Eight Up-Coming Biotech Tools to Combat Climate Crisis
- Autor(en)
- Werner Fuchs, Lydia Rachbauer, Simon K-M R Rittmann, Günther Bochmann, Doris Ribitsch, Franziska Steger
- Abstrakt
Biotechnology has a high potential to substantially contribute to a low-carbon society. Several green processes are already well established, utilizing the unique capacity of living cells or their instruments. Beyond that, the authors believe that there are new biotechnological procedures in the pipeline which have the momentum to add to this ongoing change in our economy. Eight promising biotechnology tools were selected by the authors as potentially impactful game changers: (i) the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway, (ii) carbonic anhydrase, (iii) cutinase, (iv) methanogens, (v) electro-microbiology, (vi) hydrogenase, (vii) cellulosome and, (viii) nitrogenase. Some of them are fairly new and are explored predominantly in science labs. Others have been around for decades, however, with new scientific groundwork that may rigorously expand their roles. In the current paper, the authors summarize the latest state of research on these eight selected tools and the status of their practical implementation. We bring forward our arguments on why we consider these processes real game changers.
- Organisation(en)
- Department für Funktionelle und Evolutionäre Ökologie
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), acib – Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology
- Journal
- Microorganisms
- Band
- 11
- ISSN
- 2076-2607
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11061514
- Publikationsdatum
- 06-2023
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 208003 Umweltbiotechnologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Microbiology (medical), Virology, Microbiology
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 7 – Bezahlbare und saubere Energie, SDG 13 – Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/5843c63b-2d2e-44c3-81d1-84e1bcba4294