White Biotechnology

An entire branch of biotechnology, known as 'White or Grey Biotechnology' is devoted to industries. I have tried to show the pictorial representation of how vines are made in the industries. It's all based on fermentation and enzymes which involves less energy and produces less waste during their production.

-Nehal Nagpal (India)

White biotechnology includes bioenergetics, food biotechnology, biochemistry.

The development of food biotechnology in Russia is associated with the problem of unbalanced nutrition in the population, due to the lack of dietary nutrition for patients with chronic diseases. As in other countries, in Russia create dietary supplements. They are needed for:

• vegetarians;

• replenishment of vitamin reserves after diseases;

• people suffering from diabetes mellitus;

• people who do not eat well.

-Polina M. (Russia)

Biotechnology has been used in industrial applications for the creation of food nutrient, washing powders and other products for many years. However recent scientific advances in the fields of genomics, molecular genetics, metabolic engineering and catalysis, coupled with advances in enzyme and fermentation technology as well as external factors such as soaring energy prices, renewed environmental concerns and energy security fears, have combined to make white biotechnology more important than ever.

White biotechnology works by marshalling living cells into micro-factories that, by using biomass as a feedstock rather than traditional petrochemicals, create a variety of materials with energy efficiency, increased productivity and better safety and environmental characteristics than could have been otherwise achieved by traditional means.

-Vaibhav Ahuja (India)

One of the first goals on the list of White Biotechnology has been the production of biodegradable plastics. Over the past 20-25 years this effort has mainly been carried about using polyesters of 3 hydroxiacids (PHAs).

They are synthesized using a wide range of bacteria with similar properties to synthetic thermoplastics and elastomers like in rubber

But the only drawback of this process has been its extremely high cost required for production but alternatives are being researched upon with some successfull examples already like that of the PHB polymer,etc.

-Sachkeerat Singh (India)