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The production of value-added chemicals alongside biofuels from lignocellulosic hydrolysates is critical for developing economically viable biorefineries. Here, the production of propionic acid (PA), a potenti...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:200
Published on: 17 August 2017
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3-Hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) is an important platform chemical which can be produced biologically from glycerol. Klebsiella pneumoniae is an ideal biocatalyst for 3-HP because it can grow well on glycerol and n...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:199
Published on: 17 August 2017
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Oleaginous microalgae are promising production hosts for the sustainable generation of lipid-based bioproducts and as bioenergy carriers such as biodiesel. Transcriptomics of the lipid accumulation phase, trig...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:197
Published on: 14 August 2017
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The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a green and sustainable technology for electricity energy harvest from biomass, in which exoelectrogens use metabolism and extracellular electron transfer pathways for the conv...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:196
Published on: 8 August 2017
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In Uganda, the chaff remaining from threshed panicles of millet and sorghum is a low value, lignocellulose-rich agricultural by-product. Currently, it is used as a substrate for the cultivation of edible Oyste...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:195
Published on: 4 August 2017
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The filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei is widely utilized in industry for cellulase production, but its xylanase activity must be improved to enhance the accessibility of lignocellulose to cellulases. Several ...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:194
Published on: 3 August 2017
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The cellulosic ethanol industry has developed efficient strategies for converting sugars obtained from various cellulosic feedstocks to bioethanol. However, any further major improvements in ethanol productivi...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:193
Published on: 2 August 2017
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Although conversion of low value but high-volume lignin by-product to its usable form is one of the determinant factors for building an economically feasible integrated lignocellulose biorefinery, it has been ...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:192
Published on: 24 July 2017
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The GTAP model has been used to estimate biofuel policy induced land use changes and consequent GHG emissions for more than a decade. This paper reviews the history of the model and database modifications and ...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:191
Published on: 20 July 2017
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One of the major challenges for the present and future generations is to find suitable substitutes for the fossil resources we rely on today. Cyanobacterial carbohydrates have been discussed as an emerging ren...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:190
Published on: 19 July 2017
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Integration of heterogeneous genes is widely applied in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. However, knowledge about the effect of integrative position on gene expression remains limited.
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:189
Published on: 18 July 2017
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Microalgae are promising alternate and renewable sources for producing valuable products such as biofuel and essential fatty acids. Although this is the case, there are still challenges impeding on the effecti...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:187
Published on: 17 July 2017
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The fact that microalgae perform very efficiently photosynthetic conversion of sunlight into chemical energy has moved them into the focus of regenerative fuel research. Especially, biogas generation via anaer...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:186
Published on: 17 July 2017
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Microalgal triglycerides (TAGs) hold great promise as sustainable feedstock for commodity industries. However, to determine research priorities and support business decisions, solid techno-economic studies are...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:188
Published on: 17 July 2017
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Triacylglycerols (TAGs) and wax esters (WEs) are important neutral lipids which serve as energy reservoir in some plants and microorganisms. In recent years, these biologically produced neutral lipids have bee...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:185
Published on: 15 July 2017
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Heterogeneity within herbaceous biomass can present important challenges for processing feedstocks to cellulosic biofuels. Alterations to cell wall composition and organization during plant growth represent ma...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:184
Published on: 15 July 2017
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Microbial production of biofuels and biochemicals from renewable feedstocks has received considerable recent attention from environmental protection and energy production perspectives. Many biofuels and bioche...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:183
Published on: 14 July 2017
Methodology
The effective use of plant biomass for biofuel and bioproduct production requires a comprehensive glycosyl residue composition analysis to understand the different cell wall polysaccharides present in the diff...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:182
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Rhodopseudomonas palustris is a versatile microbe that encounters an innate redox imbalance while growing photoheterotrophically with reduced substrates. The resulting excess in reduci...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:178
Published on: 11 July 2017
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The biomass yield of Chlorella PY-ZU1 drastically increased when cultivated under high CO2 condition compared with that cultivated under air condition. However, less attention has been given to the microalgae pho...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:181
Published on: 11 July 2017
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Medium chain carboxylic acids, such as caproic acid, are conventionally produced from food materials. Caproic acid can be produced through fermentation by the reverse β-oxidation of lactic acid, generated from...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:180
Published on: 11 July 2017
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The effectiveness of the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose in plant cell wall is strongly influenced by the access of enzymes to cellulose, which is at least in part limited by the presence of lignin. Although...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:176
Published on: 11 July 2017
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Wood decayed by brown rot fungi and wood treated with the chelator-mediated Fenton (CMF) reaction, either alone or together with a cellulose enzyme cocktail, was analyzed by small angle neutron scattering (SAN...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:179
Published on: 11 July 2017
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Recent advances in the development of enzyme cocktails for degradation of lignocellulosic biomass, especially the discovery of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs), have opened new perspectives for proc...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:177
Published on: 11 July 2017
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With increasing concerns over global warming and depletion of fossil-fuel reserves, it is attractive to develop innovative strategies to assimilate CO2, a greenhouse gas, into usable organic carbon. Cell-free sys...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:175
Published on: 6 July 2017
