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Food Synthetic Biology

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With environmental pollution and population growth, the traditional food industry faces enormous challenges regarding a safe, nutritious, and sustainable food supply. Therefore, it is crucial to urgently solve how to develop novel resources to provide healthier and sustainable human food. The emergence of synthetic biology has brought a turning point toward solving the above issues.

The effective combination of food science and synthetic biology, which can be termed “food synthetic biology”, is not only an important technology to break through the existing problems of food safety and nutrition, but also the primary method to overcome the unsustainability problems challenging to be solved by the traditional food technology. Food synthetic biology allows us to produce foods or improve their function using programmed food cell factories, engineered microbial consortia, or the cell-free biosynthesis platform.

In this special issue, a series of articles in this field are presented, providing a state-of-the-art view of synthetic biology for food or food ingredients. On behalf of the journal editors, we hope that this special issue will become an essential resource for future research and that you will enjoy this special issue.

This collection was curated by the Editor in Chief from articles that also appear in the journal's issues. The journal’s standard peer review policy applies here. If an article was also included in a special issue of the journal, please see the instruction for authors for the special issue peer review policy.

Editors

  • Long Liu Long Liu  &

    Long Liu

    Professor, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, China. His key research interests are: synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, genetic circuits, metabolic models, nutraceuticals bioproduction, etc.

  • Jian Chen Jian Chen

    Jian Chen

    Professor, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, China. His key research interests are: fermentation engineering and environmental biotechnology.

Articles (12 in this collection)