Engineering anaerobic fungal-bacterial consortia for direct conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into medium-chain fatty acids
Byung-Chul Kim, Elaina M. Blair, Joel P. Howard, Ian Mateus Gois, Robert Flick, Thomas S. Lankiewicz, Stephen James Mondo, Jasmyn L. Pangilinan, Anna Lipzen, Jie Qiang Guo, Hope N. Hundley, Raymond Lee, Jayson Talag, Victoria Mae Bunting, Shanmugam Rajasekar, , Christopher E. Lawson
This study engineers an anaerobic fungal-bacterial consortium to convert lignocellulosic biomass into medium-chain fatty acids without pretreatment, achieving a 21.0% conversion yield.
Trends in biotechnology · Oct 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioengineering