Enzyme agricultural production

A growing area of research is biocatalysis. The challenge is to use renewable agricultural products as feedstock and convert these feedstocks cleanly and selectively to chemicals using enzymes. Catalysis, bioengineering, and chemical engineering will be involved in development of new technologies. 

Another area of great importance is the emerging application of bio-catalysis using nature s catalysts such as enzymes to produce a growing number of pharmaceutical and agricultural products. This subject is outside the scope of this review so other sections of this Handbook (see chapter 31) should be consulted. 

The use of enzymes by the food industry as a processing tool is increasing rapidly due to the tailoring of enzyme preparations to fit the processing needs of the industry. The potential of using enzymes for converting agricultural products into food products is enormous, and has minimally been tapped as a method of production. 

T.S. Lawruk, A.M. Gueco, S.W. Jourdan, J.R. Fleeker, D.P. Herzog, F.M. Rubio, Determination of Chlorotha-lonil in Water and Agricultural Products by Magnetic Particle-based Enzyme Immunoassay , J. Agric. Food Chem., 41,747-752 (1993). 

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