Itaconic acid biorefinery

Mattanovich Diethard

Institute of Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology

01.05.2015 - 30.04.2017

Research project (§ 26 & § 27)

Program Produktion der Zukunft - Kooperative F&E-Projekte - Experimentelle Entwicklung

Funder Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Competencies

Nachwachsende Rohstoffe und neue Technologien
Biotechnologie

Abstract

This project aims at the biotechnological upgrading of lignocellulosic sugars to itaconic acid, embedded in a modular strategy for complete utilization of ligneous biomass. This comprises the development of a yeast strain, a fermentation process and a technology for efficient purification of the product. To reach the requested text length of the form this sentence is added.