs are noted for their wide-ranging efficacy, in vitro and in vivo safety, and ability to combat biofilms. They are distinguished by their high specificity, minimal toxicity to cells, and reduced likelihood of resistance development. This review aims to comprehensively cover AFPs, including their sources-both natural and synthetic-their antifungal and biofilm-fighting capabilities in laboratory and real-world settings, their action mechanisms, and the current status of AFP research.</p><p><strong>One-sentence summary: </strong>This comprehensive review of AFPs will be helpful for further research in antifungal research.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11119867/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140861537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moriel J Dror, Joshua Misa, Danielle A Yee, Angela M Chu, Rachel K Yu, Bradley B Chan, Lauren S Aoyama, Anjali P Chaparala, Sarah E O'Connor, Yi Tang
{"title":"Engineered biosynthesis of plant heteroyohimbine and corynantheine alkaloids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.","authors":"Moriel J Dror, Joshua Misa, Danielle A Yee, Angela M Chu, Rachel K Yu, Bradley B Chan, Lauren S Aoyama, Anjali P Chaparala, Sarah E O'Connor, Yi Tang","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuad047","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuad047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Monoterpene indole alkaloids (MIAs) are a class of natural products comprised of thousands of structurally unique bioactive compounds with significant therapeutic values. Due to difficulties associated with isolation from native plant species and organic synthesis of these structurally complex molecules, microbial production of MIAs using engineered hosts are highly desired. In this work, we report the engineering of fully integrated Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains that allow de novo access to strictosidine, the universal precursor to thousands of MIAs at 30-40 mg/L. The optimization efforts were based on a previously reported yeast strain that is engineered to produce high titers of the monoterpene precursor geraniol through compartmentalization of mevalonate pathway in the mitochondria. Our approaches here included the use of CRISPR-dCas9 interference to identify mitochondria diphosphate transporters that negatively impact the titer of the monoterpene, followed by genetic inactivation; the overexpression of transcriptional regulators that increase cellular respiration and mitochondria biogenesis. Strain construction included the strategic integration of genes encoding both MIA biosynthetic and accessory enzymes into the genome under a variety of constitutive and inducible promoters. Following successful de novo production of strictosidine, complex alkaloids belonging to heteroyohimbine and corynantheine families were reconstituted in the host with introduction of additional downstream enzymes. We demonstrate that the serpentine/alstonine pair can be produced at ∼5 mg/L titer, while corynantheidine, the precursor to mitragynine can be produced at ∼1 mg/L titer. Feeding of halogenated tryptamine led to the biosynthesis of analogs of alkaloids in both families. Collectively, our yeast strain represents an excellent starting point to further engineer biosynthetic bottlenecks in this pathway and to access additional MIAs and analogs through microbial fermentation.</p><p><strong>One sentence summary: </strong>An Saccharomyces cerevisiae-based microbial platform was developed for the biosynthesis of monoterpene indole alkaloids, including the universal precursor strictosidine and further modified heteroyohimbine and corynantheidine alkaloids.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10995622/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138885046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amit K Jha, Daniella V Martinez, Estevan J Martinez, Jay E Salinas, Michael S Kent, Oleg Davydovich
{"title":"Discovery and adaptation of microbes that degrade oxidized low-density polyethylene films.","authors":"Amit K Jha, Daniella V Martinez, Estevan J Martinez, Jay E Salinas, Michael S Kent, Oleg Davydovich","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae050","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuae050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a growing interest in developing a methodology for effectively cleaving carbon-carbon (C-C) bonds in polymer backbones through bioconversion processes that utilize microorganisms and their enzymes. This upsurge of interest is driven by the goal of achieving a circular economy. Polyolefin post-consumer plastics are a substantial source of carbon, but the recycling potential is severely limited. Upcycling routes are needed for converting polyolefin post-consumer plastics into value-added products while concurrently mitigating adverse environmental effects. These materials contain carbon-based chemicals that can, in principle, serve as the feedstock for microbial metabolism. Some microbes have been reported to grow on polyolefin plastics, but the rate of biodegradation is insufficient for industrial processes. In this study, low-density polyethylene (LDPE) films were subjected to two mild ozone-based oxidation treatments, which facilitated biodegradation. The degree of oxidation was determined by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy via analysis of the carbonyl index (1,710/1,460 cm-1), which ranged from 0.3 to 2.0, and also via analysis of the carboxylic acid content. Following oxidation of the films, studies were conducted to investigate the ability of a panel of polyvinyl alcohol-degrading microbes to degrade the oxidized films. A defined minimal medium was used to cultivate and assess microbial growth on the oxidized films. Following 45 days of cultivation, the most effective strains were further cultivated up to three additional generations on the oxidized film substrates to improve their ability to degrade the oxidized LDPE films. After these enrichments, we identified a strain from the third generation of Pseudomonas sp. Rh926 that exhibited significant cell growth and reduced the oxidized LDPE film mass by 25% in 30 days, demonstrating an enhanced capacity for degrading the oxidized LDPE films.</p><p><strong>One-sentence summary: </strong>Discovery and adaptation techniques were used to enhance the metabolic capability of microorganisms for increased biodegradation of ozone-oxidized LDPE films as a step toward a future upcycling process.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11664187/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142807491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Characterization and catalytic investigation of fungal single-module nonribosomal peptide synthetase in terpene-amino acid meroterpenoid biosynthesis.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae002","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuae002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":"51 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10845890/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139485729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth Bodie, Zhongqiang Chen, Kirstin Crotty, Cherry Lin, Chuanbin Liu, Sergio Sunux, Michael Ward
{"title":"Evolution and screening of Trichoderma reesei mutants for secreted protein production at elevated temperature.","authors":"Elizabeth Bodie, Zhongqiang Chen, Kirstin Crotty, Cherry Lin, Chuanbin Liu, Sergio Sunux, Michael Ward","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae038","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuae038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei is a mesophilic ascomycete commercially used to produce industrial enzymes for a variety of applications. Strain improvement efforts over many years have resulted not only in more productive hosts, but also in undesirable traits such as the need for lower temperatures to achieve maximum protein secretion rates. Lower fermentation temperatures increase the need for cooling resulting in higher manufacturing costs. We used a droplet-based evolution strategy to increase the protein secretion temperature of a highly productive T. reesei whole cellulase strain from 25°C to 28°C by first isolating an improved mutant and subsequently tracing the causative high-temperature mutation to one gene designated gef1. An industrial host with a gef1 deletion was found to be capable of improved productivity at higher temperature under industrially relevant fermentation conditions.</p><p><strong>One-sentence summary: </strong>High-temperature droplet-based evolution resulted in the identification of a mutation in Trichoderma reesei gef1 enabling high productivity at elevated temperatures.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11566232/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142467553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phytopathological management through bacteriophages: enhancing food security amidst climate change.","authors":"Ihtisham Ul Haq, Mehtab Khan, Imran Khan","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae031","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jimb/kuae031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increasing global population and climate change pose significant challenges to agriculture, particularly in managing plant diseases caused by phytopathogens. Traditional methods, including chemical pesticides and antibiotics, have become less effective due to pathogen resistance and environmental concerns. Phage therapy emerges as a promising alternative, offering a sustainable and precise approach to controlling plant bacterial diseases without harming beneficial soil microorganisms. This review explores the potential of bacteriophages as biocontrol agents, highlighting their specificity, rapid multiplication, and minimal environmental impact. We discuss the historical context, current applications, and prospects of phage therapy in agriculture, emphasizing its role in enhancing crop yield and quality. Additionally, the paper examines the integration of phage therapy with modern agricultural practices and the development phage cocktails and genetically engineered phages to combat resistant pathogens. The findings suggest that phage therapy could revolutionize phytopathological management, contributing to global food security and sustainable agricultural practices.</p><p><strong>One-sentence summary: </strong>The burden of plant diseases and phage-based phytopathological treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11388930/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142108120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}