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Advances in Yeast Biotechnology for Biofuels and Sustainability

Value-Added Products and Environmental Remediation Applications

  • 1st Edition - May 23, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Achlesh Daverey, Kasturi Dutta, Sanket Joshi, Teresa Gea
  • Language: English

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Advances in Yeast Biotechnology for Biofuels and Sustainability: Value-Added Products and Environmental Remediation Applications showcases the uses for engineered yeast in environmental applications, especially as an innovative source of biofuels. Beginning with a thorough review of recent advances and future potential for yeast biotechnology, the book proceeds to outline several options for biofuels, including lignocellulosic biofuels and alternative feedstock production through hydrolysis and alternative value-added products, including industrial acids and bioplastics and applications in agriculture and environmental remediation. Placing case studies at the center of each chapter, this book presents a future-focused perspective on the potential of yeast biotechnologies to support sustainability.

Key features

  • Lays out methods, including multiple options for generating biofuels from engineered yeast and several additional value-added products
  • Presents a wide variety of real-world sustainable applications for engineered yeast, with a focus on biofuels production
  • Provides a selection of case studies in other value-added products and applications, including bioremediation, pollution remediation, and biofertilizers in sustainable agriculture

Readership

Researchers and industry scientists working on biofuels or environmental remediation

Table of contents

Part I: Yeast Biotechnology for the Sustainable Production of Value-Added Products

1. Past, present, and future of yeast engineering

2. Engineered yeasts for biofuel production and platform chemicals

3. Engineered yeasts for lignocellulosic bioethanol production

4. Metabolic engineering of yeast for advanced biofuel production

5. Engineering of non-conventional yeasts for biofuel production

6. Oleaginous yeasts: phylogenetic diversity and strain selection for biodiesel production

7. Waste valorization for biodiesel production by oleaginous yeast

8. Engineered yeast for the hydrolysis of algae: a potential alternative feedstock for biofuel production

Part II: Wild and Engineered Yeasts for Value-Added Products, Environmental Sustainability, and Sustainable Agriculture

9. Yeasts for the production of value-added products, environmental clean-up and sustainable agriculture

10. Cleaner production of biosurfactants from yeasts

11. Biotechnological approaches to enhance the production of fungal enzymes in yeasts

12. Cleaner production of industrial acids from yeast biotechnology

13. Engineered yeast for the production of bioplastics

14. Yeast biomass as adsorbent for pollutants remediation

15. Biodegradation of azo dyes by yeasts

16. Bioremediation of oil-contaminated soil by yeast bioaugmentation

17. Engineered yeasts as biocatalyst for pesticide degradation

18. Bioremediation of heavy metals using yeasts

19. Engineered yeast as hyperaccumulator for heavy metal recycling and environmental clean-up

20. Yeasts as biofertilizers and biocontrol agents for sustainable agriculture

21. Yeast-plant interactions for phytoremediation of contaminated soils

22. Role of genetically engineered yeast in plastic degradation

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 25, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Achlesh Daverey

Dr. Achlesh Daverey is working as an Assistant Professor in School of Environment and Natural Resources at Doon University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He has completed his M. Tech. in Bioprocess Technology from Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) Mumbai, India in 2006 and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), Assam, India in 2011. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Institute of Environmental Engineering at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan before joining Doon University. He is serving as Editorial Board Member of SN Applied Sciences (Springer) and Review Editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Environmental Science and Frontiers in Microbiology journals. His area of research includes biological wastewater treatment, anammox, phytoremediation of contaminated soil and water, waste valorization, and bioprocess design and optimization. Dr. Daverey has published 32 research papers in various internationally reputed journals and contributed 7 chapters in edited books (published by Elsevier, Springer, McGraw-Hill, American Society for Civil Engineers).
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Doon University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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Kasturi Dutta

Dr. Kasturi Dutta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. Her recent research focused on the production of industrial and therapeutic enzymes from low-cost industrial wastes or by-products, and the production of biodiesel from microbial lipids by utilizing wastes and wastewater. Dr. Dutta has published > 25 research papers and book chapters in peer-reviewed international journals (SCI/SCOPUS indexed) and edited books. She has served as guest editor for various journals such as International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation (Elsevier); Biocatalysts and Agriculture Biotechnology (Elsevier); Ecotoxicology (Springer), SN Applied Sciences (Springer); and Environmental Quality Management (Wiley). Dr. Dutta has also organized two international conference of a biannual conference series “International Conference on Bioprocess for Sustainable Energy and Environment”.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India

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Sanket Joshi

Dr. Sanket Joshi is currently a Professor at the Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Rajasthan, India. He has academic teaching and research experience of about 16 years, and industrial R&D experience of about 4 years in India and Oman. While working in Indian pharma companies, he undertook several turnkey projects. His current research interests encompass energy (In-situ/ex-situ microbial enhanced light/heavy oil recovery; chemical enhanced oil Recovery; biofuels), microbial products (biosurfactants, biopolymers, R&D and scale-up), and environmental bioremediation (crude oil pollution; analysis, mitigation and control of souring by Sulfate reducing bacteria; HPAM contaminated sites). He has about 125 scientific publications in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and two books to his credit. He is an Academic/Associate Editor for: Frontiers in Microbiology, PeerJ, Ecotoxicology (Springer), Petroleum Science and Technology (Springer), Biotech (Springer), and Open Biotechnology Journal; guest editor for Frontiers in Microbiology, Sustainability, Scientifica, and Open Biotechnology Journal.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Rajasthan, India

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Teresa Gea

Teresa Gea is a full Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research combines applied research with a more exploratory facet, searching for new bioconversion processes for the development of the circular bioeconomy. Without abandoning composting and anaerobic digestion processes, her activity evolved into a new research line in solid-state fermentation, with the aim of obtaining a greater recovery of organic waste, beyond compost and biogas. She has studied the production of hydrolytic enzymes, biopesticides and biosurfactants using different microbiological approaches. She has published > 60 papers and her h-index is 26, with >2100 citations, and an average over 250 citations / year in the last 3 years. She has participated in 9 national projects, a European H2020 project, and in numerous contracts with companies and administrations. She has been teaching on Environmental Technology, Sustainability, Bioremediation, Waste Management, and Chemical Engineering for more than 20 years.
Affiliations and expertise
Engineering School, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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