bioproducts
Bioproducts are materials, chemicals, and energy derived from biological sources, including plants, algae, and microorganisms. In plant science, this field explores how crops and other plant species can be engineered or optimized to serve as sustainable feedstocks for producing fuels, pharmaceuticals, biodegradable plastics, and industrial chemicals. Research in this area is central to developing renewable alternatives to fossil-fuel-derived products and advancing the bioeconomy.
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Scientists are proposing that breakthroughs from human gut microbiome medicine — like how bacteria colonize our bodies and interact with our immune system — can be directly applied to develop better microbial products for crops and soil health.
Human microbiome therapeutics research has developed advanced strategies for microbial colonization and immune interaction that have not yet been fully applied to agricultural bioproducts.
The paper identifies three specific engineering areas — colonization, immune modulation, and biosafety — from human medicine that can directly guide the design of next-generation crop microbiome products.
Greater interdisciplinary collaboration between human health and agricultural microbiome researchers is identified as the critical bottleneck limiting the translation of microbiome science into real-world bioproducts.