Table 1 Biosurfactants, producing organisms and their applications in recent years.

Rhodococcus erythropolis 3C-9

Glucolipid and a trehalose lipid

Oil spill cleanup operations

(Peng et al. 2007)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa S2

Rhamnolipid

Bioremediation of oil contaminated sites

(Chen et al. 2007)

Pseudozyma siamensis CBS 9960

Mannosylerythritol lipid

Promising yeast biosurfactant

(Morita et al. 2008a)

Pseudozyma graminicola CBS 10092

Mannosylerythritol Lipid

washing detergents

(Morita et al. 2008b)

Pseudomonas libanensis M9-3

Lipopeptide

Environmental and biomedical applications

(Saini et al. 2008)

Bacillus subtilis strain ZW-3

Lipopeptide

Potential in pharmaceutics, environmental protection, cosmetic, oil recovery

(Wang et al. 2008b)

Rhodococcus sp. TW53

Lipopeptide

Bioremediation of marine oil pollution.

(Peng et al. 2008)

Pseudozyma hubeiensis

Glycolipid

Bioremediation of marine oil pollution

(Fukuoka et al. 2008)

R. wratislaviensis BN38

Glycolipid

Bioremediation applications

(Tuleva et al. 2008)

Bacillus subtilis BS5

Lipopeptide

Bioremediation of hydrocarbon- contaminated sites

(Abdel-Mawgoud et al. 2008)

Azotobacter chroococcum

Lipopeptide

Environmental applications.

(Thavasi et al. 2008b)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa BS20

Rhamnolipid

Bioremediation of hydrocarbon- contaminated sites.

(Abdel-Mawgoud et al. 2009)

Micrococcus luteus BN56

Trehalose tetraester

Bioremediation of oil-contaminated environments.

(Tuleva et al. 2009)

Bacillus subtilis HOB2

Lipopeptide

Enhanced oil recovery, bioremediation of soil and marine environments, and food industries.

(Haddad et al. 2009)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa UFPEDA 614

Rhamnolipid

Bioremediation.

(Neto et al. 2009)

Nocardiopsis alba MSA10

Lipopeptide

Bioremediation

(Gandhimathi et al. 2009)

Pseudoxanthomonas sp. PNK-04

Rhamnolipid

Environmental applications.

(Nayak et al. 2009)

Pseudozyma parantarctica

Mannosylmannitol lipid,

Emulsifiers and/or washing detergents

(Morita et al. 2009)

Pseudomonas alcaligenes

Rhamnolipid

Environmental applications.

(Oliveira, et al.2009)

Pseudomonas koreensis

Lipopeptide

Biocontrol Agent

(Hultberg et al. 2010)

Pseudomonas fluorescens BD5

Lipopeptide

Bioremediation and biomedicine.

(Janek et al. 2010)

Candida bombicola

Sophorolipids

Environmental applications.

(Daverey and Pakshirajan 2010a, b)

Brevibacterium aureumMSA13

Lipopeptide

MEOR

(Kiran et al. 2010b)

Nocardiopsis lucentensis MSA04

Glycolipid

Bioremediation in the marine environment.

(Kiran, et al. 2010a)

Bacillus velezensis H3

Lipopeptide

Industrial strain for the Lipopeptide production.

(Liu et al. 2010)

Calyptogena soyoae

Mannosylerythritol lipid

Bioremediation processes in the marine environment.

(Konishi et al.2010)

Burkholderia plantari DSM 9509

Rhamnolipid

Detergents and pharmaceutical industry

(Hörmann, 2010)