Bioprospecting the 'little things' a key to solving big problems

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Bioprospecting the 'little things' a key to solving big problems Bioprospecting the 'little things' a key to solving big problems 13/12/2022 | 2 MINS Experts believe actively looking for tiny organisms for use in industries as diverse as fuel production, agriculture and pharmaceuticals will help promote biodiversity and a more sustainable future. Associate Professor Parwinder Kaur and research officer Paton Vuong, from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs School of Agriculture and Environment, are co-authors of The little things that matter: how bioprospecting microbial biodiversity can build towards the realisation of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals published in npj Biodiversity, a journal in the Nature portfolio. Associate Professor Kaur said understanding and conservation of unseen microbial diversity was critical because ecosystems it supports, the knowledge therein, and the associated genetic information were key contributors to sustainable development. ΓÇ£There are an astronomical number of individual micro-

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Bioprospecting the 'little things' a key to solving big problems Bioprospecting the 'little things' a key to solving big problems 13/12/2022 | 2 MINS Experts believe actively looking for tiny organisms for use in industries as diverse as fuel production, agriculture and pharmaceuticals will help promote biodiversity and a more sustainable future.

Associate Professor Parwinder Kaur and research officer Paton Vuong, from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs School of Agriculture and Environment, are co-authors of The little things that matter: how bioprospecting microbial biodiversity can build towards the realisation of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals published in npj Biodiversity, a journal in the Nature portfolio.

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