The natural biodiversity in Latin America has made it a hotspot for research and applications of biosurfactants,with Brazil leading the way in mental property and patents for novel processes and sustainable production methods to manufacture biosurfactants at low cost from agro-industrial waste. A review of bioprospecting studies to identify biosurfactant-producing microorganisms, the renewable substrates used in fermentation processes, and the range of biosurfactant applications being developed across Latin America is presented in an article in Industrial Biotechnology.
Source: phys.org