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Biosurfactants: Potential and Eco-Friendly Material for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Safety—A Review

Ekambaram Gayathiri, Palanisamy Prakash, Natchimuthu Karmegam, Sunita Varjani, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Balasubramani Ravindran

Agronomy · 2022

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Summary

With the present climate change and increasing world population, there is an urgent need to discover creative, efficient, and cost-effective natural products for the benefit of humanity. Biosurfactants are produced by various microorganisms that have several distinct properties compared to other synthetic surfactants, including mild production conditions, multifunctionality, higher biodegradability, and lower toxicity of living cells synthesis of active compounds. Due to their surface tension reducing, emulsion stabilizing, and biodegrading properties of these in place of chemical surfactants, they are generating huge demand in terms of research and usage. Biosurfactants are widely used in the food industry as food-formulation ingredients and antiadhesive agents as emulsifiers, de-emulsifi

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3390/agronomy12030662
Catalogue ID
SNmojuotom-fa4yyr
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