The depletion of fossil raw materials and the environmental pollution
associated with their processing motivated the development of alternative
methods for production of fuels and bulk chemicals. The solution offered by
White Biotechnology is to produce these chemicals from biomass, a
renewable resource rich in carbohydrates, using microorganisms as
biocatalysts. Corynebacterium glutamicum is a well-known industrial
bacterium employed for decades in the large scale production of L-amino
acids. In this work, the potential of C. glutamicum as a bio-platform for the
production of succinate and 2,3-butanediol was explored.(...)
