On the basis of a microorganism widely used in industry, an innovative platform for the production of economically relevant chemicals will be created, which - compared to existing systems - allows significantly higher yields and conversion rates. The organism will be able to metabolize lignocellulosic sugars from agricultural waste and convert them into basic and fine chemicals via a novel synthetic metabolic pathway. To this end, the central metabolism is fundamentally altered, thereby enabling a direct coupling of growth and bioproduction. Furthermore, scale-up and product separation processes will be optimized, thus creating industry-relevant conditions. Accompanying analysis of markets, technologies and environmental impacts as well as the involvement of industry representatives guarantee a tailor-made development of processes and products.
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