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  1. Due to its chemical composition and abundance, lignocellulosic biomass is an attractive feedstock source for global bioenergy production. However, chemical composition variations interfere with the success of ...

    Authors: Meng Li, Jun Wang, Fu Du, Boubacar Diallo and Guang Hui Xie
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:206
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  2. The most advanced strains of xylose-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae still utilize xylose far less efficiently than glucose, despite the extensive metabolic and evolutionary engineering applied in their develo...

    Authors: Vera Novy, Ruifei Wang, Johan O. Westman, Carl Johan Franzén and Bernd Nidetzky
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:205
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  3. High-temperature fermentation (HTF) technology is expected to reduce the cost of bioconversion of biomass to fuels or chemicals. For stable HTF, the development of a thermotolerant microbe is indispensable. El...

    Authors: Kannikar Charoensuk, Tomoko Sakurada, Amina Tokiyama, Masayuki Murata, Tomoyuki Kosaka, Pornthap Thanonkeo and Mamoru Yamada
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:204
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  4. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a promising host for lignocellulosic bioethanol production, is unable to metabolize xylose. In attempts to confer xylose utilization ability in S. cerevisiae, a number of xylos...

    Authors: Satoshi Katahira, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Shigeharu Moriya, Risa Nagura, Nobuki Tada, Noriko Yasutani, Moriya Ohkuma, Toru Onishi and Kenro Tokuhiro
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:203
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  5. Single cell oil (SCO) production from lignocelluloses by oleaginous microorganisms is still high in production cost, making the subsequent production of biofuels inviable economically in such an era of low oil...

    Authors: Chen Zhao, Hao Fang and Shaolin Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:202
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  6. In Europe, almost 87.6 million tonnes of food waste are produced. Despite the high biological value of food waste, traditional management solutions do not consider it as a precious resource. Many studies have ...

    Authors: Bianca Colombo, Francesca Favini, Barbara Scaglia, Tommy Pepè Sciarria, Giuliana D’Imporzano, Michele Pognani, Anna Alekseeva, Giorgio Eisele, Cesare Cosentino and Fabrizio Adani
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:201
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  7. Degradation of pectin in lignocellulosic materials is one of the key steps for biofuel production. Biological hydrolysis of pectin, i.e., degradation by pectinolytic microbes and enzymes, is an attractive para...

    Authors: Man Zhou, Peng Guo, Tao Wang, Lina Gao, Huijun Yin, Cheng Cai, Jie Gu and Xin LĂĽ
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:198
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  8. 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...

    Authors: Xiaoqing Wang, Davinia Salvachúa, Violeta Sànchez i Nogué, William E. Michener, Adam D. Bratis, John R. Dorgan and Gregg T. Beckham
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:200
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  9. 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...

    Authors: Changman Kim, Mi Yeon Kim, Iain Michie, Byong-Hun Jeon, Giuliano C. Premier, Sunghoon Park and Jung Rae Kim
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:199
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  10. 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...

    Authors: Daniel Jaeger, Anika Winkler, Jan H. Mussgnug, Jörn Kalinowski, Alexander Goesmann and Olaf Kruse
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:197
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  11. 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...

    Authors: Feng Li, Yuanxiu Li, Liming Sun, Xiaofei Li, Changji Yin, Xingjuan An, Xiaoli Chen, Yao Tian and Hao Song
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:196
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  12. 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...

    Authors: Peter Ryden, Maria-Nefeli Efthymiou, Teddy A. M. Tindyebwa, Adam Elliston, David R. Wilson, Keith W. Waldron and Pradeep K. Malakar
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:195
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  13. 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 ...

    Authors: Rui Liu, Ling Chen, Yanping Jiang, Gen Zou and Zhihua Zhou
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:194
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  14. 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...

    Authors: Jie Wang, Michael Chae, Dominic Sauvageau and David C. Bressler
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:193
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  15. 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 ...

    Authors: Dong Tian, Jinguang Hu, Jie Bao, Richard P. Chandra, Jack N. Saddler and Canhui Lu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:192
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  16. 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 ...

    Authors: Farzad Taheripour, Xin Zhao and Wallace E. Tyner
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:191
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  17. 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...

    Authors: Hannes Löwe, Karina Hobmeier, Manuel Moos, Andreas Kremling and Katharina Pflüger-Grau
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:190
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  18. 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.

    Authors: Xiao-Le Wu, Bing-Zhi Li, Wen-Zheng Zhang, Kai Song, Hao Qi, Jun-biao Dai and Ying-Jin Yuan
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:189
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  19. 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...

    Authors: Giulia Benvenuti, Jesús Ruiz, Packo P. Lamers, Rouke Bosma, René H. Wijffels and Maria J. Barbosa
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:188
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  20. 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...

    Authors: Nodumo Nokulunga Zulu, Jennifer Popko, Krzysztof Zienkiewicz, Pablo Tarazona, Cornelia Herrfurth and Ivo Feussner
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:187
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  21. 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...

    Authors: Viktor Klassen, Olga Blifernez-Klassen, Daniel Wibberg, Anika Winkler, Jörn Kalinowski, Clemens Posten and Olaf Kruse
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:186
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  22. 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...

    Authors: Nannan Zhang, Zejing Mao, Ling Luo, Xia Wan, Fenghong Huang and Yangmin Gong
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:185
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  23. 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...

    Authors: Jacob D. Crowe, Nicholas Feringa, Sivakumar Pattathil, Brian Merritt, Cliff Foster, Dayna Dines, Rebecca G. Ong and David B. Hodge
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:184
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  25. 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...

    Authors: Ajaya K. Biswal, Li Tan, Melani A. Atmodjo, Jaclyn DeMartini, Ivana Gelineo-Albersheim, Kimberly Hunt, Ian M. Black, Sushree S. Mohanty, David Ryno, Charles E. Wyman and Debra Mohnen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:182
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  26. 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...

    Authors: Yun Huang, Jun Cheng, Hongxiang Lu, Yong He, Junhu Zhou and Kefa Cen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:181
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  27. 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...

    Authors: Way Cern Khor, Stephen Andersen, Han Vervaeren and Korneel Rabaey
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:180
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  28. 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...

    Authors: Barry Goodell, Yuan Zhu, Seong Kim, Kabindra Kafle, Daniel Eastwood, Geoffrey Daniel, Jody Jellison, Makoto Yoshida, Leslie Groom, Sai Venkatesh Pingali and Hugh O’Neill
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:179
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  29. Rhodopseudomonas palustris is a versatile microbe that encounters an innate redox imbalance while growing photoheterotrophically with reduced substrates. The resulting excess in reduci...

    Authors: Devin F. R. Doud, Eric C. Holmes, Hanno Richter, Bastian Molitor, Georg Jander and Largus T. Angenent
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:178
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  30. 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...

    Authors: Piotr Chylenski, Dejan M. Petrović, Gerdt Müller, Marie Dahlström, Oskar Bengtsson, Martin Lersch, Matti Siika-aho, Svein Jarle Horn and Vincent G. H. Eijsink
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:177
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  31. 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...

    Authors: Germano Siqueira, Valdeir Arantes, Jack N. Saddler, André Ferraz and Adriane M. F. Milagres
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:176
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  32. 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...

    Authors: Sriram Satagopan, Yuan Sun, Jon R. Parquette and F. Robert Tabita
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:175
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  33. Photosynthetic oleaginous microalgae are considered promising feedstocks for biofuels. The marine microalga, Nannochloropsis oceanica, has been attracting ever-increasing interest because of its fast growth, high...

    Authors: Hehong Wei, Ying Shi, Xiaonian Ma, Yufang Pan, Hanhua Hu, Yantao Li, Ming Luo, Henri Gerken and Jin Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:174
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  35. 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...

    Authors: San-Ji Gao, Mona B. Damaj, Jong-Won Park, Xiao-Bin Wu, Sheng-Ren Sun, Ru-Kai Chen and T. Erik Mirkov
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:172
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  36. 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. ...

    Authors: Christian Abendroth, Claudia Simeonov, Juli PeretĂł, Oreto AntĂşnez, Raquel Gavidia, Olaf Luschnig and Manuel Porcar
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:171
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  37. Trichoderma reesei (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina) QM6a is a model fungus for a broad spectrum of physiological phenomena, including plant cell wall degradation, industrial production of ...

    Authors: Wan-Chen Li, Chien-Hao Huang, Chia-Ling Chen, Yu-Chien Chuang, Shu-Yun Tung and Ting-Fang Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:170
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  38. Corynebacterium glutamicum is an important platform organism for industrial biotechnology to produce amino acids, organic acids, bioplastic monomers, and biofuels. The metabolic flexib...

    Authors: Yu Zhang, Jingyi Cai, Xiuling Shang, Bo Wang, Shuwen Liu, Xin Chai, Tianwei Tan, Yun Zhang and Tingyi Wen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:169
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  39. 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...

    Authors: Kailin Jiao, Jingyu Chang, Xianhai Zeng, I-Son Ng, Zongyuan Xiao, Yong Sun, Xing Tang and Lu Lin
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:168
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  40. 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...

    Authors: Changjiang Yu, Xiaowen Zhao, Guang Qi, Zetao Bai, Yu Wang, Shumin Wang, Yubin Ma, Qian Liu, Ruibo Hu and Gongke Zhou
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:167
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  41. 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...

    Authors: Ljubisa Miskovic, Susanne Alff-Tuomala, Keng Cher Soh, Dorothee Barth, Laura Salusjärvi, Juha-Pekka Pitkänen, Laura Ruohonen, Merja Penttilä and Vassily Hatzimanikatis
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:166
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  42. 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...

    Authors: Jian Pang, Zhan-Ying Liu, Min Hao, Yong-Feng Zhang and Qing-Sheng Qi
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:165
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  43. 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...

    Authors: Ann-Kathrin Löbs, Ronja Engel, Cory Schwartz, Andrew Flores and Ian Wheeldon
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:164
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  45. Lignin typically inhibits enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulosic biomass, but certain organosolv lignins or lignosulfonates enhance enzymatic hydrolysis. The hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions between lign...

    Authors: Yang Huang, Shaolong Sun, Chen Huang, Qiang Yong, Thomas Elder and Maobing Tu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:162
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  46. 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 ...

    Authors: Laura I. de Eugenio, Juan A. Méndez-Líter, Manuel Nieto-Domínguez, Lola Alonso, Jesús Gil-Muñoz, Jorge Barriuso, Alicia Prieto and María Jesús Martínez
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:161
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  48. 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...

    Authors: Tesfamichael H. Kebrom, Brian McKinley and John E. Mullet
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:159
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  49. 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...

    Authors: Casper Wilkens, Peter Kamp Busk, Bo Pilgaard, Wen-Jing Zhang, Kåre L. Nielsen, Per Halkjær Nielsen and Lene Lange
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:158
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