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  1. Penicillium funiculosum NCIM1228 is a non-model filamentous fungus that produces high-quality secretome for lignocellulosic biomass saccharification. Despite having desirable traits to be an industrial workhorse,...

    Authors: Anmoldeep Randhawa, Nandita Pasari, Tulika Sinha, Mayank Gupta, Anju M. Nair, Olusola A. Ogunyewo, Sandhya Verma, Praveen Kumar Verma and Syed Shams Yazdani

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:31

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  3. The discovery of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) has fundamentally changed our understanding of microbial lignocellulose degradation. Cellulomonas bacteria have a rich history of study due to their ab...

    Authors: James Li, Laleh Solhi, Ethan D. Goddard-Borger, Yann Mathieu, Warren W. Wakarchuk, Stephen G. Withers and Harry Brumer

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:29

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  4. Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are monocopper enzymes that catalyze oxidative depolymerization of industrially relevant crystalline polysaccharides, such as cellulose, in a reaction that depends o...

    Authors: Anton A. Stepnov, Zarah Forsberg, Morten Sørlie, Giang-Son Nguyen, Alexander Wentzel, Åsmund K. Røhr and Vincent G. H. Eijsink

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:28

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  5. Lignin intermediates resulting from lignocellulose degradation have been suspected to hinder anaerobic mineralisation of organic materials to biogas. Phenyl acids like phenylacetate (PAA) are early detectable ...

    Authors: Eva Maria Prem, Mira Mutschlechner, Blaz Stres, Paul Illmer and Andreas Otto Wagner

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:27

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  6. Renewable chemicals have attracted attention due to increasing interest in environmental concerns and resource utilization. Biobased production of industrial compounds from nonfood biomass has become increasin...

    Authors: Hsiang-Yen Su, Hua-Ying Li, Cai-Yun Xie, Qiang Fei and Ke-Ke Cheng

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:26

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  7. Humic acids (HA) have been used in biorefinery process due to its surfactant properties as an aid to the pretreatment of lignocellulose, with results indicating a positive effect on delignification. However, t...

    Authors: Wei Tang, Xinxing Wu, Caoxing Huang, Zhe Ling, Chenhuan Lai and Qiang Yong

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:25

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  8. The cellulolytic thermophile Clostridium thermocellum is an important biocatalyst due to its ability to solubilize lignocellulosic feedstocks without the need for pretreatment or exogenous enzyme addition. At low...

    Authors: Dhananjay Beri, Christopher D. Herring, Sofie Blahova, Suresh Poudel, Richard J. Giannone, Robert L. Hettich and Lee R. Lynd

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:24

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  9. The global production of glycerol is increasing year by year since the demands of biodiesel is rising. It is benefit for high-yield succinate synthesis due to its high reducing property. A. succinogenes, a succin...

    Authors: Tianwen Zheng, Bin Xu, Yaliang Ji, Wenming Zhang, Fengxue Xin, Weiliang Dong, Ping Wei, Jiangfeng Ma and Min Jiang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:23

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  10. Both APETALA2/Ethylene Responsive Factor (AP2/ERF) superfamily and R2R3-MYB family were from one of the largest diverse families of transcription factors (TFs) in plants, and played important roles in plant de...

    Authors: Guanlan Xing, Jinyu Li, Wenli Li, Sin Man Lam, Hongli Yuan, Guanghou Shui and Jinshui Yang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:22

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  11. Predatory flagellates and ciliates are two common bio-contaminants which frequently cause biomass losses in Chlorella mass culture. Efficient and targeted ways are required to control these contaminations in Chlo...

    Authors: Xiaobin Wen, Aoqi Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Lin Liang, Yan Huo, Kaixuan Wang, Youzhi Yu, Yahong Geng, Yi Ding and Yeguang Li

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:21

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  12. Microalgae have attracted considerable interest due to their ability to produce a wide range of valuable compounds. Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) has been demonstrated to effectively disrupt the microalgae cell...

    Authors: I. Papachristou, S. Akaberi, A. Silve, E. Navarro-López, R. Wüstner, K. Leber, N. Nazarova, G. Müller and W. Frey

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:20

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  13. Increasing the efficiency of the biogas production process is possible by modifying the technological installations of the biogas plant. In this study, specific solutions based on a mathematical model that lea...

    Authors: Karol Postawa, Jerzy Szczygieł and Marek Kułażyński

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:19

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  14. Biomass composition varies from plant to plant and greatly affects biomass utilization. Lignin is a heterogeneous phenolic polymer derived mainly from p-coumaryl, coniferyl, and sinapyl alcohols and makes up to 1...

    Authors: Fang Chen, Chunliu Zhuo, Xirong Xiao, Thomas H. Pendergast and Katrien M. Devos

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:18

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  16. The production of biofuels as an efficient source of renewable energy has received considerable attention due to increasing energy demands and regulatory incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Second-g...

    Authors: Jeffrey P. Tingley, Kristin E. Low, Xiaohui Xing and D. Wade Abbott

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:16

    Content type: Review

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  17. Bacillus subtilis CS13 was previously isolated for 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BD) and poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) co-production. When culturing this strain without L-glutamic acid in the medium, 2,3-BD is the main meta...

    Authors: Dexin Wang, Baek-Rock Oh, Sungbeom Lee, Dae-Hyuk Kim and Min-Ho Joe

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:15

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  18. Multidimensional solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy has emerged as an indispensable technique for resolving polymer structure and intermolecular packing in primary and secondary plant ...

    Authors: Wancheng Zhao, Alex Kirui, Fabien Deligey, Frederic Mentink-Vigier, Yihua Zhou, Baocai Zhang and Tuo Wang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:14

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  19. Plastic plays a crucial role in everyday life of human living, nevertheless it represents an undeniable source of land and water pollution. Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a bio-based and biodegradable polyester,...

    Authors: Beatrice Mongili, Annalisa Abdel Azim, Silvia Fraterrigo Garofalo, Esperanza Batuecas, Angela Re, Sergio Bocchini and Debora Fino

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:13

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  20. Despite the environmental value of biobased lubricants, they account for less than 2% of global lubricant use due to poor thermo-oxidative stability arising from the presence of unsaturated double bonds. Methy...

    Authors: Hannah G. Blitzblau, Andrew L. Consiglio, Paulo Teixeira, Donald V. Crabtree, Shuyan Chen, Oliver Konzock, Gamuchirai Chifamba, Austin Su, Annapurna Kamineni, Kyle MacEwen, Maureen Hamilton, Vasiliki Tsakraklides, Jens Nielsen, Verena Siewers and A. Joe Shaw

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:12

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  21. Efficient utilization of all available carbons from lignocellulosic biomass is critical for economic efficiency of a bioconversion process to produce renewable bioproducts. However, the metabolic responses tha...

    Authors: Zhangyang Xu, Chunmei Pan, Xiaolu Li, Naijia Hao, Tong Zhang, Matthew J. Gaffrey, Yunqiao Pu, John R. Cort, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Wei-Jun Qian and Bin Yang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:11

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  22. Bioethanol as a renewable energy resource plays an important role in alleviating energy crisis and environmental protection. Pervaporation has achieved increasing attention because of its potential to be a use...

    Authors: Ping Peng, Yongqiang Lan, Lun Liang and Kemeng Jia

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:10

    Content type: Review

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  23. Ethanol biorefineries need to lower their overall production costs to become economically feasible. Two strategies to achieve this are to reduce costs using cheaper feedstocks or to increase the ethanol produc...

    Authors: Danielle Uchimura Pascoli, Azra Suko, Rick Gustafson, Heidi L. Gough and Renata Bura

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:9

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  24. Isobutanol is a candidate to replace gasoline from fossil resources. This higher alcohol can be produced from sugars using genetically modified microorganisms. Shimwellia blattae (p424IbPSO) is a robust strain re...

    Authors: Miguel G. Acedos, Isabel de la Torre, Victoria E. Santos, Félix García-Ochoa, José L. García and Beatriz Galán

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:8

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  25. It is desirable to improve the anaerobic digestion processes of recalcitrant materials, such as cellulose. Enhancement of methane (CH4) production from organic molecules was previously accomplished through coupli...

    Authors: Kengo Sasaki, Daisuke Sasaki, Yota Tsuge, Masahiko Morita and Akihiko Kondo

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:7

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  26. Consolidated bioprocessing using oleaginous yeast is a promising modality for the economic conversion of plant biomass to fuels and chemicals. However, yeast are not known to produce effective biomass degradin...

    Authors: Markus Alahuhta, Qi Xu, Eric P. Knoshaug, Wei Wang, Hui Wei, Antonella Amore, John O. Baker, Todd Vander Wall, Michael E. Himmel and Min Zhang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:6

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  27. The issues of global warming, coupled with fossil fuel depletion, have undoubtedly led to renewed interest in other sources of commercial fuels. The search for renewable fuels has motivated research into the b...

    Authors: Mobolaji Felicia Adegboye, Omena Bernard Ojuederie, Paola M. Talia and Olubukola Oluranti Babalola

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:5

    Content type: Review

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  28. Heterotrophic cultivation of microalgae has been proposed as a viable alternative method for novel high-value biomolecules, enriched biomass, and biofuel production because of their allowance of high cell dens...

    Authors: Baoyan Gao, Feifei Wang, Luodong Huang, Hui Liu, Yuming Zhong and Chengwu Zhang

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:4

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  29. 2-phenylethanol (2-PE) is a rose-scented flavor and fragrance compound that is used in food, beverages, and personal care products. Compatibility with gasoline also makes it a potential biofuel or fuel additiv...

    Authors: Mengwan Li, Xuye Lang, Marcos Moran Cabrera, Sawyer De Keyser, Xiyan Sun, Nancy Da Silva and Ian Wheeldon

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:3

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  30. Cutaneotrichosporon oleaginosus ATCC 20509 is a fast-growing oleaginous basidiomycete yeast that is able to grow in a wide range of low-cost carbon sources including crude glycerol, a byproduct of biodiesel produ...

    Authors: Nhung Pham, Maarten Reijnders, Maria Suarez-Diez, Bart Nijsse, Jan Springer, Gerrit Eggink and Peter J. Schaap

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:2

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  31. The recalcitrance of lignocellulosics to enzymatic saccharification has been related to many factors, including the tissue and molecular heterogeneity of the plant particles. The role of tissue heterogeneity g...

    Authors: Cécile Barron, Marie-Françoise Devaux, Loïc Foucat, Xavier Falourd, Rachelle Looten, Maud Joseph-Aime, Sylvie Durand, Estelle Bonnin, Catherine Lapierre, Luc Saulnier, Xavier Rouau and Fabienne Guillon

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2021 14:1

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  32. Integrated management of hemicellulosic fraction and its economical transformation to value-added products is the key driver towards sustainable lignocellulosic biorefineries. In this aspect, microbial cell fa...

    Authors: Ashish A. Prabhu, Ekkarin Bosakornranut, Yassin Amraoui, Deepti Agrawal, Frederic Coulon, Vivekanand Vivekanand, Vijay Kumar Thakur and Vinod Kumar

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:209

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  33. Capture and storage of the energy carrier hydrogen as well as of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide are two major problems that mankind faces currently. Chemical catalysts have been developed, but only recently...

    Authors: Anja Wiechmann, Dragan Trifunović, Sophie Klein and Volker Müller

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:208

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  34. Itaconic acid is a bio-derived platform chemical with uses ranging from polymer synthesis to biofuel production. The efficient conversion of cellulosic waste streams into itaconic acid could thus enable the su...

    Authors: Ivan Schlembach, Hamed Hosseinpour Tehrani, Lars M. Blank, Jochen Büchs, Nick Wierckx, Lars Regestein and Miriam A. Rosenbaum

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:207

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  35. Succinic acid has great potential to be a new bio-based building block for deriving a number of value-added chemicals in industry. Bio-based succinic acid production from renewable biomass can provide a feasib...

    Authors: Lei Yang, Mikkel Møller Henriksen, Rasmus Syrach Hansen, Mette Lübeck, Jesper Vang, Julie Egelund Andersen, Signe Bille and Peter Stephensen Lübeck

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:206

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  36. The economic viability of a protein-production process relies highly on the production titer and the price of raw materials. Crude glycerol coming from the production of biodiesel is a renewable and cost-effec...

    Authors: Chung-Jen Chiang, Yi-Jing Ho, Mu-Chen Hu and Yun-Peng Chao

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:205

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  38. d-Glucaric acid (GA) is a value-added chemical produced from biomass, and has potential applications as a versatile platform chemical, food additive, metal sequestering agent, and therapeutic agent. Marketed GA.....

    Authors: Lu-Zhou Chen, Si-Ling Huang, Jin Hou, Xue-Ping Guo, Feng-Shan Wang and Ju-Zheng Sheng

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:203

    Content type: Review

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  40. The composition of biomass determines its suitability for different applications within a biorefinery system. The proportion of the major biomass fractions (sugar, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin) may vary...

    Authors: Patrick J. Mason, Agnelo Furtado, Annelie Marquardt, Katrina Hodgson-Kratky, Nam V. Hoang, Frederik C. Botha, Gabriella Papa, Jenny C. Mortimer, Blake Simmons and Robert J. Henry

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:201

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  41. Industrial biofuels and other value-added products can be produced from metabolically engineered microorganisms. Methylomonas sp. DH-1 is a candidate platform for bioconversion that uses methane as a carbon sourc...

    Authors: Jun Ren, Hyang-Mi Lee, Thi Duc Thai and Dokyun Na

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:200

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  42. Biomass pre-treatment is gaining attention as a standalone process to improve the qualitative aspect of the lignocellulosic material. It has been gaining ground in the power station by replacing the coal with ...

    Authors: Alok Dhaundiyal, Divine Atsu and Laszlo Toth

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:199

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  43. Xylanases are one of the most extensively used enzymes for biomass digestion. However, in many instances, their use is limited by poor performance under the conditions of pH and temperature required by the ind...

    Authors: David Talens-Perales, Paloma Sánchez-Torres, Julia Marín-Navarro and Julio Polaina

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:198

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  44. The recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass provided technical and economic challenges in the current biomass conversion processes. Lignin is considered as a crucial recalcitrance component in biomass utiliza...

    Authors: Shifei Qin, Chunfen Fan, Xiaohong Li, Yi Li, Jian Hu, Chaofeng Li and Keming Luo

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:197

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  45. Major cost of bioethanol is attributed to enzymes employed in biomass hydrolysis. Biomass hydrolyzing enzymes are predominantly produced from the hyper-cellulolytic mutant filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei RU...

    Authors: AthiraRaj Sreeja-Raju, Meera Christopher, Prajeesh Kooloth-Valappil, Rajasree Kuni-Parambil, Digambar Vittal Gokhale, Meena Sankar, Amith Abraham, Ashok Pandey and Rajeev K. Sukumaran

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:196

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  46. The discovery of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMO) has changed our perspective on enzymatic degradation of plant biomass. Through an oxidative mechanism, these enzymes are able to cleave and depolymer...

    Authors: F. Calderaro, M. Keser, M. Akeroyd, L. E. Bevers, V. G. H. Eijsink, A. Várnai and M. A. van den Berg

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:195

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  47. Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are oxidative, copper-dependent enzymes that function as powerful tools in the turnover of various biomasses, including lignocellulosic plant biomass. While LPMOs ar...

    Authors: Tina Rise Tuveng, Marianne Slang Jensen, Lasse Fredriksen, Gustav Vaaje-Kolstad, Vincent G. H. Eijsink and Zarah Forsberg

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:194

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  48. Stress tolerance is one of the important desired microbial traits for industrial bioprocesses, and global regulatory protein engineering is an efficient approach to improve strain tolerance. In our study, IrrE...

    Authors: Li Wang, Xin Wang, Zhi-Qiang He, Si-Jie Zhou, Li Xu, Xiao-Yu Tan, Tao Xu, Bing-Zhi Li and Ying-Jin Yuan

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:193

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  49. Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are indispensable redox enzymes used in industry for the saccharification of plant biomass. LPMO-driven cellulose oxidation can be enhanced considerably through phot...

    Authors: N. Dodge, D. A. Russo, B. M. Blossom, R. K. Singh, B. van Oort, R. Croce, M. J. Bjerrum and P. E. Jensen

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:192

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  50. Oscillation is a special cell behavior in microorganisms during continuous fermentation, which poses threats to the output stability for industrial productions of biofuels and biochemicals. In previous study, ...

    Authors: Jin-Jie Zhou, Jun-Tao Shen, Xiao-Li Wang, Ya-Qin Sun and Zhi-Long Xiu

    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2020 13:191

    Content type: Research

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