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  1. Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a perennial C4 warm-season grass known for its high-biomass yield and wide environmental adaptability, making it an ideal bioenergy crop. Despite its potential, switchgrass se...

    Authors: Shumeng Zhang, Jiayang Ma, Weiwei Wang, Chao Zhang, Fengli Sun and Yajun Xi
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:126
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  2. Ionizing radiation has been used for mutagenesis or material modification. The potential to use microalgae as a platform for antimicrobial production has been reported, but little work has been done to advance...

    Authors: Shubham Kumar Dubey, Seung Sik Lee and Jin-Hong Kim
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:125
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  3. Production of cheese whey in the EU exceeded 55 million tons in 2022, resulting in lactose-rich effluents that pose significant environmental challenges. To address this issue, the present study investigated c...

    Authors: Mattia Colacicco, Claudia De Micco, Stefano Macrelli, Gennaro Agrimi, Matty Janssen, Maurizio Bettiga and Isabella Pisano
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:124
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  4. The integration of anaerobic digestion into bio-based industries can create synergies that help render anaerobic digestion self-sustaining. Two-stage digesters with separate acidification stages allow for the ...

    Authors: Maximilian Barth, Magdalena Werner, Pascal Otto, Benjamin Richwien, Samira Bahramsari, Maximilian Krause, Benjamin Schwan and Christian Abendroth
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:123
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  5. The ability of lignocellulose degradation for filamentous fungi is always attributed to their efficient CAZymes system with broader applications in bioenergy development. ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase-activat...

    Authors: Tuo Li, Qin Wang, Yang Liu, Jiaguo Wang, Han Zhu, Linhua Cao, Dongyang Liu and Qirong Shen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:122
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  6. From both economic and environmental perspectives, ethylene glycol, the principal constituent in the degradation of PET, emerges as an optimal feedstock for microbial cell factories. Traditional methods for co...

    Authors: Junxi Chi, Pengju Wang, Yidan Ma, Xingmiao Zhu, Leilei Zhu, Ming Chen, Changhao Bi and Xueli Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:121
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  7. Laccases can oxidize a broad spectrum of substrates, offering promising applications in various sectors, such as bioremediation, biomass fractionation in future biorefineries, and synthesis of biochemicals and...

    Authors: Xing Wan, Sazzad Shahrear, Shea Wen Chew, Francisco Vilaplana and Miia R. Mäkelä
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:120
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  8. Clostridium autoethanogenum is an acetogenic bacterium that autotrophically converts carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2) gases into bioproducts and fuels via the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway (WLP). To facilit...

    Authors: Megan E. Davin, R. Adam Thompson, Richard J. Giannone, Lucas W. Mendelson, Dana L. Carper, Madhavi Z. Martin, Michael E. Martin, Nancy L. Engle, Timothy J. Tschaplinski, Steven D. Brown and Robert L. Hettich
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:119
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  9. In recent years, lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) that oxidatively cleave cellulose have gained increasing attention in cellulose fiber modification. LPMOs are relatively small copper-dependent redo...

    Authors: Fredrik G. Støpamo, Irina Sulaeva, David Budischowsky, Jenni Rahikainen, Kaisa Marjamaa, Kristiina Kruus, Antje Potthast, Vincent G. H. Eijsink and Anikó Várnai
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:118
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  10. Lignocellulose is a renewable and sustainable resource used to produce second-generation biofuel ethanol to cope with the resource and energy crisis. Furfural is the most toxic inhibitor of Saccharomyces cerevisi...

    Authors: Junle Ren, Miaomiao Zhang, Xiaopeng Guo, Xiang Zhou, Nan Ding, Cairong Lei, Chenglin Jia, Yajuan Wang, Jingru Zhao, Ziyi Dong and Dong Lu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:117
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  11. Xyloglucan oligosaccharides (XyGOs) are highly branched, complex carbohydrates with a variety of chemical and biotechnological applications. Due to the regular repeating pattern of sidechain substitution of th...

    Authors: Andrew M. Rodd, William M. Mawhinney and Harry Brumer
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:116
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  12. Industrial biotechnology heavily relies on the microbial conversion of carbohydrate substrates derived from sugar- or starch-rich crops. This dependency poses significant challenges in the face of a rising pop...

    Authors: Manman Sun, Alex Xiong Gao, Xiuxia Liu, Zhonghu Bai, Peng Wang and Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:115
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  13. Lipids produced using oleaginous yeast cells are an emerging feedstock to manufacture commercially valuable oleochemicals ranging from pharmaceuticals to lipid-derived biofuels. Production of biofuels using ol...

    Authors: Shivali Banerjee, Bruce S. Dien and Vijay Singh
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:114
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  14. The yeast Starmerella bombicola is renowned for its highly efficient sophorolipid production, reaching titers and productivities of (over) 200 g/L and 2 g/(L h), respectively. This inherent efficiency has led to ...

    Authors: Sophie L. K. W. Roelants, Stijn Bovijn, Elvira Bytyqi, Nicolas de Fooz, Goedele Luyten, Martijn Castelein, Thibo Van de Craen, Zhoujian Diao, Karolien Maes, Tom Delmulle, Maarten De Mol, Sofie L. De Maeseneire, Bart Devreese and Wim K. Soetaert
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:113
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  15. Rapid monitoring of biomass conversion processes using techniques such as near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy can be substantially quicker and less labor-, resource-, and energy-intensive than conventional measur...

    Authors: Zofia Tillman, Kevin Gray and Edward Wolfrum
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:112
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  16. Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG), a predominant photosynthetic membrane lipid derived from plants and microalgae, has important applications in feed additives, medicine, and other fields. The low content an...

    Authors: Xiaosong Gu, Yumei Shi, Changxin Luo and Jintao Cheng
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:111
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  17. Due to increasing ecological concerns, microbial production of biochemicals from sustainable carbon sources like acetate is rapidly gaining importance. However, to successfully establish large-scale production...

    Authors: Regina Kutscha, Tamara Tomin, Ruth Birner-Gruenberger, Pavlos Stephanos Bekiaris, Steffen Klamt and Stefan PflĂĽgl
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:110
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  18. The 2-phenylethanol (2-PE) tolerance phenotype is crucial to the production of 2-PE, and Pdr1p mutation can significantly increase the tolerance of 2-PE in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. However, its underlying molecu...

    Authors: Huili Xia, Na Song, Daoqi Liu, Rong Zhou, Lingling Shangguan, Xiong Chen and Jun Dai
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:109
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  19. The production of platform chemicals from renewable energy sources is a crucial step towards a post-fossil economy. This study reports on the production of acetoin and 2,3-butanediol heterotrophically with fru...

    Authors: Janek R. Weiler, Nikolai JĂĽrgensen, Monica Cornejo Infante, Melanie T. Knoll and Johannes Gescher
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:108
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  20. 2-Phenylethanol (2-PE) is one of the most widely used spices. Recently, 2-PE has also been considered a potential aviation fuel booster. However, the lack of scientific understanding of the 2-PE biosynthetic p...

    Authors: Lijing Sun, Ying Gao, Renjie Sun, Ling Liu, Liangcai Lin and Cuiying Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:107
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  21. Trichoderma reesei is known for its ability to produce large amounts of extracellular proteins and is one of the most important industrially used filamentous fungus. Xylanase regulator 1 (XYR1) is the master regu...

    Authors: Emmi Sveholm, Hans Mattila, Nina Aro, Mari Valkonen, Tanja Paasela and Tiina M. Pakula
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:106
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  22. Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is one of the most important oil crops and a wildly cultivated horticultural crop. The petals of B. napus serve to protect the reproductive organs and attract pollinators and tourists...

    Authors: Huaixin Li, Yutian Xia, Wang Chen, Yanru Chen, Xin Cheng, Hongbo Chao, Shipeng Fan, Haibo Jia and Maoteng Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:105
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  24. Itaconic acid is a promising bio-based building block for the synthesis of polymers, plastics, fibers and other materials. In recent years, Ustilago cynodontis has emerged as an additional itaconate producing non...

    Authors: Philipp Ernst, Katharina Maria Saur, Robert Kiefel, Paul-Joachim Niehoff, Ronja Weskott, Jochen BĂĽchs, Andreas Jupke and Nick Wierckx
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:103
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  25. 2-Naphthol, a carbocation scavenger, is known to mitigate lignin condensation during the acidic processing of lignocellulosic biomass, which may benefit downstream processing of the resulting materials. Conseq...

    Authors: Andreas Averheim, Stefan Stagge, Leif J. Jönsson, Sylvia H. Larsson and Mikael Thyrel
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:102
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  26. Microbial biopolymers such as poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) are emerging as promising alternatives for sustainable production of biodegradable bioplastics. Their promise is heightened by the potential utilisati...

    Authors: Anna Santin, Flavio Collura, Garima Singh, Maria Silvia Morlino, Edoardo Bizzotto, Alessandra Bellan, Ameya Pankaj Gupte, Lorenzo Favaro, Stefano Campanaro, Laura Treu and Tomas Morosinotto
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:101
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  27. The development of alternative carbon sources is important for reducing the cost of heterotrophic microalgae cultivation. Among cheap feedstocks, galactose is one of the most abundant sugars and can be easily ...

    Authors: Shengjie Wu, Xiao Cheng, Qinyun Xu and Shikai Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:100
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  28. Taxol serves as an efficient natural anticancer agent with extensive applications in the treatment of diverse malignancies. Although advances in synthetic biology have enabled the de novo synthesis of taxol pr...

    Authors: Jialing Zhong, Yushu Wang, Zhuoyang Chen, Yaliqin Yalikun, Lin He, Tiangang Liu and Gang Ma
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:99
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  29. Amidst the escalating carbon dioxide levels resulting from fossil fuel consumption, there is a pressing need for sustainable, bio-based alternatives to underpin future global economies. Single-carbon feedstock...

    Authors: Manja Mølgaard Severinsen, Simone Bachleitner, Viola Modenese, Özge Ata and Diethard Mattanovich
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:98
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  30. The phenolic polymer lignin is one of the primary chemical constituents of the plant secondary cell wall. Due to the inherent plasticity of lignin biosynthesis, several phenolic monomers have been shown to be ...

    Authors: Faride Unda, Lisanne de Vries, Steven D. Karlen, Jordan Rainbow, Chengcheng Zhang, Laura E. Bartley, Hoon Kim, John Ralph and Shawn D. Mansfield
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:97
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  31. Bacterial epigenetics, particularly through DNA methylation, exerts significant influence over various biological processes such as DNA replication, uptake, and gene regulation in bacteria. In this review, we ...

    Authors: Changhee Won and Sung Sun Yim
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:96
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  32. Propionate is a food preservative and platform chemical, but no biological process competes with current petrochemical production routes yet. Although propionate production has been described for gut bacteria ...

    Authors: Carolin Döring and Mirko Basen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:95
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  33. Limonene has a variety of applications in the foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, biomaterials, and biofuels industries. In order to meet the growing demand for sustainable production of limonene at industry sc...

    Authors: Young-Kyoung Park, Lara Sellés Vidal, David Bell, Jure Zabret, Mladen Soldat, Martin Kavšček and Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:94
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  34. Polyketide synthases (PKSs) are classified into three types based on their enzyme structures. Among them, type III PKSs, catalyzing the iterative condensation of malonyl-coenzyme A (CoA) with a CoA-linked star...

    Authors: La Xiang, Xuanxuan Zhang, Yanyan Lei, Jieyuan Wu, Guangru Yan, Wei Chen, Shizhong Li, Wenzhao Wang, Jian-Ming Jin, Chaoning Liang and Shuang-Yan Tang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:93
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  35. An important step in replacing petrochemical products with sustainable, cost-effective alternatives is the use of feedstocks other than, e.g., pure glucose in the fermentative production of platform chemicals....

    Authors: Luca Antonia Grebe, Philipp Georg Lichtenberg, Katharina Hürter, Eva Forsten, Katharina Miebach, Jochen Büchs and Jørgen Barsett Magnus
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:92
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  36. Research on protein production holds significant importance in the advancement of food technology, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and bioenergy. Aspergillus niger stands out as an ideal microbial cell factory for ...

    Authors: Xin Chen, Baoxiang Pan, Leyi Yu, Bin Wang and Li Pan
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:91
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  37. Erythritol, a natural polyol, is a low-calorie sweetener synthesized by a number of microorganisms, such as Moniliella pollinis. Yet, a widespread use of erythritol is limited by high production costs due to the ...

    Authors: Audrey Masi, Georg Stark, Johanna Pfnier, Robert L. Mach and Astrid R. Mach-Aigner
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:90
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  38. Sophorolipids (SLs) are a class of natural, biodegradable surfactants that found their way as ingredients for environment friendly cleaning products, cosmetics and nanotechnological applications. Large-scale p...

    Authors: Zhoujian Diao, Sophie L. K. W. Roelants, Goedele Luyten, Jan Goeman, Isabel Vandenberghe, Gonzalez Van Driessche, Sofie L. De Maeseneire, Wim K. Soetaert and Bart Devreese
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:89
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  39. β-Arbutin, a hydroquinone glucoside found in pears, bearberry leaves, and various plants, exhibits antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and anticancer effects. β-Arbutin has wide applications in the ...

    Authors: Bin Zhang, Kexin Gou, Kexin Xu, Zhimin Li, Xiaoyan Guo and Xiaoyu Wu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:88
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  40. Inhibitors that are released from lignocellulose biomass during its treatment represent one of the major bottlenecks hindering its massive utilization in the biotechnological production of chemicals. This stud...

    Authors: Barbora Branska, Kamila Koppova, Marketa Husakova and Petra Patakova
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:87
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  41. Soybean (Glycine max) is a vital oil-producing crop. Augmenting oleic acid (OA) levels in soybean oil enhances its oxidative stability and health benefits, representing a key objective in soybean breeding. Pongam...

    Authors: Chun Liu, Rui Huang, Xingkun Zhao, Ranran Xu, Jianyu Zhang, Xinyong Li, Guodao Liu, Rongshu Dong and Pandao Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:86
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  42. Hybrid thermochemical–biological processes have the potential to enhance the carbon and energy recovery from organic waste. This work aimed to assess the carbon and energy recovery potential of multifunctional...

    Authors: Alberto Robazza, Flávio C. F. Baleeiro, Sabine Kleinsteuber and Anke Neumann
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:85
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  43. The holistic characterization of different microbiomes in anaerobic digestion (AD) systems can contribute to a better understanding of these systems and provide starting points for bioengineering. The present ...

    Authors: Pascal Otto, Roser Puchol-Royo, Asier Ortega-Legarreta, Kristie Tanner, Jeroen Tideman, Sjoerd-Jan de Vries, Javier Pascual, Manuel Porcar, Adriel Latorre-PĂ©rez and Christian Abendroth
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:84
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  44. Lignocellulosic biomass is currently underutilized, but it offers promise as a resource for the generation of commercial end-products, such as biofuels, detergents, and other oleochemicals. Rhodococcus opacus PD6...

    Authors: Winston E. Anthony, Weitao Geng, Jinjin Diao, Rhiannon R. Carr, Bin Wang, Jie Ning, Tae Seok Moon, Gautam Dantas and Fuzhong Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:83
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  45. 5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) recently received much attention due to its potential application in many fields such as medicine, nutrition and agriculture. Metabolic engineering is an efficient strategy to impro...

    Authors: Yuting Yang, Yuhong Zou, Xi Chen, Haidong Sun, Xia Hua, Lee Johnston, Xiangfang Zeng, Shiyan Qiao and Changchuan Ye
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:82
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  46. Non-conventional yeasts hold significant potential as biorefinery cell factories for microbial bioproduction. Currently, gene editing systems used for these yeasts rely on antibiotic and auxotrophic selection ...

    Authors: Shuo Zhang, Tao Ma, Fu-Hui Zheng, Muhammad Aslam, Yu-Jie Wang, Zhen-Ming Chi and Guang-Lei Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:81
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  47. To increase the production of biomass and astaxanthin from Haematococcus pluvialis to meet the high market demand for astaxanthin, this study recruited two typical and negligible phytohormones (namely resveratrol...

    Authors: Jia-Fan Qiu, Yu-Cheng Yang, Ruo-Yu Li, Yu-Hu Jiao, Jin-Hua Mou, Wei-Dong Yang, Carol Sze Ki Lin, Hong-Ye Li and Xiang Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:80
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  48. The need for addition of external electron donors such as ethanol or lactate impairs the economic viability of chain elongation (CE) processes for the production of medium-chain carboxylates (MCC). However, us...

    Authors: Jerome Undiandeye, Daniela Gallegos, Maria L. Bonatelli, Sabine Kleinsteuber, Mohammad Sufian Bin-Hudari, Nafi’u Abdulkadir, Walter Stinner and Heike Sträuber
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:79
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  49. Lignin is a highly abundant but strongly underutilized natural resource that could serve as a sustainable feedstock for producing chemicals by microbial cell factories. Because of the heterogeneous nature of t...

    Authors: Ella Meriläinen, Elena Efimova, Ville Santala and Suvi Santala
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:78
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  50. Plastic consumption has increased globally, and environmental issues associated with it have only gotten more severe; as a result, the search for environmentally friendly alternatives has intensified. Polyhydr...

    Authors: Pablo Alfredo Sánchez-Pineda, Itzel Y. López-Pacheco, Angel M. Villalba-Rodríguez, José Alfonso Godínez-Alemán, Reyna Berenice González-González, Roberto Parra-Saldívar and Hafiz M. N. Iqbal
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:77
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