Strain Selection
Improving Bio-Conversion Process
Strain Selection
for high yield of bio-products
BioDucts has a library of thermophilic bacterias which are screened by our research group to select the most suitable microorganisms for the bio-conversion of the biomass and agro-industrial wastes. It is likely that all the growth requirements are not available in the waste stream and some complex nutrients and possibly some mineral salts are needed for the growth of the selected strains. moreover, a range of pH values are used to determine the optimum pH for the growth of the selected strains, its sugar utilisation and bio-products’ yield (bioethanol and lactic acid).
Identification & Genetic Modification of New Strains
In fermentation of bio-products, the strains must have some important characteristics including:
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Rapid and relevant fermentation ability
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Genetic stability
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Ability to produce high level of bio-products
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Cell viability and tolerance to repeated fermentative cycles and etc.
BioDucts' R&D group has made an effort to improve the efficiency of bio-conversion processes through the isolation of novel strains, well adapted to the Middle Easter countries’ fermentation conditions.
BioDucts’ investigations have meet the challenges in improving the fermentative characteristics of novel and better adapted strains replaced to the previously isolated strains. e.g in bioethanol production, conventional ethanol fermentation processes using yeast can only ferment edible C6 sugars, so only a small fraction of plant materials could be utilised, the rest is waste. Since, the hemicellulosic effluents contain predominantly C5 sugars (pentoses), conventional ethanol fermentation processes can not use these carbohydrates as raw materials. BioDucts’ technology can ferment all edible and non-edible sugars present in biomass. The idea of applying microorganism to the hydrolysis and fermentation of lignocellulosic plant material to obtain bioethanol is not new, what are new in our technology are genetically engineered micro-organisms, its proprietary genetic engineering technology, and its application in a continuously operated high efficiency fermentation process.
