REVIEW article
Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.
Sec. Bioprocess Engineering
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2025.1548323
This article is part of the Research Topic‘Unconventional’ Bacterial Hosts in Biotechnology - A Future PerspectiveView all articles
Shaping the future of tobacco through microbial insights: A review of advances and applications
Provisionally accepted
- 1Nankai University, Tianjin, China
- 2Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China
- 3COMSATS University, Islamabad Campus, Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Over the past 20 years, researchers have used multi-omics techniques to study microbial diversity and metabolic function on tobacco leaves. The unique metabolic function of tobacco microorganisms has attracted extensive attention from researchers, which is an important research field in tobacco industry to improve the intrinsic quality of tobacco leaf with microbial agents. The microorganisms are particularly rich on the surface of tobacco leaf, and their metabolic function is closely related to the change of tobacco leaf chemical composition. Some microorganisms have important metabolic functions, such as: degrading macromolecular and harmful substances in tobacco leaves, and they have different degradation rates and pathways for the substances. At present, many functions of tobacco leaf microorganisms have not been fully verified and analyzed. In the future, more novel culture methods are needed to screen and isolate microorganisms on the surface of tobacco leaves, deeply tap their metabolic potential, explore the application value of microorganisms in the tobacco industry, and further promote the innovation and development of the industry.
Keywords: Tobacco, Microorganism, community composition, Functions, isolation and cultivation strategies
Received: 19 Dec 2024; Accepted: 28 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hu, Yao, Fei, Imdad, Yang, Huang, Mao and Yang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Duobin Mao, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan Province, China
Jing Yang, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan Province, China
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