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  1. Enzymatic breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass is a known bottleneck for the production of high-value molecules and biofuels from renewable sources. Filamentous fungi are the predominant natural source of enzy...

    Authors: David Navarro, Marie-Noëlle Rosso, Mireille Haon, Caroline Olivé, Estelle Bonnin, Laurence Lesage-Meessen, Didier Chevret, Pedro M Coutinho, Bernard Henrissat and Jean-Guy Berrin
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:143
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  2. The heterotrophic and mixotrophic culture of oleaginous microalgae is a promising process to produce biofuel feedstock due to the advantage of fast growth. Various organic carbons have been explored for this a...

    Authors: Yubin Zheng, Xiaochen Yu, Tingting Li, Xiaochao Xiong and Shulin Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:125
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  3. Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising renewable feedstock for biofuel production. Acetate is one of the major inhibitors liberated from hemicelluloses during hydrolysis. An understanding of the toxic effects ...

    Authors: Shihui Yang, Mary Ann Franden, Steven D Brown, Yat-Chen Chou, Philip T Pienkos and Min Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:140
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  4. Biohydrogen production through dark fermentation using organic waste as a substrate has gained increasing attention in recent years, mostly because of the economic advantages of coupling renewable, clean energ...

    Authors: Iulian Zoltan Boboescu, Mariana Ilie, Vasile Daniel Gherman, Ion Mirel, Bernadett Pap, Adina Negrea, Éva Kondorosi, Tibor Bíró and Gergely Maróti
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:139
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  6. The bioconversion of cellulose into simple sugars or chemicals has attracted extensive attention in recent decades. The crystal allomorphs of cellulose are key factor affecting cellulose saccharification. Howe...

    Authors: Ting Cui, Jihong Li, Zhipei Yan, Menghui Yu and Shizhong Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:134
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  7. Genetically customised Saccharomyces cerevisiae that can produce ethanol and additional bio-based chemicals from sustainable agro-industrial feedstocks (for example, residual plant biomass) are of major interest ...

    Authors: Claire M Hull, E Joel Loveridge, Nicola J Rolley, Iain S Donnison, Steven L Kelly and Diane E Kelly
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:133
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  8. Members of the thermophilic, anaerobic Gram-positive bacterial genus Caldicellulosiruptor grow optimally at 65 to 78°C and degrade lignocellulosic biomass without conventional pretreatment. Decomposition of compl...

    Authors: Joseph Groom, Daehwan Chung, Jenna Young and Janet Westpheling
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:132
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  9. Rut-C30 is a cellulase-hyperproducing Trichoderma reesei strain and, consequently, became the ancestor of most industry strains used in the production of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes, in particular cellulase...

    Authors: Thiago M Mello-de-Sousa, Rita Gorsche, Alice Rassinger, Marcio J Poças-Fonseca, Robert L Mach and Astrid R Mach-Aigner
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:129
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  10. The efficiency and cost of current lignocellulosic enzymes still limit the large-scale production of cellulosic ethanol in industry. Residual lignin after pretreatment severely depresses the activity of polysa...

    Authors: Lei Ji, Jinshui Yang, Hua Fan, Yi Yang, Baozhen Li, Xuejian Yu, Ning Zhu and Hongli Yuan
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:130
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  11. Enzymatic hydrolysis is a crucial step of biomass conversion into biofuels and different pretreatments have been proposed to improve the process efficiency. Amongst the various factors affecting hydrolysis yie...

    Authors: Jefferson Esquina Tsuchida, Camila Alves Rezende, Rodrigo de Oliveira-Silva, Marisa Aparecida Lima, Marcel Nogueira d’Eurydice, Igor Polikarpov and Tito José Bonagamba
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:127
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  12. The expression of biomass-degrading enzymes (such as cellobiohydrolases) in transgenic plants has the potential to reduce the costs of biomass saccharification by providing a source of enzymes to supplement co...

    Authors: Mark D Harrison, Zhanying Zhang, Kylie Shand, Barrie Fong Chong, Jason Nichols, Paul Oeller, Ian M O'Hara, William OS Doherty and James L Dale
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:131
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  13. Efficient industrial processes for converting plant lignocellulosic materials into biofuels are a key to global efforts to come up with alternative energy sources to fossil fuels. Novel cellulolytic enzymes ha...

    Authors: Sebastian GA Konietzny, Phillip B Pope, Aaron Weimann and Alice C McHardy
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:124
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  14. The concept of adaptive evolution implies underlying genetic mutations conferring a selective advantage to an organism under particular environmental conditions. Thus, a flow cytometry-based strategy was used ...

    Authors: Natarajan Velmurugan, Minji Sung, Sung Sun Yim, Min S Park, Ji Won Yang and Ki Jun Jeong
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:117
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  15. The lipid content of microalgae is regarded as an important indicator for biodiesel. Many attempts have been made to increase the lipid content of microalgae through biochemical and genetic engineering. Signif...

    Authors: Jianhui Zhang, Qiang Hao, Lili Bai, Jin Xu, Weibo Yin, Liying Song, Ling Xu, Xuejie Guo, Chengming Fan, Yuhong Chen, Jue Ruan, Shanting Hao, Yuanguang Li, Richard R-C Wang and Zanmin Hu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:128
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  16. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a key organism used for the manufacture of renewable fuels and chemicals, has been engineered to utilize non-native sugars derived from plant cell walls, such as cellobiose and xylose. H...

    Authors: Yuping Lin, Kulika Chomvong, Ligia Acosta-Sampson, RaĂ­ssa Estrela, Jonathan M Galazka, Soo Rin Kim, Yong-Su Jin and Jamie HD Cate
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:126
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  17. Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is one of the model microorganisms used for extracellular electron transfer. In this study, to elucidate the capability and the relevant metabolic processes of S. oneidensis MR-1 involv...

    Authors: Longfei Mao and Wynand S Verwoerd
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:118
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  18. The emergence of biofuels produced through yeast fermentation represents an important avenue for sustainable energy production. Despite all its advantages, this process is vulnerable to contamination by other ...

    Authors: Juliano Bertozzi Silva and Dominic Sauvageau
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:123
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  19. Efficient xylose fermentation by yeast would improve the economical and sustainable nature of biofuels production from lignocellulosic biomass. However, the efficiency of xylose fermentation by the yeast Saccharo...

    Authors: Sun-Mi Lee, Taylor Jellison and Hal S Alper
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:122
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  20. Wheat straw is an attractive substrate for second generation ethanol production because it will complement and augment wheat production rather than competing with food production. However, like other sources o...

    Authors: Samuel RA Collins, Nikolaus Wellner, Isabel Martinez Bordonado, Andrea L Harper, Charlotte N Miller, Ian Bancroft and Keith W Waldron
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:121
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  21. Lignocellulosic biomass from plant biomass, especially softwoods, are well-known to present difficulties during attempts at hydrolysis due to their rigid structure. Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass with...

    Authors: Kazuma Ogura, Kazuaki Ninomiya, Kenji Takahashi, Chiaki Ogino and Akihiko Kondo
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:120
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  22. Hydrogen is regarded as an attractive future energy carrier for its high energy content and zero CO2 emission. Currently, the majority of hydrogen is generated from fossil fuels. However, from an environmental pe...

    Authors: Zhicheng Lai, Muzi Zhu, Xiaofeng Yang, Jufang Wang and Shuang Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:119
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  23. The recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass is a major limitation for its conversion into biofuels by enzymatic hydrolysis. The use of a pretreatment technology is an essential step to diminish biomass recalc...

    Authors: Shaoni Sun, Xuefei Cao, Shaolong Sun, Feng Xu, Xianliang Song, Run-Cang Sun and Gwynn Lloyd Jones
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:116
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  24. Understanding the diversity of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes in nature will provide insights for the improvement of cellulolytic enzyme cocktails used in the biofuels industry. Two families of enzymes, fung...

    Authors: Adam J Book, Ragothaman M Yennamalli, Taichi E Takasuka, Cameron R Currie, George N Phillips Jr and Brian G Fox
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:109
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  25. We previously cloned a 1,3-specific lipase gene from the fungus Rhizomucor miehei and expressed it in methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris strain GS115. The enzyme produced (termed RML) was able to catalyze metha...

    Authors: Jinjin Huang, Ji Xia, Zhen Yang, Feifei Guan, Di Cui, Guohua Guan, Wei Jiang and Ying Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:111
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  26. The search for novel thermostable xylanases for industrial use has intensified in recent years, and thermophilic fungi are a promising source of useful enzymes. The present work reports the heterologous expres...

    Authors: Liliane FC Ribeiro, Rosymar C De Lucas, Gabriela L Vitcosque, Lucas F Ribeiro, Richard J Ward, Marcelo V Rubio, Andre RL Damásio, Fabio M Squina, Rebecca C Gregory, Paul H Walton, João A Jorge, Rolf A Prade, Marcos S Buckeridge and Maria de Lourdes TM Polizeli
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:115
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  27. The European Union has made it a strategic objective to develop its biofuels market in order to minimize greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, to help mitigate climate change and to address energy insecurity within ...

    Authors: Jade Littlewood, Miao Guo, Wout Boerjan and Richard J Murphy
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:113
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  28. Ligninolytic peroxidases are divided into three families: manganese peroxidases (MnPs), lignin peroxidases (LiPs), and versatile peroxidases (VPs). The latter two are able to degrade intact lignins, as shown u...

    Authors: Elena Fernández-Fueyo, Francisco J Ruiz-Dueñas and Angel T Martínez
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:114
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  29. Lactobacillus plantarum is an attractive candidate for metabolic engineering towards bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol or polylactic acid, as its natural characteristics include high ethanol and...

    Authors: Sarah MoraĂŻs, Naama Shterzer, Raphael Lamed, Edward A Bayer and Itzhak Mizrahi
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:112
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  30. High-cost production of bioplastics polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) is a major concern for their large scale application. In order to produce PHA economically, new technology must be developed to reduce costs on e...

    Authors: Haitao Yue, Chen Ling, Tao Yang, Xiangbin Chen, Yuling Chen, Haiteng Deng, Qiong Wu, Jinchun Chen and Guo-Qiang Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:108
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  31. Microalgae are ideal raw materials for biodiesel and bioactive compounds. Glycerol-3-phosphate is formed from dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) through the glycolytic pathway catalyzed by glycerol-3-phosphate ...

    Authors: Yao Yao, Yang Lu, Kun-Tao Peng, Tan Huang, Ying-Fang Niu, Wei-Hong Xie, Wei-Dong Yang, Jie-Sheng Liu and Hong-Ye Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:110
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  32. Cellulose is the most abundant biomass on earth. The major players in cellulose degradation in nature are cellulases produced by microorganisms. Aerobic filamentous fungi are the main sources of commercial cel...

    Authors: Zheng Zhang, Jun-Liang Liu, Jian-Yi Lan, Cheng-Jie Duan, Qing-Sheng Ma and Jia-Xun Feng
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:107
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  33. 2,3,5,6-Tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) is a popular food flavour additive. This biologically active ingredient has additional potential dietotherapy functions, such as in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health. ...

    Authors: Zijun Xiao, Xiaoyuan Hou, Xin Lyu, Lijun Xi and Jing-yi Zhao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:106
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  34. The economics of producing only electricity from residues, which comprise of surplus bagasse and 50% post-harvest residues, at an existing sugar mill in South Africa was compared to the coproduction of ethanol...

    Authors: Abdul M Petersen, Mathew C Aneke and Johann F Görgens
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:105
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  35. One of the challenges facing the fuel ethanol industry is the management of bacterial contamination during fermentation. Lactobacillus species are the predominant contaminants that decrease the profitability of b...

    Authors: Piyum A Khatibi, Dwayne R Roach, David M Donovan, Stephen R Hughes and Kenneth M Bischoff
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:104
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  36. Engineered fungi are attractive platforms for the production of plant cell wall hydrolytic enzymes which, among other biotechnological applications, are required for the efficient conversion of biomass to gluc...

    Authors: Juan Antonio Tamayo-Ramos and Margarita Orejas
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:103
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  37. Two major hurdles for successful production of second-generation bioethanol are the presence of inhibitory compounds in lignocellulosic media, and the fact that Saccharomyces cerevisiae cannot naturally utilise p...

    Authors: Johan O Westman, Nicklas Bonander, Mohammad J Taherzadeh and Carl Johan Franzén
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:102
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  38. Biosynthesis of liquid fuels and biomass-based building block chemicals from microorganisms have been regarded as a competitive alternative route to traditional. Zymomonas mobilis possesses a number of desirable ...

    Authors: Ming Xiong He, Bo Wu, Han Qin, Zhi Yong Ruan, Fu Rong Tan, Jing Li Wang, Zong Xia Shui, Li Chun Dai, Qi Li Zhu, Ke Pan, Xiao Yu Tang, Wen Guo Wang and Qi Chun Hu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:101
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  39. Clostridium clariflavum is an anaerobic, thermophilic, Gram-positive bacterium, capable of growth on crystalline cellulose as a single carbon source. The genome of C. clariflavum has been sequenced to completion,...

    Authors: Lior Artzi, Bareket Dassa, Ilya Borovok, Melina Shamshoum, Raphael Lamed and Edward A Bayer
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:100
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  40. Molecular engineering of the intermediary physiology of cyanobacteria has become important for the sustainable production of biofuels and commodity compounds from CO2 and sunlight by “designer microbes.” The chem...

    Authors: S Andreas Angermayr, Aniek D van der Woude, Danilo Correddu, Angie Vreugdenhil, Valeria Verrone and Klaas J Hellingwerf
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:99
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  41. The deconstruction of renewable biomass feedstocks into soluble sugars at low cost is a critical component of the biochemical conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals. Providing low cost high concentration...

    Authors: Xiaowen Chen, Joseph Shekiro, Thomas Pschorn, Marc Sabourin, Ling Tao, Rick Elander, Sunkyu Park, Ed Jennings, Robert Nelson, Olev Trass, Keith Flanegan, Wei Wang, Michael E Himmel, David Johnson and Melvin P Tucker
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:98
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  42. Biodiesel production from marine microalgae has received much attention as microalgae can be cultivated on non-arable land without the use of potable water, and with the additional benefits of mitigating CO2 emis...

    Authors: Shih-Hsin Ho, Akihito Nakanishi, Xiaoting Ye, Jo-Shu Chang, Kiyotaka Hara, Tomohisa Hasunuma and Akihiko Kondo
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:97
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  43. Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz, known by such popular names as “gold-of-pleasure” and “false flax,” is an alternative oilseed crop for biofuel production and can be grown in harsh environments. Considerable interest...

    Authors: Won Park, Yufeng Feng and Sung-Ju Ahn
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:96
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  44. Ensiling may act as a pretreatment of fresh grass biomass and increase the enzymatic conversion of structural carbohydrates to fermentable sugars. However, ensiling does not provide sufficient severity to be a...

    Authors: Morten Ambye-Jensen, Katja S Johansen, Thomas Didion, Zsófia Kádár and Anne S Meyer
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:95
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  46. In order to rapidly and efficiently screen potential biofuel feedstock candidates for quintessential traits, robust high-throughput analytical techniques must be developed and honed. The traditional methods of...

    Authors: Jason S Lupoi, Seema Singh, Mark Davis, David J Lee, Merv Shepherd, Blake A Simmons and Robert J Henry
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:93
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  47. Mixed microbial cultures, in which bacteria and fungi interact, have been proposed as an efficient way to deconstruct plant waste. The characterization of specific microbial consortia could be the starting poi...

    Authors: Diego Javier Jiménez, Francisco Dini-Andreote and Jan Dirk van Elsas
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:92
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  48. Jatropha curcas is being promoted as a new bioenergy crop in tropical and subtropical regions due to its high amount of seed oil and its potential capacity to grow on marginal land for biofuel production. However...

    Authors: Jian Ye, Yunfeng Geng, Bipei Zhang, Huizhu Mao, Jing Qu and Nam-Hai Chua
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:91
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  49. Butanol production directly from CO2 in photosynthetic cyanobacteria is restricted by the high toxicity of butanol to the hosts. In previous studies, we have found that a few two-component signal transduction sys...

    Authors: Lei Chen, Lina Wu, Jiangxin Wang and Weiwen Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:89
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  50. Oxygenic photosynthetic microorganisms such as cyanobacteria and microalgae have attracted attention as an alternative carbon source for the next generation of biofuels. Glycogen abundantly accumulated in cyan...

    Authors: Shimpei Aikawa, Atsumi Nishida, Shih-Hsin Ho, Jo-Shu Chang, Tomohisa Hasunuma and Akihiko Kondo
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:88
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