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Microbial Biosurfactant: A New Frontier for Sustainable Agriculture and Pharmaceutical Industries

Ajay Kumar
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Sandeep Kumar Singh
,
Chandra Kant
,
Hariom Verma
,
Chandra Kant
,
Prem Pratap Singh
,
Arpan Modi
,
Samir Droby
,
Mahipal Singh Kesawat
,
Hemasundar Alavilli
ORCID logo ,
Shashi Kant Bhatia
,
Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale
,
Rijuta Ganesh Saratale
,
Sang-Min Chung
,
Manu Kumar
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Version 1 : Received: 8 September 2021 / Approved: 8 September 2021 / Online: 8 September 2021 (13:34:43 CEST)

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Kumar, A.; Singh, S.K.; Kant, C.; Verma, H.; Kumar, D.; Singh, P.P.; Modi, A.; Droby, S.; Kesawat, M.S.; Alavilli, H.; Bhatia, S.K.; Saratale, G.D.; Saratale, R.G.; Chung, S.-M.; Kumar, M. Microbial Biosurfactant: A New Frontier for Sustainable Agriculture and Pharmaceutical Industries. Antioxidants 2021, 10, 1472. Kumar, A.; Singh, S.K.; Kant, C.; Verma, H.; Kumar, D.; Singh, P.P.; Modi, A.; Droby, S.; Kesawat, M.S.; Alavilli, H.; Bhatia, S.K.; Saratale, G.D.; Saratale, R.G.; Chung, S.-M.; Kumar, M. Microbial Biosurfactant: A New Frontier for Sustainable Agriculture and Pharmaceutical Industries. Antioxidants 2021, 10, 1472.

Abstract

In the current scenario of changing climatic conditions and rising global population, there is always a need to explore novel, efficient, and economical natural products for the benefit of human kind. Biosurfactant is one of the latest explored microbial biomolecules that have been used in numerous fields, including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food processing, and environment-cleaning industries as raw material, lubrication, wetting, foaming softening, making emulsions, and stabilizing dispersions. The amphiphilic nature of biosurfactant biomolecules showed great advantage, distributing themselves into two immiscible surfaces by reducing interfacial surface tension and increasing the solubility of hydrophobic compounds. Furthermore, their eco-friendly nature, low or even no toxic nature, durability at higher temperatures, and wide range of pH fluctuations making the microbial surfactants preferable compared to their chemical counterparts. Additionally, the biosurfactants can obviate the oxidation flow by eliciting the antioxidant property, antimicrobial, anticancer activity, and drug delivery system, further broadening their applicability in the food, pharmaceutical, and pharma industries. Nowadays, biosurfactant has been broadly utilized to improve the soil quality by improving the concentration of trace elements and mixed with pesticides or applied singly on the plant surfaces for plant disease management. In the present review, we summarise the latest aspect of microbial synthesized biosurfactant compounds, limiting factors of biosurfactant production, and their application in improving soil quality, plant disease management.

Keywords

Biosurfactants; Critical micelle concentration (C.M.C.); Antioxidant; Microorganism; Soil quality; Plant disease management

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Plant Sciences

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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