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Saccharum species such as sugarcane and energy cane are key players in the expanding bioeconomy for sugars, bioenergy, and production of high-value proteins. Genomic tools such as culm...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:172
Published on: 4 July 2017
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Trichoderma reesei (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina) QM6a is a model fungus for a broad spectrum of physiological phenomena, including plant cell wall degradation, industrial production of ...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:170
Published on: 3 July 2017
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Separating acidification and methanogenic steps in anaerobic digestion processes can help to optimize the process and contribute to producing valuable sub-products such as methane, hydrogen and organic acids. ...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:171
Published on: 3 July 2017
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Corynebacterium glutamicum is an important platform organism for industrial biotechnology to produce amino acids, organic acids, bioplastic monomers, and biofuels. The metabolic flexib...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:169
Published on: 30 June 2017
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The microalga Porphyridium purpureum within Rhodophyta abundantly produces several valuable proteins, polysaccharides, pigments and long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid; it is especially effective in accumulatin...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:168
Published on: 26 June 2017
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Recent advancements in omics measurement technologies have led to an ever-increasing amount of available experimental data that necessitate systems-oriented methodologies for efficient and systematic integrati...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:166
Published on: 26 June 2017
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Duckweed is considered a promising source of energy due to its high starch content and rapid growth rate. Starch accumulation in duckweed involves complex processes that depend on the balanced expression of ge...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:167
Published on: 26 June 2017
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Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant resource on earth. Lignocellulose is mainly composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin. The special construction of three kinds of constituents led to the pr...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:165
Published on: 24 June 2017
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The thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus shows promise as an industrial host for the biochemical production of fuels and chemicals. Wild-type strains are known to ferment high titers of ethanol and can ef...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:164
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Clostridium thermocellum utilizes a wide variety of free and cellulosomal cellulases and accessory enzymes to hydrolyze polysaccharides present in complex substrates. To date only a fe...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:163
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Lignin typically inhibits enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulosic biomass, but certain organosolv lignins or lignosulfonates enhance enzymatic hydrolysis. The hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions between lign...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:162
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Genomic and proteomic analysis are potent tools for metabolic characterization of microorganisms. Although cellulose usually triggers cellulase production in cellulolytic fungi, the secretion of the different ...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:161
Published on: 23 June 2017
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Bioenergy sorghum accumulates 75% of shoot biomass in stem internodes. Grass stem internodes are formed during vegetative growth and elongate in response to developmental and environmental signals. To identify...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:159
Published on: 21 June 2017
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A microbial cell factory with high yield and productivity are prerequisites for an economically feasible bio-based chemical industry. However, cell factories that show a kinetic imbalance between glycolysis an...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:160
Published on: 21 June 2017
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Improved carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) are needed to fulfill the goal of producing food, feed, fuel, chemicals, and materials from biomass. Little is known about how the diverse microbial communities i...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:158
Published on: 21 June 2017
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Modern biorefineries require enzymatic cocktails of improved efficiency to generate fermentable sugars from lignocellulosic biomass. Cellulolytic fungi, among other microorganisms, have demonstrated the highes...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:156
Published on: 19 June 2017
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Current single-stage delignification-pretreatment technologies to overcome lignocellulosic biomass recalcitrance are usually achieved at the expense of compromising the recovery of the polysaccharide component...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:157
Published on: 19 June 2017
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Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:155
Published on: 19 June 2017
The original article was published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:39
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Biomass pretreatment using certain ionic liquids (ILs) is very efficient, generally producing a substrate that is amenable to saccharification with fermentable sugar yields approaching theoretical limits. Alth...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:154
Published on: 15 June 2017
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Microalgae are a promising feedstock for biofuel production. Microalgal metabolic pathways are heavily influenced by environmental factors. For instance, lipid metabolism can be induced by nitrogen-limiting co...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:153
Published on: 15 June 2017
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Fungi play a major role in the global carbon cycle because of their ability to utilize plant biomass (polysaccharides, proteins, and lignin) as carbon source. Due to the complexity and heterogenic composition ...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:152
Published on: 12 June 2017
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The presence of low complexity and repeated regions in genomes often results in difficulties to assemble sequencing data into full chromosomes. However, the availability of full genome scaffolds is essential t...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:151
Published on: 12 June 2017
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Syngas fermentation is a promising option for the production of biocommodities due to its abundance and compatibility with anaerobic fermentation. Using thermophilic production strains in a syngas fermentation...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:150
Published on: 12 June 2017
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Pectin is an abundant component in many fruit and vegetable wastes and could therefore be an excellent resource for biorefinery, but is currently underutilized. Fungal pectinases already play a crucial role fo...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:149
Published on: 12 June 2017
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Butanol as an important chemical and potential fuel could be produced via ABE fermentation from lignocellulosic biomass. The use of food-related feedstocks such as maize and sugar cane may not be a sustainable...
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:148
Published on: 10 June 2017
