Abstract
While the typical targets of (chemo-)enzymatic cascades are fine chemicals (e.g., pharmaceuticals), a chemoenzymatic cascade, artificial starch anabolic pathway (ASAP), was recently developed to synthesize starch from CO(2). The key results and outstanding features of ASAP are discussed here. We envision that ASAP and its microbial counterpart may enable efficient synthesis of food and sequestration of CO(2) in a circular manner, thus contributing to a sustainable and hunger-free world and future habitation in space.