Phage therapy for environmental biotechnology applications.

ABSTRACT: Environmental compartments, from soils and crop rhizospheres, to bio-reactors and municipal water networks have emerged as dynamic hot-spots for antimicrobial-resistance evolution and dissemination. Bacteriophages offer a precision, self-amplifying alternative to conventional biocides, yet their environmental deployment, intellectual-property space and commercial readiness remain only partially charted. Here, we critically synthesize the past decade of progress in phage-based interventions across three sectors: (i) soil remediation and crop-protection interfaces, where multi-phage cocktails suppress wilt- and blight-causing pathogens while preserving beneficial microbiota; (ii) biofuel and petro-energy infrastructures, in which lytic phages mitigate the microbiologically influenced corrosi

SUBMITTER: Singh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12442427 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature