Microalgae are aquatic photosynthetic microorganisms able to transform carbon dioxide into biochemicals that can later be processed into biofuels, food, feed and high-value bioactive compounds [ 1].
A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a device that uses microorganisms as biocatalysts to transform chemical energy or light energy into electricity.
In recent years, there has been an increasing research interest in microorganisms that are able to transform the highly toxic and water-soluble chromium (VI) to the less toxic and insoluble chromium (III) or remove chromium (VI) by adsorption.
In summary, the ruminal steroids concentration was affected by forage type and quality, and the rumen microorganisms exhibited great ability to transform P4 into testosterone and ADD, depending on incubation time and initial P4 addition level, suggesting that the host might affect the metabolism of its rumen microorganisms via the endogenous steroids.
The goal of this work was to determine if the introduction of the ethanol during flushing impacted the activities (and indirectly, their ability to transform residual contaminant) of the microorganisms present in the Sages site soil.
The pioneering work of Liao and co-workers demonstrated that it was possible to transform glucose into isobutanol using engineered microorganisms (Atsumi et al. 2008; Atsumi and Liao 2008; Connor and Liao 2009; Gronenberg et al. 2013).
Bioremediation is an efficient technique which utilizes the metabolic potential of microorganisms to degrade and transform of PAHs compound to non-toxic compound with less input of chemicals, energy and time (Haritash and Kaushik 2009; Adenipekun et al. 2012).
An oleaginous fungus, Mortierella isabellina, able to transform efficiently sugar to storage lipid, was used as a model microorganism which develops a biofilm structure during the semi-solid fermentation process for the production of biodiesel from sweet sorghum.
On the other hand, intestinal microorganisms ( Couteau 2001 ; Monteiro 2007 ) and other lactic acid bacteria ( Guglielmetti 2008 ) were shown to be able to transform chlorogenic acids into caffeic and quinic acids by cinnamoyl esterase.
