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Microbial Factories for Biofuel Production: Current Trends and Future Prospects

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The rapid depletion of fossil fuels and the increasingly growing global energy demand have paved way to find an alternative energy resource to sustain the energy crisis. Finding a cheaper and an efficient alternative energy resource could presumably be an effective method to minimize the usage of conventional fossil fuels and to combat the problem of increased greenhouse gas deposition which has adverse effects on global climate change. Directly or indirectly microorganisms play an inevitable role in the production of biofuels. The production of biofuels like bioethanol, biodiesel, biogas, and biohydrogen relies on the undeniable involvement of microbes for the conversion of a suitable substrate into a valuable biofuel. Metabolic engineering of microbes is the future of the next-generation biofuel production, which undoubtedly can lead to the engineering of superior-quality biofuel-producing microbial strains. This chapter focuses mainly on the exploitation of microbes as factories for efficient biofuel production and metabolic engineering as an effective tool to qualitatively and quantitatively increase the biofuel yield.

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Christina, E., Rajendran, V. (2021). Microbial Factories for Biofuel Production: Current Trends and Future Prospects. In: Prasad, R., Kumar, V., Singh, J., Upadhyaya, C.P. (eds) Recent Developments in Microbial Technologies. Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4439-2_3

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