Advanced Biotechnologies for Sustainable Production of Value-Added Products from Waste Streams

Dear Colleagues,

Biorefinery emerges as an enabling technology to mitigate climate change by reducing our dependence on fossils fuels. It mainly constitutes a technology platform that processes biomass into a variety of chemicals and fuels in a sustainable way. Biotechnology is consistent with principles of green chemistry and remains a focus of research efforts devoted to biomass valorization. However, the current development of biorefinery industry is afflicted by the economic viability of refining processes and the ecological issue of land use. A feasible solution is the continued improvement of biological processes to minimize the production of waste and to facilitate efficient reuse of waste materials other than biomass. Moreover, the implementation of a cascading production scheme is plausible to increase the economic viability of biorefinery. This strategy integrates a network of manufacturing processes for production of value-added products such as enzymes, proteins, chemicals, and antibiotics, followed by production of biofuels. It is evident that biorefinery based on the concept of circular economy now comes on the stage. This Special Issue focuses on the recent development in advanced biotechnologies for efficient production of value-added products from waste streams, including food waste, agricultural waste, fishery waste, industrial waste, biomass-derived waste (e.g. protein waste), and others. The special emphasis is given to the exploration of native and genetically-modified microbes for serving as the manufacturing factory.

Prof. Dr. Yun-Peng Chao
Prof. Dr. Si-Yu Li
Dr. Chung-Jen Chiang
Assoc. Prof. I-Son Ng
Guest Editors

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• Metabolic engineering
• Synthetic biology
• Waste streams valorization
• Sustainable feedstock valorization
• Microbial process
• Biochemical production
• Biofuel production
• Recombinant enzyme production
• Enzymatic synthesis of chemicals
• Biosynthesis of antibiotics