Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 321, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124458
Keywords
Circular bioeconomy; Microbial consortia; Biomass; Bioproducts; Microalgae
Funding
- Mexican Science and Technology Council (SEP-CONACYT) [2015-01, 254808]
- Energy Sustainability Fund (CONACYT-SENER), Mexican Centre for Innovation in Bio-energy (CEMIE-Bio), Cluster of Bioalcohols [249564, 2014-05]
- National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT, Mexico) [750752]
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Microbial co-cultures or consortia, formed from different species or strains, have various technological applications such as food production, wastewater treatment, and environmental recovery. Understanding the communication mechanisms within these systems is crucial for designing sustainable biorefinery platforms to produce biofuels and high value compounds through biomass transformation.
The microbial co-cultures or consortia are a natural set of microorganisms formed from different species or the same species but different strains, in which members can interact with each other. The co-culture systems have wide variety of technological applications such as the production of foods, treatment of wastewater, removal of toxic substances, environmental recovery, and all these without the need to work in sterile conditions. Therefore, the need of understanding communication mechanisms between cell-to-cell within co-culture will allow to construct and to program their biological behavior from the use of complex substrates to produce biocompounds. The technology of co-culture systems enables the development of biorefinery platforms to obtain biofuels, and high value compounds through biomass transformation by sustainable process. This review focuses on understanding the roles of consortia microbial to design and built co-culture systems to produce high value compounds in terms a sustainable biorefinery.
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