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The concerns of environmentally sound pest control are increasingly leading to the search for microorganisms that can be used as antagonists against so-called harmful insects or whose metabolic products are suitable as new active substances. Biotechnology and environmental protection includes biological pest control as well as the design of new chemicals i.e. study structure-activity relationship/predictability of degradation and to create degradable alternatives to current chemicals. Product-integrated environmental protection and process comparison is discussed: Biotechnical versus chemical-technical processes. The potential of biofuels to function as substitute on the energy market were discussed: Bioethanol biodiesel, biomass-to-liquid fuel. In addition, the production of electricity and hydrogen by microorganisms is described.

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    Walter Reineke

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Reineke, W., Schlömann, M. (2023). Biotechnology and Environmental Protection. In: Environmental Microbiology. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66547-3_18

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