Editorial: Marine Microorganisms and Their Enzymes With Biotechnological Application

The understanding and exploration of marine microbial resources is a new area with enormouspotentialities in numerous fields of research and application. Due to the extreme and fluctuatingsalinity, pressure, and temperature of the marine environment, marine microorganisms are forcedto develop unique metabolic pathways to adapt to this environment, producing enzymes that showdifferent properties compared to the analogous ones obtained from terrestrial sites. Besides, beingan important source of new active substances, and thanks to the disclosure of the particular thegenome of marine microorganisms, as well as to the application of marine microbial engineeringand enzyme engineering technologies, marine microorganisms and their enzymes show importantdevelopment prospects in the agri-food industry, medicine, and other biotechnological fields. Atpresent, the research on microbial physiology and metabolism under extreme marine conditionshas made remarkable progress, and the application of this knowledge has also been applied for therestoration of the marine environment.