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  1. The conversion of biomass-derived sugars via enzymatic hydrolysis for biofuel production is a challenge. Therefore, the search for microorganisms and key enzymes that increase the efficiency of the saccharific...

    Authors: Clelton A. Santos, LetĂ­cia M. Zanphorlin, Aline Crucello, Celisa C. C. Tonoli, Roberto Ruller, Maria A. C. Horta, Mario T. Murakami and Anete Pereira de Souza
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:71
  2. Microbes have been extensively explored for production of environment-friendly fuels and chemicals. The microbial fermentation pathways leading to these commodities usually involve many redox reactions. This m...

    Authors: Mukesh Saini, Si-Yu Li, Ze Win Wang, Chung-Jen Chiang and Yun-Peng Chao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:69
  3. The mining of high-performance enzyme systems is necessary to develop industrial lignocellulose bioconversion. Large amounts of cellulases and hemicellulases can be produced by Penicillium oxalicum. Hence, the en...

    Authors: Wenxia Song, Xiaolong Han, Yuanchao Qian, Guodong Liu, Guangshan Yao, Yaohua Zhong and Yinbo Qu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:68
  4. The large surplus of crude glycerol, as main low-value waste stream in biodiesel production, has led to the investigation of new possibilities for the production of value-added chemicals from this feedstock. N...

    Authors: Thiemo Zambanini, Eda Sarikaya, Wiebke Kleineberg, Joerg M. Buescher, Guido Meurer, Nick Wierckx and Lars M. Blank
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:67
  5. The enzymatic degradation of lignocellulosic materials by fungal enzyme systems has been extensively studied due to its effectiveness in the liberation of fermentable sugars for bioethanol production. Recently...

    Authors: Willian Daniel Hahn Schneider, Thiago Augusto Gonçalves, Cristiane Akemi Uchima, Matthew Brian Couger, Rolf Prade, Fabio Marcio Squina, Aldo José Pinheiro Dillon and Marli Camassola
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:66
  6. Authors: Zechong Guo, Aijuan Zhou, Chunxue Yang, Bin Liang, Thangavel Sangeetha, Zhangwei He, Ling Wang, Weiwei Cai, Aijie Wang and Wenzong Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:65

    The original article was published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2015 8:192

  7. For a commercially feasible microalgal triglyceride (TAG) production, high TAG productivities are required. The operational strategy affects TAG productivity but a systematic comparison between different strat...

    Authors: Giulia Benvenuti, Packo P. Lamers, Guido Breuer, Rouke Bosma, Ana Cerar, René H. Wijffels and Maria J. Barbosa
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:64
  8. Despite the recognition that feedstock composition influences biomass conversion efficiency, limited information exists as to how bioenergy crops with reduced recalcitrance can improve the economics and sustai...

    Authors: Andres F. Torres, Petronella M. Slegers, Cornelie M. M. Noordam-Boot, Oene Dolstra, Louis Vlaswinkel, Anton J. B. van Boxtel, Richard G. F. Visser and Luisa M. Trindade
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:63
  9. Carbon-based materials are commonly used as anodes in microbial fuel cells (MFCs), whereas metal and metal-oxide-based materials are not used frequently because of low electrical output. Stainless steel is a l...

    Authors: Takahiro Yamashita, Mitsuyoshi Ishida, Shiho Asakawa, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Harumi Sasaki, Akifumi Ogino, Yuichi Katayose, Tamao Hatta and Hiroshi Yokoyama
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:62
  10. The marine diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, has become a model for studying lipid metabolism and its triacylglycerol (TAG) synthesis pathway makes it an ideal target for metabolic engineering to improve lipid p...

    Authors: Ying-Fang Niu, Xiang Wang, Dong-Xiong Hu, Srinivasan Balamurugan, Da-Wei Li, Wei-Dong Yang, Jie-Sheng Liu and Hong-Ye Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:60
  11. Previous work has demonstrated that glycerol organosolv pretreatment can effectively improve the hydrolyzability of various lignocellulosic substrates. This pretreatment process strategy is ideal to integrate ...

    Authors: Fubao Fuelbiol Sun, Xiaoqin Zhao, Jiapeng Hong, Yanjun Tang, Liang Wang, Haiyan Sun, Xiang Li and Jinguang Hu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:59
  12. Geraniol is an acyclic monoterpene alcohol, which exhibits good prospect as a gasoline alternative. Geraniol is naturally encountered in plants at low concentrations and an attractive target for microbial engi...

    Authors: Wei Liu, Xin Xu, Rubing Zhang, Tao Cheng, Yujin Cao, Xiaoxiao Li, Jiantao Guo, Huizhou Liu and Mo Xian
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:58

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:131

  13. Biodiesel can replace petroleum diesel as it is produced from animal fats and vegetable oils, and it produces about 10 % (w/w) glycerol, which is a promising new industrial microbial carbon, as a major by-prod...

    Authors: Wei Jiang, Shizhen Wang, Yuanpeng Wang and Baishan Fang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:57
  14. Enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose involves the spatiotemporally correlated action of distinct polysaccharide chain cleaving activities confined to the surface of an insoluble substrate. Because cellulases diff...

    Authors: Manuel Eibinger, Thomas Zahel, Thomas Ganner, Harald Plank and Bernd Nidetzky
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:56
  15. Because of their high biomass productivity and their ability to accumulate high levels of energy-rich reserve compounds such as oils or starch, microalgae represent a promising feedstock for the production of ...

    Authors: Miriam Schulz-Raffelt, Vincent Chochois, Pascaline Auroy, Stéphan Cuiné, Emmanuelle Billon, David Dauvillée, Yonghua Li-Beisson and Gilles Peltier
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:55
  16. Arundo donax L. (Poaceae) is considered one of the most promising energy crops in the Mediterranean region because of its high biomass yield and low input requirements, but to date no ...

    Authors: Yuan Fu, Michele Poli, Gaurav Sablok, Bo Wang, Yanchun Liang, Nicola La Porta, Violeta Velikova, Francesco Loreto, Mingai Li and Claudio Varotto
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:54
  17. Biogas production is a very complex process due to the high complexity in diversity and interactions of the microorganisms mediating it, and only limited and diffuse knowledge exists about the variation of ta...

    Authors: Gang Luo, Ioannis A. Fotidis and Irini Angelidaki
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:51
  18. China is the largest sweet potato producer and exporter in the world. Sweet potato residues (SPRs) separated after extracting starch account for more than 10 % of the total dry matter of sweet potatoes. In Chi...

    Authors: Fangzhong Wang, Yi Jiang, Wei Guo, Kangle Niu, Ruiqing Zhang, Shaoli Hou, Mingyu Wang, Yong Yi, Changxiong Zhu, Chunjiang Jia and Xu Fang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:50
  19. Pleurotus ostreatus is the second edible mushroom worldwide, and a model fungus for delignification applications, with the advantage of growing on woody and nonwoody feedstocks. Its se...

    Authors: Elena Fernández-Fueyo, Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas, María F. López-Lucendo, Marta Pérez-Boada, Jorge Rencoret, Ana Gutiérrez, Antonio G. Pisabarro, Lucía Ramírez and Angel T. Martínez
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:49
  20. Syntrophic acetate oxidation (SAO) is the predominant pathway for methane production in high ammonia anaerobic digestion processes. The bacteria (SAOB) occupying this niche and the metabolic pathway are poorly...

    Authors: Bettina MĂĽller, Li Sun, Maria Westerholm and Anna SchnĂĽrer
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:48
  21. Nowadays, bioflocculation is considered as a potential technology that could be able to alleviate microalgae dewatering cost regarded as the cornerstone hindrance of their full-scale application. However, most...

    Authors: Theoneste Ndikubwimana, Xianhai Zeng, Theophile Murwanashyaka, Emmanuel Manirafasha, Ning He, Wenyao Shao and Yinghua Lu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:47
  22. Sustainable and economically feasible ways to produce ethanol or other liquid fuels are becoming increasingly relevant due to the limited supply of fossil fuels and the environmental consequences associated wi...

    Authors: Jianming Liu, Shruti Harnal Dantoft, Anders WĂĽrtz, Peter Ruhdal Jensen and Christian Solem
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:33
  23. Recently, there has been interest in establishing a monocot C4 model species with a small genome, short lifecycle, and capacity for genetic transformation. Setaria viridis has been adopted to fill this role, sinc...

    Authors: Antony P. Martin, William M. Palmer, Christopher Brown, Christin Abel, John E. Lunn, Robert T. Furbank and Christopher P. L. Grof
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:45
  24. Butanol isomers are regarded as more suitable fuel substitutes than bioethanol. n-Butanol is naturally produced by some Clostridia species, but due to inherent problems with clostridial fermentations, industriall...

    Authors: Virginia Schadeweg and Eckhard Boles
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:44
  25. The genome of Schizophyllum commune encodes a diverse repertoire of degradative enzymes for plant cell wall breakdown. Recent comparative genomics study suggests that this wood decayer likely has a mode of biodeg...

    Authors: Ning Zhu, Jiawen Liu, Jinshui Yang, Yujian Lin, Yi Yang, Lei Ji, Meng Li and Hongli Yuan
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:42
  26. Enzymatic degradation of plant biomass requires a complex mixture of many different enzymes. Like most fungi, thermophilic Myceliophthora species therefore have a large set of enzymes targeting different linkages...

    Authors: Maria Victoria Aguilar-Pontes, Miaomiao Zhou, Sjors van der Horst, Bart Theelen, Ronald P. de Vries and Joost van den Brink
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:41
  27. Pseudomonas putida is a promising host for the bioproduction of chemicals, but its industrial applications are significantly limited by its obligate aerobic character. The aim of this ...

    Authors: Bin Lai, Shiqin Yu, Paul V. Bernhardt, Korneel Rabaey, Bernardino Virdis and Jens O. Krömer
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:39

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:155

  28. Algal biofilm reactors represent a promising cultivation system that can economically produce biomass without the need for expensive harvesting operations. A critical component of algal biofilm systems is the ...

    Authors: Martin Gross, Xuefei Zhao, Vernon Mascarenhas and Zhiyou Wen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:38
  29. Authors: Hong Luo, Wenming Zhao, Yanqing Wang, Yan Xia, Xiaoyuan Wu, Limin Zhang, Bixia Tang, Junwei Zhu, Lu Fang, Zhenglin Du, Wubishet A. Bekele, Shuaishuai Tai, David R. Jordan, Ian D. Godwin, Rod J. Snowdon, Emma S. Mace…
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:37

    The original article was published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:6

  30. Cellulose, an abundant and renewable polysaccharides, constitutes the largest resource for bioconversion of biofuels. Plant polysaccharides hydrolysis is catalyzed by cellulases, which include endoglucanases, ...

    Authors: Yu Zhou, Xu Wang, Wei Wei, Jimin Xu, Wei Wang, Zhongwen Xie, Zhengzhu Zhang, Hongchen Jiang, Qi Wang and Chaoling Wei
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:36
  31. During conversion of bamboo into biofuels and chemicals, it is necessary to efficiently predict the chemical composition and digestibility of biomass. However, traditional methods for determination of lignocel...

    Authors: Zhong Yang, Kang Li, Maomao Zhang, Donglin Xin and Junhua Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:35
  32. Strategies to improve copper-catalyzed alkaline hydrogen peroxide (Cu-AHP) pretreatment of hybrid poplar were investigated. These improvements included a combination of increasing hydrolysis yields, while simu...

    Authors: Aditya Bhalla, Namita Bansal, Ryan J. Stoklosa, Mackenzie Fountain, John Ralph, David B. Hodge and Eric L. Hegg
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:34
  33. Higher ratios of syringyl-to-guaiacyl (S/G) lignin components of Populus were shown to improve sugar release by enzymatic hydrolysis using commercial blends. Cellulolytic microbes are often robust biomass hydrol...

    Authors: Alexandru Dumitrache, Hannah Akinosho, Miguel Rodriguez Jr., Xianzhi Meng, Chang Geun Yoo, Jace Natzke, Nancy L. Engle, Robert W. Sykes, Timothy J. Tschaplinski, Wellington Muchero, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Brian H. Davison and Steven D. Brown
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:31
  34. There are many different types of pretreatment carried out to prepare cellulosic substrates for fermentation. In this study, one- and two-stage hydrothermal pretreatment were carried out to determine their eff...

    Authors: Andrew Guilliams, Sivakumar Pattathil, Deidre Willies, Matt Richards, Yunqiao Pu, Sindhu Kandemkavil and Erin Wiswall
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:30
  35. To understand the intrinsic role of hydrolytic enzymes in sludge treatment, particularly their effect on the digestibility and dewaterability of sludge, activated sludge flocs were disintegrated using various...

    Authors: Fan LĂĽ, Jingwen Wang, Liming Shao and Pinjing He
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:29
  36. Co-production of chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass alongside fuels holds promise for improving the economic outlook of integrated biorefineries. In current biochemical conversion processes that use thermo...

    Authors: Davinia SalvachĂşa, Ali Mohagheghi, Holly Smith, Michael F. A. Bradfield, Willie Nicol, Brenna A. Black, Mary J. Biddy, Nancy Dowe and Gregg T. Beckham
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:28
  37. The primary components of lignocellulosic biomass such as sorghum bagasse are cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Each component can be utilized as a sustainable resource for producing biofuels and bio-based...

    Authors: Hiroshi Teramura, Kengo Sasaki, Tomoko Oshima, Fumio Matsuda, Mami Okamoto, Tomokazu Shirai, Hideo Kawaguchi, Chiaki Ogino, Ko Hirano, Takashi Sazuka, Hidemi Kitano, Jun Kikuchi and Akihiko Kondo
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:27
  38. Biogas production is an economically attractive technology that has gained momentum worldwide over the past years. Biogas is produced by a biologically mediated process, widely known as “anaerobic digestion.” ...

    Authors: Stefano Campanaro, Laura Treu, Panagiotis G. Kougias, Davide De Francisci, Giorgio Valle and Irini Angelidaki
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:26
  39. Exploring microorganisms especially bacteria associated with the degradation of lignocellulosic biomass shows great potentials in biofuels production. The rice endophytic bacterium Pantoea ananatis Sd-1 with stro...

    Authors: Jiangshan Ma, Keke Zhang, Hongdong Liao, Stanton B. Hector, Xiaowei Shi, Jianglin Li, Bin Liu, Ting Xu, Chunyi Tong, Xuanming Liu and Yonghua Zhu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:25
  40. Clostridium acetobutylicum is a gram-positive, spore-forming, anaerobic bacterium capable of converting various sugars and polysaccharides into solvents (acetone, butanol, and ethanol)...

    Authors: Christian Croux, Ngoc-Phuong-Thao Nguyen, Jieun Lee, CĂ©line Raynaud, Florence Saint-Prix, Maria Gonzalez-Pajuelo, Isabelle Meynial-Salles and Philippe Soucaille
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:23
  41. Compost habitats sustain a vast ensemble of microbes specializing in the degradation of lignocellulosic plant materials and are thus important both for their roles in the global carbon cycle and as potential s...

    Authors: Cheng Wang, Da Dong, Haoshu Wang, Karin MĂĽller, Yong Qin, Hailong Wang and Weixiang Wu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:22
  42. Explaining the reduction of hydrolysis rate during lignocellulose hydrolysis is a challenge for the understanding and modelling of the process. This article reports the changes of cellulose and lignin surface...

    Authors: Ville Pihlajaniemi, Mika Henrikki Sipponen, Anne Kallioinen, Antti Nyyssölä and Simo Laakso
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:18