Meyer, Vera 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2298-2258, Basenko, Evelina Y ORCID: 0000-0001-8611-5447, Benz, J Philipp ORCID: 0000-0001-5361-4514, Braus, Gerhard H ORCID: 0000-0002-3117-5626, Caddick, Mark X ORCID: 0000-0002-5489-6557, Csukai, Michael ORCID: 0000-0003-0615-7802, de Vries, Ronald P ORCID: 0000-0002-4363-1123, Endy, Drew ORCID: 0000-0001-6952-8098, Frisvad, Jens C ORCID: 0000-0002-0573-4340, Gunde-Cimerman, Nina ORCID: 0000-0002-9464-3263 et al (show 17 more authors)
(2020)
Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper.
Fungal biology and biotechnology, 7 (1).
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Abstract
Fungi have the ability to transform organic materials into a rich and diverse set of useful products and provide distinct opportunities for tackling the urgent challenges before all humans. Fungal biotechnology can advance the transition from our petroleum-based economy into a bio-based circular economy and has the ability to sustainably produce resilient sources of food, feed, chemicals, fuels, textiles, and materials for construction, automotive and transportation industries, for furniture and beyond. Fungal biotechnology offers solutions for securing, stabilizing and enhancing the food supply for a growing human population, while simultaneously lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Fungal biotechnology has, thus, the potential to make a significant contribution to climate change mitigation and meeting the United Nation's sustainable development goals through the rational improvement of new and established fungal cell factories. The White Paper presented here is the result of the 2nd Think Tank meeting held by the EUROFUNG consortium in Berlin in October 2019. This paper highlights discussions on current opportunities and research challenges in fungal biotechnology and aims to inform scientists, educators, the general public, industrial stakeholders and policymakers about the current fungal biotech revolution.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2021 09:37 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 21:28 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40694-020-00095-z |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3138566 |
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