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  1. Yeast has been the focus of development of cell biofactories for the production of lipids and interest in the field has been driven by the need for sustainably sourced lipids for use in a broad range of indust...

    Authors: Huadong Peng, Lizhong He and Victoria S. Haritos
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:98
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  2. 4-Hydroxyphenylacetic acid (4HPAA) is an important building block for synthesizing drugs, agrochemicals, biochemicals, etc. 4HPAA is currently produced exclusively via petrochemical processes and the process i...

    Authors: Yu-Ping Shen, Lai San Fong, Zhi-Bo Yan and Jian-Zhong Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:94
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  4. Cyanobacteria produce hydrocarbons corresponding to diesel fuels by means of aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO). ADO catalyzes a difficult and unusual reaction in the conversion of aldehydes to hydrocarbon...

    Authors: Hisashi Kudo, Yuuki Hayashi and Munehito Arai
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:89
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  5. Butyric fermentation and a substantial loss of dry matter (DM) often occur in alfalfa silage during the rainy season, which is not conducive to subsequent biofuel production. Currently, there have been negativ...

    Authors: Qinhua Liu, Junfeng Li, Jie Zhao, Jingxing Wu and Tao Shao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:88
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  6. Populus (poplar) tree species including hybrid varieties are considered as promising biomass feedstock for biofuels and biochemicals production due to their fast growing, short vegetative cycle, and widely distri...

    Authors: Peiyao Wen, Tian Zhang, Jinye Wang, Zhina Lian and Junhua Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:87
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  8. Lignocellulosic biomass from dedicated energy crops such as Miscanthus spp. is an important tool to combat anthropogenic climate change. However, we still do not exactly understand the sources of cell wall recalc...

    Authors: Ricardo M. F. da Costa, Sivakumar Pattathil, Utku Avci, Ana Winters, Michael G. Hahn and Maurice Bosch
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:85
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  10. Shortly after publication of the original article [1], the authors noticed a few errors which are outlined below.

    Authors: Zhen Wang, Qi Qi, Yuping Lin, Yufeng Guo, Yanfang Liu and Qinhong Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:83
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    The original article was published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:59

  11. Maize brown midrib (bm) mutants associated with impaired lignin biosynthesis are a potential source for the breed of novel germplasms with improved cell wall digestibility. The spontaneous bm5 mutants had been id...

    Authors: Wangdan Xiong, Zhenying Wu, Yuchen Liu, Yu Li, Kunlong Su, Zetao Bai, Siyi Guo, Zhubing Hu, Zhiming Zhang, Yan Bao, Juan Sun, Guofeng Yang and Chunxiang Fu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:82
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  12. Trichoderma reesei is one of the major producers of enzymes for the conversion of plant biomass to sustainable fuels and chemicals. Crude plant biomass can induce the production of CAZymes in T. reesei, but there...

    Authors: Tiziano Benocci, Maria Victoria Aguilar-Pontes, Roland Sándor Kun, Ronnie J. M. Lubbers, Kathleen Lail, Mei Wang, Anna Lipzen, Vivian Ng, Igor V. Grigoriev, Bernhard Seiboth, Paul Daly and Ronald P. de Vries
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:81
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  13. Seasonal variation in microalgae production is a significant challenge to developing cost-competitive algae biofuels. Summer production can be three to five times greater than winter production, which could re...

    Authors: Lynn M. Wendt, Christopher Kinchin, Bradley D. Wahlen, Ryan Davis, Thomas A. Dempster and Henri Gerken
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:80
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  14. The CYP152 family member OleTJE from Jeotgalicoccus sp. ATCC 8456 has been well-known to catalyze the unusual one-step decarboxylation of free fatty acids towards the formation of terminal alkenes. Efforts to tun...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Jiang, Zhong Li, Cong Wang, Yongjin J. Zhou, Huifang Xu and Shengying Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:79
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  15. Marine microalga Nannochloropsis is a promising source for the production of renewable and sustainable biodiesel in replacement of depleting petroleum. Other than biodiesel, Nannochloropsis is a green and potenti...

    Authors: Yongjin He, Xiaofei Wang, Hehong Wei, Jianzhi Zhang, Bilian Chen and Feng Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:78
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  16. Filamentous fungi are harnessed as cell factories for the production of a diverse range of organic acids, proteins, and secondary metabolites. Growth and morphology have critical implications for product titre...

    Authors: Timothy C. Cairns, Xiaomei Zheng, Ping Zheng, Jibin Sun and Vera Meyer
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:77
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  17. Lignocellulose biomass is known as a recalcitrant material towards enzymatic hydrolysis, increasing the process cost in biorefinery. In nature, filamentous fungi naturally degrade lignocellulose, using an arse...

    Authors: Gabriel PaĂ«s, David Navarro, Yves Benoit, Senta Blanquet, Brigitte Chabbert, Bernard Chaussepied, Pedro M. Coutinho, Sylvie Durand, Igor V. Grigoriev, Mireille Haon, Laurent Heux, Charlène Launay, Antoine Margeot, Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Sana Raouche, Marie-NoĂ«lle Rosso…
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:76
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  18. As an important biomass raw material, the lignocellulose in bamboo is of significant value in energy conversion. The conversion of bamboo lignocellulose into fermentable reducing sugar, i.e. the degradation of...

    Authors: Chaobing Luo, Yuanqiu Li, Ying Chen, Chun Fu, Xiang Nong and Yaojun Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:75
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  19. Cyanobacteria have the potential to become next-generation cell factories due to their ability to use CO2, light and inorganic nutrients to produce a range of biomolecules of commercial interest. Synechococcus el...

    Authors: D. A. Russo, J. A. Z. Zedler, D. N. Wittmann, B. Möllers, R. K. Singh, T. S. Batth, B. van Oort, J. V. Olsen, M. J. Bjerrum and P. E. Jensen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:74
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  20. Butanol is an important biofuel and chemical. The development of butanol-tolerant strains and the identification of functional butanol-tolerant genes is essential for high-yield bio-butanol production due to t...

    Authors: Xueting He, Tingli Xue, Yuanyuan Ma, Junyan Zhang, Zhiquan Wang, Jiefang Hong, Lanfeng Hui, Jianjun Qiao, Hao Song and Minhua Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:73
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  21. Using a microbial fuel cell (MFC), we observed that a complex microbial community decomposed starch and transferred electrons to a graphite felt anode to generate current. In spite of the same reactor configur...

    Authors: Daisuke Sasaki, Kengo Sasaki, Yota Tsuge and Akihiko Kondo
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:72
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  22. Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a biocathode-driven process, in which electroautotrophic microorganisms can directly uptake electrons or indirectly via H2 from the cathode as energy sources and CO2 as only ca...

    Authors: Shihao Tian, Haoqi Wang, Zhiwei Dong, Yang Yang, Hao Yuan, Qiong Huang, Tian-shun Song and Jingjing Xie
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:71
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  23. Gut symbiotic microbiota plays a critical role in nutrient supply, digestion, and absorption. The bamboo snout beetle, Cyrtotrachelus buqueti, a common pest of several bamboo species, exhibits high lignocelluloly...

    Authors: Chaobing Luo, Yuanqiu Li, Ying Chen, Chun Fu, Wencong Long, Ximeng Xiao, Hong Liao and Yaojun Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:70
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  24. The utilization of Chlorella for the dual goals of biofuel production and wastewater nutrient removal is highly attractive. Moreover, this technology combined with flue gas (rich in CO2) cleaning is considered to...

    Authors: Weiguo Zhang, Jiangye Li, Zhenhua Zhang, Guangping Fan, Yuchun Ai, Yan Gao and Gang Pan
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:69
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  25. Squalene is currently used widely in the food, cosmetics, and medicine industries. It could also replace petroleum as a raw material for fuels. Microbial fermentation processes for squalene production have be...

    Authors: Wen Xu, Jia Yao, Lijun Liu, Xi Ma, Wei Li, Xiaojing Sun and Yang Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:68
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  26. The regulation of genes related to lipid metabolism by genetic engineering is an important way to increase the accumulation of lipids in microalgae. DNA binding with one finger (DOF) is a plant-specific transc...

    Authors: Bin Jia, Xinfeng Xie, Min Wu, Zijie Lin, Jianbo Yin, Sulin lou, Ying Huang and Zhangli Hu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:67
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  27. Microalgae are considered as a sustainable feedstock for the production of biofuels and other value-added compounds. In particular, Nannochloropsis spp. stand out from other microalgal species due to their capabi...

    Authors: Mihris Ibnu Saleem Naduthodi, Prarthana Mohanraju, Christian Südfeld, Sarah D’Adamo, Maria J. Barbosa and John van der Oost
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:66
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  28. l-Histidine biosynthesis is embedded in an intertwined metabolic network which renders microbial overproduction of this amino acid challenging. This is reflected in the few available examples of histidine produ.....

    Authors: Andreas Schwentner, André Feith, Eugenia Münch, Judith Stiefelmaier, Ira Lauer, Lorenzo Favilli, Christoph Massner, Johannes Öhrlein, Bastian Grund, Andrea Hüser, Ralf Takors and Bastian Blombach
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:65
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  29. α-l-Arabinofuranosidase (ARA), a debranching enzyme that can remove arabinose substituents from arabinoxylan and arabinoxylooligomers (AXOS), promotes the hydrolysis of the arabinoxylan fraction of biomass; howev...

    Authors: Donglin Xin, Xiang Chen, Peiyao Wen and Junhua Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:64
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  30. Kluyveromyces marxianus, the known fastest-growing eukaryote on the earth, has remarkable thermotolerance and capacity to utilize various agricultural residues to produce low-cost bioethanol, and hence is industr...

    Authors: Wenjuan Mo, Mengzhu Wang, Rongrong Zhan, Yao Yu, Yungang He and Hong Lu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:63
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  31. Several anaerobic bacteria produce butyric acid, a commodity chemical with use in chemical, pharmaceutical, food and feed industries, using complex media with acetate as a co-product. Butyrate titer of various...

    Authors: Liang Wang, Diane Chauliac, Brelan E. Moritz, Guimin Zhang, Lonnie O. Ingram and K. T. Shanmugam
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:62
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  32. Acetate, an economical industrial chemical, which is also the precursor of acetyl-CoA, could serve as an alternative substrate for biomanufacturing. This nontraditional substrate can be widely produced from sy...

    Authors: Qin Xu, Chenxiao Bai, Yiqi Liu, Lili Song, Lin Tian, Yunfeng Yan, Jinfeng Zhou, Xiangshan Zhou, Yuanxing Zhang and Menghao Cai
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:61
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  33. Biological routes for utilizing both carbohydrates and lignin are important to reach the ultimate goal of bioconversion of full carbon in biomass into biofuels and biochemicals. Recent biotechnology advances h...

    Authors: Xiaolu Li, Yucai He, Libing Zhang, Zhangyang Xu, Haoxi Ben, Matthew J. Gaffrey, Yongfu Yang, Shihui Yang, Joshua S. Yuan, Wei-Jun Qian and Bin Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:60
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  34. High-temperature fermentation is desirable for the industrial production of ethanol, which requires thermotolerant yeast strains. However, yeast thermotolerance is a complicated quantitative trait. The underst...

    Authors: Zhen Wang, Qi Qi, Yuping Lin, Yufeng Guo, Yanfang Liu and Qinhong Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:59
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:83

  35. Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are abundant in nature and best known for their role in the enzymatic conversion of recalcitrant polysaccharides such as chitin and cellulose. LPMO activity requires...

    Authors: Vincent G. H. Eijsink, Dejan Petrovic, Zarah Forsberg, Sophanit Mekasha, Åsmund K. Røhr, Anikó Várnai, Bastien Bissaro and Gustav Vaaje-Kolstad
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:58
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  36. The presence of lignin normally affects enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulose detrimentally. However, positive effects of lignin on enzymatic hydrolysis have been recently reported. Enzyme–lignin intera...

    Authors: Chenhuan Lai, Bo Yang, Zihe Lin, Yuan Jia, Caoxing Huang, Xin Li, Xiangyang Song and Qiang Yong
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:57
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  37. Lignin is a potential feedstock for microbial conversion into various chemicals. However, the microbial degradation rate of native or technical lignin is low, and chemical depolymerization is needed to obtain ...

    Authors: Krithika Ravi, Omar Y. Abdelaziz, Matthias Nöbel, Javier García-Hidalgo, Marie F. Gorwa-Grauslund, Christian P. Hulteberg and Gunnar Lidén
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:56
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  38. Lignocellulosic biomass is considered as a promising alternative to fossil resources for the production of fuels, materials and chemicals. Efficient enzymatic systems are needed to degrade the plant cell wall ...

    Authors: Camille Filiatrault-Chastel, David Navarro, Mireille Haon, Sacha Grisel, Isabelle Herpoël-Gimbert, Didier Chevret, Mathieu Fanuel, Bernard Henrissat, Senta Heiss-Blanquet, Antoine Margeot and Jean-Guy Berrin
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:55
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  40. To overcome the daunting technical and economic barriers of algal biofuels, we evaluated whether seawater can be a viable medium for economically producing filamentous Spirulina subsalsa as feedstock, using monos...

    Authors: Liqun Jiang, Jiongming Sun, Changliang Nie, Yizhen Li, Jackson Jenkins and Haiyan Pei
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:53
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  41. Zymomonas mobilis is a model bacterial ethanologen with many systems biology studies reported. Besides lignocellulosic ethanol production, Z. mobilis has been developed as a platform for biochemical production th...

    Authors: Yongfu Yang, Wei Shen, Ju Huang, Runxia Li, Yubei Xiao, Hui Wei, Yat-Chen Chou, Min Zhang, Michael E. Himmel, Shouwen Chen, Li Yi, Lixin Ma and Shihui Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:52
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  42. Liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment has been considered as one of the most industrially viable and environment-friendly methods for facilitating the transformation of lignocelluloses into biofuels through biol...

    Authors: Xiaolin Luo, Jing Liu, Peitao Zheng, Meng Li, Yang Zhou, Liulian Huang, Lihui Chen and Li Shuai
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:51
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  43. Inefficient utilization of glycerol by Clostridium beijerinckii (Cb) is a major impediment to adopting glycerol metabolism as a strategy for increasing NAD(P)H regeneration, which would in turn, alleviate the tox...

    Authors: Chidozie Victor Agu, Victor Ujor and Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:50
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  44. The thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus is a potential candidate for high-temperature fermentation. When K. marxianus was used for high-temperature ethanol fermentation, a fermentation arrest was observe...

    Authors: Pengsong Li, Xiaofen Fu, Ming Chen, Lei Zhang and Shizhong Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:49
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  45. Cellulose and hemicellulose are the two largest components in lignocellulosic biomass. Enzymes with activities towards cellulose and xylan have attracted great interest in the bioconversion of lignocellulosic ...

    Authors: Kui Wang, Ruoting Cao, Meiling Wang, Qibin Lin, Ruoting Zhan, Hui Xu and Sidi Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:48
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  46. Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage worldwide. In the manufacture of beer, various by-products and residues are generated, and the most abundant (85% of total by-products) are spent grains. Thanks to i...

    Authors: Simona Giacobbe, Alessandra Piscitelli, Francesca Raganati, Vincenzo Lettera, Giovanni Sannia, Antonio Marzocchella and Cinzia Pezzella
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:47
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  47. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are effective biofuel devices that use indigenous microbes to directly convert chemical energy from organics oxidation into bioelectric energy. To maximize energy-converting efficie...

    Authors: Bin Xu, John Chiwei Lan, Qingjiang Sun, Chungchuan Hsueh and Bor-Yann Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:46
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  48. Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and sustainable feedstock, which represents a promising raw material for the production of lactic acid via microbial fermentation. However, toxic compounds that affect mi...

    Authors: Martina Aulitto, Salvatore Fusco, David Benjamin Nickel, Simonetta Bartolucci, Patrizia Contursi and Carl Johan Franzén
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:45
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  49. Renewable energy has become a field of high interest over the past decade, and production of biofuels from cellulosic substrates has a particularly high potential as an alternative source of energy. Industrial...

    Authors: Amaranta Kahn, Sarah MoraĂŻs, Anastasia P. Galanopoulou, Daehwan Chung, Nicholas S. Sarai, Neal Hengge, Dimitris G. Hatzinikolaou, Michael E. Himmel, Yannick J. Bomble and Edward A. Bayer
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:44
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  50. Cyanobacteria are ideal model organisms to exploit photosynthetically derived electrons or fixed carbon for the biotechnological synthesis of high value compounds and energy carriers. Much effort is spent on t...

    Authors: Marcel Grund, Torsten Jakob, Christian Wilhelm, Bruno BĂĽhler and Andreas Schmid
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2019 12:43
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