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Microbial production of organic acids: expanding the markets.

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Through analysis of the current advances in production of citric, lactic and succinic acid production, guidelines for future developments in this fast-moving field are presented.
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This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2008-02-01. It has received 750 citations till now.

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Technology development for the production of biobased products from biorefinery carbohydrates—the US Department of Energy’s “Top 10” revisited

TL;DR: An updated evaluation of potential target structures using similar selection methodology, and an overview of the technology developments that led to the inclusion of a given compound are presented.
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Perspectives of plant-associated microbes in heavy metal phytoremediation.

TL;DR: How such processes influence heavy metal uptake through various biogeochemical processes including translocation, transformation, chelation, immobilization, solubilization, precipitation, volatilization and complexation of heavy metals ultimately facilitating phytoremediation is illustrated.
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Adaptive laboratory evolution – principles and applications for biotechnology

TL;DR: The current status and its future perspectives highlight the importance and potential of adaptive laboratory evolution as approach in biotechnological engineering.
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Beyond Petrochemicals: The Renewable Chemicals Industry

TL;DR: This Essay argues for the production of select chemicals, thereby effectively replacing petroleum, as an efficient use and illustrates some of the current efforts that are made in the chemical industry towards adoption of biomass as a feedstock.
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An efficient succinic acid production process in a metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum strain

TL;DR: A Corynebacterium glutamicum strain (ΔldhA-pCRA717) that overexpresses the pyc gene encoding pyruvate carboxylase while simultaneously exhibiting a disrupted ldhA gene encoding l-lactate dehydrogenase was investigated in detail for succinic acid production.
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The path forward for biofuels and biomaterials

TL;DR: The integration of agroenergy crops and biorefinery manufacturing technologies offers the potential for the development of sustainable biopower and biomaterials that will lead to a new manufacturing paradigm.
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Top Value Added Chemicals from Biomass: Volume I -- Results of Screening for Potential Candidates from Sugars and Synthesis Gas

Todd A Werpy, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified twelve building block chemicals that can be produced from sugar via biological or chemical conversions, and the twelve building blocks can be subsequently converted to a number of high-value bio-based chemicals or materials.
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An Overview of Polylactides as Packaging Materials

TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to review the production techniques for PLAs, summarize the main properties of PLA and to delineate the main advantages and disadvantages of PLA as a polymeric packaging material.
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Genome sequencing and analysis of the versatile cell factory Aspergillus niger CBS 513.88

Herman Jan Pel, +70 more
- 01 Feb 2007 - 
TL;DR: The filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger is widely exploited by the fermentation industry for the production of enzymes and organic acids, particularly citric acid, and the sequenced genome revealed a large number of major facilitator superfamily transporters and fungal zinc binuclear cluster transcription factors.
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Biotechnology of succinic acid production and markets for derived industrial products

TL;DR: Succinic acid, derived from fermentation of agricultural carbohydrates, has a specialty chemical market in industries producing food and pharmaceutical products, surfactants and detergents, green solvents and biodegradable plastics, and ingredients to stimulate animal and plant growth.
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