Announcement:
Biotechnology for Biofuels has a new subtitle: 'Advancing biological production of fuels, chemicals, and biomaterials'. The change comes with an updated aims and scope to welcome a greater diversity of research and more explicitly encompass biotechnological advances to produce chemicals and biomaterials from carbonaceous feedstocks. Read our revised aims and scope here.
Articles
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Stem vacuole-targetted sucrose isomerase enhances sugar content in sorghum
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Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of ethanol produced via fermentation of sugars derived from shrub willow (Salix ssp.) hot water extraction in the Northeast United States
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Colorimetric LPMO assay with direct implication for cellulolytic activity
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Targeting hydroxycinnamoyl CoA: shikimate hydroxycinnamoyl transferase for lignin modification in Brachypodium distachyon
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Optimizing pentose utilization in yeast: the need for novel tools and approaches
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Cellulose crystallinity index: measurement techniques and their impact on interpreting cellulase performance
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Value-added uses for crude glycerol--a byproduct of biodiesel production
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Novel enzymes for the degradation of cellulose
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Chemical and morphological characterization of sugarcane bagasse submitted to a delignification process for enhanced enzymatic digestibility
2020
Thematic series
Analytical Methods in Plant Biomass Characterization and Valorization
Edited by: Dr Breeanna Urbanowicz, Dr Maria Peña, and Dr William Barnes
2019
Thematic series
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases
Edited by: Dr Jean-Guy Berrin and Dr Paul Walton
2017
Thematic series
The US-DOE Bioenergy Science Center (BESC): Findings and Perspectives
Edited by: Prof Edward Bayer, Dr Brian Davison and Dr Michael Himmel
Thematic series
Life cycle analysis
Edited by: Dr Michael Wang
2015
Thematic series
Chemicals and bioproducts from biomass
Edited by: Prof James du Preez
2013
Thematic series
Special issue from the 20th International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels (ISAF 2013): Alcohol fuels enabling sustainable development
Edited by: Prof Willem H van Zyl
Thematic series
Pretreatment - highlights from the NSERC Bioconversion Network Pretreatment Workshop
Edited by: Prof Jack Saddler, Dr Linoj Kumar
2012
Thematic series
Transgenic plants for enhanced biofuel production
2009
Thematic series
The life and lifework of Mary Mandels - first lady of cellulase research
Announcing the launch of In Review
Biotechnology for Biofuels, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service will be able to:
- Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
- Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
- Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received
Aims and scope
Biotechnology for Biofuels is an open access peer-reviewed journal featuring studies describing advancements in fundamental understanding, technological capabilities, and technoeconomic & life cycle assessment of the production of biofuels, biochemicals and biomaterials.
Analytical Methods in Plant Biomass Characterization and Valorization
A special collection of articles exploring methods for the characterization and utilization of plant biomass in the emerging bioeconomy, to inform future efforts toward increasing plant productivity and biomass valorization. Read more.
Transitioning towards GHG neutrality: The role of bioeconomy
Here we will present a special collection of articles in the area of bioeconomy towards an environmentally efficient transition to GHG neutrality. Work describing new technical solutions to efficiently use biogenic carbon in the food/feed, material, chemical, and/or fuel (for non-terrestrial transport in particular) sectors are encouraged. This also includes studies focusing on quantifying the environmental performance of such current/emerging technologies. Special consideration will be given to studies investigating the multi-sectorial integration of carbon-dependent products and services within case studies at the regional or national level.
Thematic series
Biotechnology for Biofuels has published the following thematic series:
Analytical Methods in Plant Biomass Characterization and Valorization
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases
The US-DOE Bioenergy Science Center (BESC): Findings and Perspectives
Chemicals and bioproducts from biomass
ISAF 2013: Alcohol fuels enabling sustainable development
Highlights from the NSERC Bioconversion Network Pretreatment Workshop
Announcement: COVID-19 impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
Professor Jean Marie Francois
Jean Marie Francois received his PhD in Agronomy and Biological Chemistry from The Catholic University of Louvain La Neuve in 1988. After several post-doctoral periods in USA (North Carolina State University), France (Université de Bordeaux II et CNRS Gif sur Yvette), Brazil (University Sao Paulo) and University Louvain La Neuve, he became full professor at the Institute National des Sciences Appliquées, Federal University of Toulouse in 1993 and reached the exceptional class in 2009. Since then, he created and still manages two research groups (about 25 persons including two associate professors, four senior researchers, 10 technical engineers, four PhD students and five Post-docs) dealing with Integrated Physiology and Functional genomics of microbial systems (PHYGE team) at Toulouse Biotechnology Institute and Toulouse White Biotechnology Center.
Dr Michael Himmel
Dr Himmel has 38 years of progressive experience in conducting, supervising, and planning research in protein biochemistry, recombinant technology, enzyme engineering, new microorganism discovery, and the physicochemistry of macromolecules. He has also supervised research that targets the application of site-directed-mutagenesis and rational protein design to the stabilization and improvement of important industrial enzymes, especially glycosyl hydrolases and metabolic pathway enzymes. New areas of interest to his research group include “green electronics” and nanomaterials applications of biomass derived components.
Professor Debra Mohnen
Professor Mohnen received her B.A. in biology from Lawrence University (Wisconsin) and her MS in botany and PhD in plant biology from the University of Illinois. Her PhD research was conducted at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, Switzerland. She held postdoctoral research associate positions at the USDA's Richard Russell Research Center and at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) in Athens, GA where she won an NIH National Research Service Award for her postdoctoral research. She was appointed to the CCRC faculty in September 1990 and is currently Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and also adjunct faculty member in the Department of Plant Biology and member of the Plant Center at UGA.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
52 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
43 days to first decision for all manuscripts
109 days from submission to acceptance
13 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
4.815 - 2-year Impact Factor
5.473 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.397 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.522 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
1,393,197 Downloads
499 Altmetric Mentions