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PUBLICATION | 2024

Strengthening the 2018 EU Bioeconomy Strategy through Microbiome Analysis and Synthetic Microbial Consortia Technologies

The 2018 EU Bioeconomy Strategy aims to create a sustainable, circular, and low-emissions economy, based on the use of renewable biological resources. The strategy focuses on the development of new biobased...

PUBLICATION | 2023

Unmixed blessing - Researchers are closing in on the long-sought goal of creating high-yielding hybrid crops that can be propagated indefinitely, without sex

‘Game changer.’ Scientists are genetically engineering crops to clone themselves.

PUBLICATION | 2022

Report of the expert meeting on food safety for seaweed – Current status and future perspectives

The world production of marine macroalgae, or seaweed, has more than tripled since the turn of the millennium, increasing from 10.6 million tonnes in 2000 to 32.4 million tonnes in 2018. Increased...

PUBLICATION | 2022

Biodegradable microplastic increases CO2 emission and alters microbial biomass and bacterial community composition in different soil types

Plastic input to the terrestrial environment is of global concern and the still increasing production and release worldwide reinforces this problem. It has been shown that microplastics (MPs) can...

PUBLICATION | 2022

Engineering Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Duckweed (Lemna japonica)

Duckweeds are amongst the fastest growing of higher plants, making them attractive high-biomass targets for biofuel feedstock production. Their fronds have high rates...

PUBLICATION | 2022

Biodegradation of renewable polyurethane foams in marine environments occurs through depolymerization by marine microorganisms

Accumulation of plastics in the Earth's oceans is causing widespread disruption to marine ecosystems. To help mitigate the environmental burden caused by non-degradable plastics, we have previously developed...

PUBLICATION | 2022

Chem-Bio interface design for rapid conversion of CO2 to bioplastics in an integrated system

Integrating catalytic CO 2 reduction with bioconversion could substantially advance carbon capture and utilization and mitigate climate change. However, the state-of-the-arts are limited by inefficient...

PUBLICATION | 2022

Defending Earth’s terrestrial microbiome

Microbial life represents the majority of Earth’s biodiversity. Across disparate disciplines from medicine to forestry, scientists continue to discover how the microbiome drives essential, macro-scale processes...

PUBLICATION | 2021

Calling for a systems approach in microbiome research and innovation

Microbiomes are all around us in natural and cultivated ecosystems, for example, soils, plants, animals and our own body. Microbiomes are essential players of biotechnological...

PUBLICATION | 2022

Microbiome Research as an Effective Driver of Success Stories in Agrifood Systems – A Selection of Case Studies

Increasing knowledge of the microbiome has led to significant advancements in the agrifood system. Case studies based on microbiome applications have been reported worldwide and, in this review...

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