Estevinho Letícia M, Combarros-Fuertes Patrícia, Paula Vanessa Branco
Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, 5300-252 Bragança, Portugal.
Department of Food Hygiene and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of León, Campus de Vegazana, 24071 León, Spain.
Microorganisms. 2020 Sep 7;8(9):1364. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8091364.
The importance of microbiology has grown exponentially since the development of genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, making it possible to clarify microbial biogeochemical processes and their interactions with macroorganisms in both health and disease. Particular attention is being payed to applied microbiology, a discipline that deals with the application of microorganisms to specific endeavors, whose economic value is expected to exceed USD 675.2 billion by 2024. In the Special Issue "Recent Advances in Applied Microbiology", twenty-four papers were published (four reviews and twenty original research papers), covering a wide range of subjects within applied microbiology, including: microbial pathogenesis, the health-promoting properties of microorganisms and their by-products, food conservation, the production of alcoholic beverages, bioremediation and the application of microbiology to several industrial processes.
自基因组学、转录组学和蛋白质组学发展以来，微生物学的重要性呈指数级增长，这使得阐明微生物生物地球化学过程及其在健康和疾病中与大型生物的相互作用成为可能。应用微生物学受到了特别关注，这是一门涉及将微生物应用于特定领域的学科，预计到2024年其经济价值将超过6752亿美元。在《应用微生物学的最新进展》特刊中，发表了24篇论文（4篇综述和20篇原创研究论文），涵盖了应用微生物学的广泛主题，包括：微生物发病机制、微生物及其副产品的健康促进特性、食品保存、酒精饮料生产、生物修复以及微生物学在多个工业过程中的应用。
