Biohydrogen Machinery: Recent Insights, Genetic Fabrication, and Future Prospects

Abstract

The increase in global carbon footprints forced mankind to look for alternative carbon-free fuels. Biohydrogen is an ideal fuel, free of carbon footprint, which has the potential to replace fossil fuels. Its high energy content per gram has a great commercial value. Bacteria, cyanobacteria, and algae are developed with various cellular machineries for hydrogen production. Detailed information on these hydrogen-producing cellular machineries, their mechanism of catalysis, and modern genetic engineering and fabrication studies for the enhancement of hydrogen production are reviewed and discussed.