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Biosurfactants: Greener Surface Active Agents for Sustainable Future

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Microbial surfactants have achieved a significant space in diverse applications in environmental clean-ups, sequestering contaminants such as hydrocarbons, and soil contaminated with heavy metals, as stable food additives, and pharmaceutical formulations because of their biodegradability, stability to the extreme environmental conditions. Although, industrial production of BSs has not been attained stipulated demand due to their low yields and production cost incurred during the bioprocess. The present book chapter took the opportunity to elaborate on the existing experimental strategies that have been implemented to make the BS production cost-effective which includes utilization of the inexpensive agro-industrial residues optimized and effective bioprocesses and hyper-producer strains developed using metabolic engineering and recombinant tools. The necessities for next-generation novel hyper-producer BS producing strains should be under the following lines, extension of substrate spectrum, increased metabolic flux specific to the substrates, low-level of by-products generation, and better bioprocess control. Recombinant/mutant strain with enhanced yields may be a tool to decrease substrate price and improve productivities sufficiently so that in due course a point is attained, where commercial production of BS develops economically viable. Soon, BS may be efficiently on a large scale as greener amphiphiles.

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