MOLECULAR TOOLS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES OF AGROINDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES

Abstract

Agroindustrial activities provide important primary goods that contribute to make the economy of the countryside more dynamic and, in turn, a diversity of secondary products are generated from them, such as derivatives, coproducts, byproducts, and residues, which cause environmental contamination when they are not exploited adequately. In this revision, some of the molecular tools and the potential of omics sciences to contribute to the sustainable exploitation of these goods are addressed, in part by their transformation through bioremediation, biological process by which contaminant compounds are removed or transformed from the environment.