Novel production processes for L-glufosinate

草铵膦是一种每年价值2.5亿英镑的氨基酸除草剂。它目前被生产为非活性和活性形式的均匀混合物。因此，农民购买和使用的产品中有一半是不活跃的，浪费金钱，并因使用草铵膦而增加了环境负荷。嗜酸菌的创新，将在这个早期阶段的可行性研究进行评估，包括开发技术，只生产活性形式的草铵膦，产生一个产品，应该更便宜，更容易使用。新的酶促步骤，在概念上类似于商业上证明的方法，将用于将非活性形式转化为活性形式。因此，该项目代表着将创新的技术方法应用于生产经过市场验证的产品。

Glufosinate is a £250 million dollar per year amino acid herbicide. It is currently produced as an even mixture of an inactive and an active form. Consequently, half of the product purchased and applied by farmers is inactive, wasting money and increasing the environmental load due to glufosinate use. Acidophil’s innovation, to be evaluated in this early stage feasibility study, consists of developing technologies to produce only the active form of glufosinate, generating a product that should be cheaper and easier to use. Novel enzymatic steps, similar in concept to commercially proven processes, will be used to convert the inactive form into the active form. This project therefore represents applying an innovative technological approach to the production of a market-proven product.