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  1. Esters are widely used in food, energy, spices, chemical industry, etc., becoming an indispensable part of life. However, their production heavily relies on the fossil energy industry, which presents significa...

    Authors: Gaofei Liu, Lei Huang and Jiazhang Lian
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:93
  2. 2-Pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC), a chemically stable pseudoaromatic dicarboxylic acid, represents a promising building block for the manufacture of biodegradable polyesters. Microbial production of PDC ha...

    Authors: Dan Zhou, Fengli Wu, Yanfeng Peng, Muneer Ahmed Qazi, Ruosong Li, Yongzhong Wang and Qinhong Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:92
  3. With its high nutritional value and productivity, Italian ryegrass as a biomass feedstock constantly supplies rumen degradable nitrogen and digestible fiber to ruminants. However, biofuel production is easily ...

    Authors: Guang-hao Xia, Chang-rong Wu, Ming-zhu Zhang, Feng Yang, Chao Chen and Jun Hao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:91
  4. Rice (Oryza sativa) straw is a common waste product that represents a considerable amount of bound energy. This energy can be used for biogas production, but the rate and level of methane produced from rice straw...

    Authors: Yunkai Jin, Jia Hu, Jun Su, Selcuk Aslan, Yan Lin, Lu Jin, Simon Isaksson, Chunlin Liu, Feng Wang, Anna SchnĂĽrer, Folke Sitbon, Per Hofvander and Chuanxin Sun
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:90
  5. The combination of cellulase and lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase (LPMO) is known to boost enzymatic saccharification of cellulose. Although the synergy between cellulases (GH5, 6 or 7) and LPMOs (AA9) has b...

    Authors: Xing Qin, Kun Yang, Jiahuan Zou, Xiaolu Wang, Tao Tu, Yuan Wang, Xiaoyun Su, Bin Yao, Huoqing Huang and Huiying Luo
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:89
  6. Increasing seed oil content is the most important breeding goal in Brassica napus, and phenotyping is crucial to dissect its genetic basis in crops. To date, QTL mapping for oil content has been based on whole se...

    Authors: Liangxing Guo, Hongbo Chao, Yongtai Yin, Huaixin Li, Hao Wang, Weiguo Zhao, Dalin Hou, Libin Zhang, Chunyu Zhang and Maoteng Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:88
  7. Lignocellulose is the most abundant renewable resource in the world and has attracted widespread attention. It can be hydrolyzed into sugars with the help of cellulases and hemicellulases that are secreted by ...

    Authors: Ni Li, Zhouyuan Qiu, Wanchuan Cai, Yaling Shen, Dongzhi Wei, Yumeng Chen and Wei Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:87
  8. Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is known as one of the most important oilseed crops cultivated around the world. However, its production continuously faces a huge challenge of Sclerotinia stem rot (SSR), a destr...

    Authors: Jie Liu, Yupo Wu, Xiong Zhang, Rafaqat Ali Gill, Ming Hu, Zetao Bai, Chuanji Zhao, Yi Zhang, Yueying Liu, Qiong Hu, Xiaohui Cheng, Junyan Huang, Lijiang Liu, Shunping Yan and Shengyi Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:86
  9. Rapid drying, cost-effective and safe, will increase the viability of using microalgae for several bio-industrial applications. In this study, five different drying techniques of microalgal biomass were invest...

    Authors: Hareb Aljabri, Maroua Cherif, Simil Amir Siddiqui, Touria Bounnit and Imen Saadaoui
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:85
  10. Diatoms have been viewed as ideal cell factories for production of some high-value bioactive metabolites, such as fucoxanthin, but their applications are restrained by limited biomass yield. Mixotrophy, by usi...

    Authors: Song Wang, Xiyi Zhou, Sha Wu, Mengkai Zhao and Zhangli Hu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:84
  11. Dilute ethanol streams generated during fermentation of biomass or syngas can be used as feedstocks for the production of higher value products. In this study, we describe a novel synthetic microbial co-cultur...

    Authors: Ivette Parera Olm and Diana Z. Sousa
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:83
  12. Sugarcane trash (SCT) represents up to 18% of the aboveground biomass of sugarcane, surpassing 28 million tons globally per year. The majority of SCT is burning in the fields. Hence, efficient use of SCT is ne...

    Authors: Sadat Mohamed Rezk Khattab, Hiroyuki Okano, Chihiro Kimura, Takashi Fujita and Takashi Watanabe
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:82
  13. Anaerobic Saccharomyces cerevisiae cultures require glycerol formation to re-oxidize NADH formed in biosynthetic processes. Introduction of the Calvin-cycle enzymes phosphoribulokinase (PRK) and ribulose-1,5-bisp...

    Authors: Aafke C. A. van Aalst, Mickel L. A. Jansen, Robert Mans and Jack T. Pronk
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:81
  14. Plant hemoglobin shows great potential as a food additive to circumvent the controversy of using animal materials. Microbial fermentation with engineered microorganisms is considered as a promising strategy fo...

    Authors: Mengmeng Wang, Zhong Shi, Ning Gao, Yingyu Zhou, Xiaomeng Ni, Jiuzhou Chen, Jiao Liu, Wenjuan Zhou, Xuan Guo, Bo Xin, Yanbing Shen, Yu Wang, Ping Zheng and Jibin Sun
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:80
  15. Corn bran is a major agro-industrial byproduct from corn starch processing. It contains abundant arabinoxylan that can be converted into value-added chemicals via biotechnology. Corn bran arabinoxylan (CBAX) i...

    Authors: Liangkun Long, Wei Wang, Zhen Liu, Yuanxin Lin, Jing Wang, Qunying Lin and Shaojun Ding
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:79
  16. Lignocellulosic biomass is an attractive non-food feedstock for lactic acid production via microbial conversion due to its abundance and low-price, which can alleviate the conflict with food supplies. However,...

    Authors: Wenwen Shan, Yongli Yan, Yongda Li, Wei Hu and Jihong Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:78
  17. Birch wood is a potential feedstock for biogas production in Northern Europe; however, the lignocellulosic matrix is recalcitrant preventing efficient conversion to methane. To improve digestibility, birch woo...

    Authors: Seyedbehnam Hashemi, Linn Solli, Kristian M. Lien, Jacob J. Lamb and Svein Jarle Horn
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:77
  18. Polycyclic triterpenoids (PTs) are common in plants, and have attracted considerable interest due to their remarkable biological activities. Currently, engineering the ergosterol synthesis pathway in Saccharomyce...

    Authors: Meng-Meng Du, Ge-Ge Zhang, Zhan-Tao Zhu, Yun-Qiu Zhao, Bei Gao, Xin-Yi Tao, Feng-Qing Wang and Dong-Zhi Wei
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:76
  19. 2-Phenylethanol is a specific aromatic alcohol with a rose-like smell, which has been widely used in the cosmetic and food industries. At present, 2-phenylethanol is mainly produced by chemical synthesis. The ...

    Authors: Nianqing Zhu, Wenjing Xia, Guanglu Wang, Yuhe Song, Xinxing Gao, Jilei Liang and Yan Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:75
  20. The marine alga Nannochloropsis oceanica, an emerging model belonging to Heterokont, is considered as a promising light-driven eukaryotic chassis for transforming carbon dioxide to various compounds including car...

    Authors: Meijing Liu, Wei Ding, Yufang Pan, Hanhua Hu and Jin Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:74
  21. Trichoderma reesei Rut-C30 is a hypercellulolytic mutant strain that degrades abundant sources of lignocellulosic plant biomass, yielding renewable biofuels. Although Zn2+ is an activator of enzymes in almost all...

    Authors: Ni Li, Jing Li, Yumeng Chen, Yaling Shen, Dongzhi Wei and Wei Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:73
  22. In synthetic biology, the strength of promoter elements is the basis for precise regulation of target gene transcription levels, which in turn increases the yield of the target product. However, the results of...

    Authors: Danyao Cui, Ling Liu, Lijing Sun, Xue Lin, Liangcai Lin and Cuiying Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:72
  23. Medium-chain fatty acids are molecules with applications in different industries and with growing demand. However, the current methods for their extraction are not environmentally sustainable. The reverse β-ox...

    Authors: Fernando Garces Daza, Fabian Haitz, Alice Born and Eckhard Boles
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:71
  24. Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr) is an important source of human food, animal feed, and bio-energy. Although the genetic network of lipid metabolism is clear in Arabidopsis, the understanding of lipid metabolism i...

    Authors: Xunchao Zhao, Jie Wang, Ning Xia, Yuanyuan Liu, Yuewen Qu, Meng Ming, Yuhang Zhan, Yingpeng Han, Xue Zhao and Yongguang Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:70
  25. After centuries of heavy reliance on fossil fuel energy, the world suffers from an energy crisis and global warming, calling for carbon emission reduction and a transition to clean energy. Microalgae have attr...

    Authors: Kui Liu, Jinyu Li, Chao Xing, Hongli Yuan and Jinshui Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:69
  26. To realize the full potential of softwood-based forest biorefineries, the bottlenecks of enzymatic saccharification of softwood need to be better understood. Here, we investigated the potential of lytic polysa...

    Authors: Fabio Caputo, Monika Tõlgo, Polina Naidjonoka, Kristian B. R. M. Krogh, Vera Novy and Lisbeth Olsson
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:68
  27. The thermotolerant yeast is beneficial in terms of efficiency improvement of processes and reduction of costs, while Saccharomyces cerevisiae does not efficiently grow and ferment at high-temperature conditions. ...

    Authors: Peizhou Yang, Wenjing Wu, Jianchao Chen, Suwei Jiang, Zhi Zheng, Yanhong Deng, Jiuling Lu, Hu Wang, Yong Zhou, Yuyou Geng and Kanglin Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:66
  28. Wood represents the majority of the biomass on land and constitutes a renewable source of biofuels and other bioproducts. However, wood is recalcitrant to bioconversion, raising a need for feedstock improvemen...

    Authors: Sacha Escamez, Kathryn M. Robinson, Mikko Luomaranta, Madhavi Latha Gandla, Niklas Mähler, Zakiya Yassin, Thomas Grahn, Gerhard Scheepers, Lars-Göran Stener, Stefan Jansson, Leif J. Jönsson, Nathaniel R. Street and Hannele Tuominen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:65
  29. With unique physiochemical environments in subcellular organelles, there has been growing interest in harnessing yeast organelles for bioproduct synthesis. Among these organelles, the yeast mitochondrion has b...

    Authors: Yiming Zhang, Mo Su, Yu Chen, Zheng Wang, Jens Nielsen and Zihe Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:64
  30. At present, the conventional methods for determining photosynthetic products of microalgae are usually based on a large number of cell mass to reach the measurement baseline, and the result can only reveal the...

    Authors: Xiufen Wang, Yuehui He, Yuanyuan Zhou, Baohua Zhu, Jian Xu, Kehou Pan and Yun Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:63
  31. Carbon capture using alkaliphilic cyanobacteria can be an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly process for producing bioenergy and bioproducts. The inefficiency of current harvesting and downstream pr...

    Authors: Cigdem Demirkaya, Agasteswar Vadlamani, Taina Tervahauta, Marc Strous and Hector De la Hoz Siegler
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:62
  32. Cellulases play a key role in the enzymatic conversion of plant cell-wall polysaccharides into simple and economically relevant sugars. Thus, the discovery of novel cellulases from exotic biological niches is ...

    Authors: Madan Junghare, Tamilvendan Manavalan, Lasse Fredriksen, Ingar Leiros, Bjørn Altermark, Vincent G. H. Eijsink and Gustav Vaaje-Kolstad
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:61
  33. Advanced spark ignition engines require high performance fuels with improved resistance to autoignition. Biologically derived olefinic alcohols have arisen as promising blendstock candidates due to favorable o...

    Authors: David N. Carruthers, Jinho Kim, Daniel Mendez-Perez, Eric Monroe, Nick Myllenbeck, Yuzhong Liu, Ryan W. Davis, Eric Sundstrom and Taek Soon Lee
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:60
  34. Keratin, the main component of chicken feather, is the third most abundant material after cellulose and chitin. Keratin can be converted into high-value compounds and is considered a potential high-quality pro...

    Authors: Yuhong Lai, Xiuyun Wu, Xianliang zheng, Weiguang Li and Lushan Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:59
  35. Filamentous fungi with the ability to use complex carbon sources has been developed as platforms for biochemicals production. Myceliophthora thermophila has been developed as the cell factory to produce lignocell...

    Authors: Zhen Zhao, Shuying Gu, Defei Liu, Dandan Liu, Bingchen Chen, Jingen Li and Chaoguang Tian
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:58
  36. Engineering sustainable bioprocesses that convert abundant waste into fuels is pivotal for efficient production of renewable energy. We previously engineered an Escherichia coli strain for optimized bioethanol pr...

    Authors: Lorenzo Pasotti, Davide De Marchi, Michela Casanova, Angelica Frusteri Chiacchiera, Maria Gabriella Cusella De Angelis, Cinzia Calvio and Paolo Magni
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:57
  37. Oilcane is a metabolically engineered sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrid) that hyper-accumulates lipids in its vegetable biomass to provide an advanced feedstock for biodiesel production. The potential impact of hy...

    Authors: Jihoon Yang, Thanwalee Sooksa-nguan, Baskaran Kannan, Sofia Cano-Alfanar, Hui Liu, Angela Kent, John Shanklin, Fredy Altpeter and Adina Howe
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:56
  38. The difficulty of degrading lignin is the main factor limiting the high-value conversion process of lignocellulosic biomass. The biodegradation of lignin has attracted much attention because of its strong envi...

    Authors: Wen Zhang, Chenyang Diao and Lei Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:55
  39. In a previous study, shaking speed was found to be an important factor affecting the population dynamics and lignocellulose-degrading activities of a synthetic lignocellulolytic microbial consortium composed o...

    Authors: Yanfang Wang, Diego Javier Jiménez, Zhenhua Zhang and Jan Dirk van Elsas
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:54
  40. Fuels and chemicals derived from non-fossil sources are needed to lessen human impacts on the environment while providing a healthy and growing economy. 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) is an important chemical ...

    Authors: Ziyu Dai, Kyle R. Pomraning, Shuang Deng, Joonhoon Kim, Kristen B. Campbell, Ana L. Robles, Beth A. Hofstad, Nathalie Munoz, Yuqian Gao, Teresa Lemmon, Marie S. Swita, Jeremy D. Zucker, Young-Mo Kim, Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson and Jon K. Magnuson
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:53
  41. Organosolv pretreatment is one of the most efficient methods for delignification and boosting biomass saccharification. As compared to typical ethanol organosolv pretreatments, 1,4-butanediol (BDO) organosolv ...

    Authors: Xinyu Xie, Mingjun Chen, Wenyao Tong, Kai Song, Jing Wang, Shufang Wu, Jinguang Hu, Yongcan Jin and Qiulu Chu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:52
  42. Filamentous fungi possess an array of secreted enzymes to depolymerize the structural polysaccharide components of plant biomass. Sugar transporters play an essential role in nutrient uptake and sensing of ext...

    Authors: Shuying Gu, Zhen Zhao, Fanglei Xue, Defei Liu, Qian Liu, Jingen Li and Chaoguang Tian
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:51
  43. 1,3-Propanediol (1,3-PDO) is a platform compound, which has been widely used in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Compared with chemical methods, the biological synthesis of 1,3-PDO has shown promi...

    Authors: Yanxia Wang, Zijian Wan, Yueting Zhu, Haibo Hu, Yujia Jiang, Wankui Jiang, Wenming Zhang and Fengxue Xin
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:50
  44. The efficiency of downstream processes plays a crucial role in the transition from conventional petrochemical processes to sustainable biotechnological production routes. One promising candidate for product se...

    Authors: Johannes Pastoors, Chris Baltin, Jens Bettmer, Alexander Deitert, Tobias Götzen, Carina Michel, Jeff Deischter, Isabel Schroll, Andreas Biselli, Regina Palkovits, Marcus Rose, Andreas Jupke and Jochen Büchs
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:49
  45. The exact mechanism by which fungal strains sense insoluble cellulose is unknown, but research points to the importance of transglycosylation products generated by fungi during cellulose breakdown. Here, we us...

    Authors: Shivam Aggarwal, Sathish Dorairaj and Nidhi Adlakha
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:48
  46. Chlorella sorokiniana FZU60 is a promising lutein producing microalga. A mixotrophy/photoautotrophy two-stage strategy can achieve high biomass concentration at stage 1 and high lutein content at stage 2, leading...

    Authors: Ruijuan Ma, Zhen Zhang, Hong Fang, Xinyu Liu, Shih-Hsin Ho, Youping Xie and Jianfeng Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:47
  47. Sensitivity to inhibitors derived from the pretreatment of plant biomass is a barrier to the consolidated bioprocessing of these complex substrates to fuels and chemicals by microbes. Spermidine is a low molec...

    Authors: Sun-Ki Kim, Yannick J. Bomble and Janet Westpheling
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:46
  48. Plant carotenoids are essential for human health, having wide uses in dietary supplements, food colorants, animal feed additives, and cosmetics. With the increasing demand for natural carotenoids, plant carote...

    Authors: Jie Zhang, Liheng He, Jingjing Dong, Cailiang Zhao, Yujie Wang, Ruimin Tang, Wenbin Wang, Zhixian Ji, Qinghe Cao, Hong’e Xie, Zongxin Wu, Runzhi Li, Ling Yuan and Xiaoyun Jia
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:45
  49. Straw biorefinery offers economical and sustainable production of chemicals. The merits of cell immobilization technology have become the key technology to meet d-lactic acid production from non- detoxified corn ...

    Authors: Yongxin Guo, Yuru Zhao, Yuan Gao, Gang Wang, Yixin Zhao, Jiejing Zhang, Yanli Li, Xiqing Wang, Juan Liu and Guang Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:43