First time β-farnesene production by the versatile bacterium Cupriavidus necator.

The β-farnesene production titers reported in this paper are not in the same range as titers published with known heterotrophic producers E. coli or S. cerevisiae. However, this proof-of-principle study with C. necator as production host opens new synthesis routes toward a sustainable economy and leaves room for further optimizations, which have been already performed with the known production strains.