Title:Advances in Strain Engineering for Improved Bio-fuel Production- a Perspective
VOLUME: 7 ISSUE: 1
Author(s):Supriya Ratnaparkhe* and Milind B. Ratnaparkhe
Affiliation:Indore Biotech Inputs and Research Pvt. Limited, Indore-453556, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore-452001
Abstract:Bio-fuels are ecologically sustainable alternates of fossil fuel and have attracted interest of research
community in the last few decades. Microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi and microalgae have important
roles to play at various steps of bio-fuel production. And therefore several efforts such as genetic engineering
have been made to improve the performance of these microbes to achieve the desired results. Metabolic engineering
of organisms has benefitted immensely from the novel tools and technologies that have recently been
developed. Microorganisms have the advantage of smaller and less complex genome and hence are best suitable
for genetic manipulations. In this perspective, we briefly review a few interesting studies which represent
some recent advances in the field of metabolic engineering of microbes.
