Rhizobacteria Mediate the Phytotoxicity of a Range of Biorefinery-Relevant Compounds.

ABSTRACT: Advances in engineering biology have expanded the list of renewable compounds that can be produced at scale via biological routes from plant biomass. In most cases, these chemical products have not been evaluated for effects on biological systems, defined in the present study as bioactivity, that may be relevant to their manufacture. For sustainable chemical and fuel production, the industry needs to transition from fossil to renewable carbon sources, resulting in unprecedented expansion in the production and environmental distribution of chemicals used in biomanufacturing. Further, although some chemicals have been assessed for mammalian toxicity, environmental and agricultural hazards are largely unknown. We assessed 6 compounds that are representative of the emerging biofuel and bioprod

SUBMITTER: Herbert RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6711798 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature