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• Recent developments in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering in microalgae towards biofuel production

  Authors:Sheeja Jagadevan, Avik Banerjee, Chiranjib Banerjee, Chandan Guria, Rameshwar Tiwari, Mehak Baweja, et al.From:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  June 30, 201810,676 words Report 1630LIn the wake of the uprising global energy crisis, microalgae have emerged as an alternate feedstock for biofuel production. In addition, microalgae bear immense potential as bio-cell factories in terms of producing key...

• Hybrid phenolic-inducible promoters towards construction of self-inducible systems for microbial lignin valorization

  Authors:Arul M. Varman, Rhiannon Follenfant, Fang Liu, Ryan W. Davis, Yone K. Lin, and Seema SinghFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  June 28, 20186,384 words Report 1490LBackground Engineering strategies to create promoters that are both higher strength and tunable in the presence of inexpensive compounds are of high importance to develop metabolic engineering technologies that can...

• Engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum triggers glutamic acid accumulation in biotin-rich corn stover hydrolysate.

  Authors:Jingbai Wen and Jie BaoFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 15, 20195,806 words Report 1510LBackground Lignocellulose biomass contains high amount of biotin and resulted in an excessive biotin condition for cellulosic glutamic acid accumulation by Corynebacterium glutamicum. Penicillin or ethambutol triggers...

• Production of xylooligosaccharides and monosaccharides from poplar by a two-step acetic acid and peroxide/acetic acid pretreatment.

  Authors:Peiyao Wen, Tian Zhang, Jinye Wang, Zhina Lian, and Junhua ZhangFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 15, 20196,681 words Report 1520LBackground Populus (poplar) tree species including hybrid varieties are considered as promising biomass feedstock for biofuels and biochemicals production due to their fast growing, short vegetative cycle, and widely...

• Gasifier increases BTUs in biomass-derived gas

  Author:Ann ChambersFrom:Power Engineering (Vol. 102, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 1998350 words Brief article Robert C. Brown, a professor at Iowa State University, has invented a gasifier that uses an arrangement of high temperature phase-changing material to produce flammable gas from agricultural wastes and energy crops. The...

• Mechanistic insight in the selective delignification of wheat straw by three white-rot fungal species through quantitative 13C-IS py-GC-MS and whole cell wall HSQC NMR

  Authors:Gijs van Erven, Nazri Nayan, Anton S. M. Sonnenberg, Wouter H. Hendriks, John W. Cone, and Mirjam A. KabelFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 26, 20189,479 words Report 1500LBackground The white-rot fungi Ceriporiopsis subvermispora (Cs), Pleurotus eryngii (Pe), and Lentinula edodes (Le) have been shown to be high-potential species for selective delignification of plant biomass. This...

• Improvement of hydrogen production from Chlorella sp. biomass by acid-thermal pretreatment

  Authors:Tran T. Giang, Siriporn Lunprom, Qiang Liao, Alissara Reungsang, and Apilak SalakkamFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 7) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 21, 20197,289 words Report 1340LAuthor(s): Tran T. Giang (1), Siriporn Lunprom (1,2), Qiang Liao (3,4), Alissara Reungsang (1,2), Apilak Salakkam (1) Introduction The demand for energy has been rising accompanying the expansion of industrial...

• Transcriptomic analysis of the oleaginous yeast Lipomyces starkeyi during lipid accumulation on enzymatically treated corn stover hydrolysate

  Authors:Kyle R. Pomraning, James R. Collett, Joonhoon Kim, Ellen A. Panisko, David E. Culley, Ziyu Dai, et al.From:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  June 26, 20197,811 words Report 1620LBackground Efficient and economically viable production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass is dependent on mechanical and chemical pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of plant material. These processing steps...

• Metabolic engineering of Zymomonas mobilis for anaerobic isobutanol production.

  Authors:Mengyue Qiu, Wei Shen, Xiongyin Yan, Qiaoning He, Dongbo Cai, Shouwen Chen, et al.From:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 25, 20207,989 words Report 1620LBackground Biofuels and value-added biochemicals derived from renewable biomass via biochemical conversion have attracted considerable attention to meet global sustainable energy and environmental goals. Isobutanol is...

• Response mechanisms of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to the stress factors present in lignocellulose hydrolysate and strategies for constructing robust strains.

  Authors:Bo Li, Nan Liu, and Xuebing ZhaoFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 15, 20229,405 words Report 1590LBioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels such as bioethanol and high value-added products has attracted great interest in recent decades due to the carbon neutral nature of biomass feedstock. However, there...

• Harvesting the benefits of biomass

  Author:Taylor MooreFrom:EPRI Journal (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  May-June 19965,139 words Article Biomass offers other benefits aside from being a source of renewable energy. Utilities can help in agricultural waste disposal by cofiring solid waste with fossil fuels, which also offsets emissions of air pollutants,...

• Desirable plant cell wall traits for higher-quality miscanthus lignocellulosic biomass.

  Authors:Ricardo M. F. da Costa, Sivakumar Pattathil, Utku Avci, Ana Winters, Michael G. Hahn, and Maurice BoschFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 15, 201910,267 words Report 1500LBackground Lignocellulosic biomass from dedicated energy crops such as Miscanthus spp. is an important tool to combat anthropogenic climate change. However, we still do not exactly understand the sources of cell wall...

• The two Rasamsonia emersonii [alpha]-glucuronidases, ReGH67 and ReGH115, show a different mode-of-action towards glucuronoxylan and glucuronoxylo-oligosaccharides

  Authors:Patricia Murciano Martinez, Maaike M. Appeldoorn, Harry Gruppen, and Mirjam A. KabelFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  May 18, 20164,998 words Report 1410LBackground The production of biofuels and biochemicals from grass-type plant biomass requires a complete utilisation of the plant cellulose and hemicellulosic xylan via enzymatic degradation to their constituent...

• Activation of lignocellulosic biomass for higher sugar yields using aqueous ionic liquid at low severity process conditions

  Authors:Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Jian Sun, Tanmoy Dutta, Ning Sun, Sivakumar Pattathil, N. V. S. N. Murthy Konda, et al.From:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 2, 20167,976 words Author abstract 1530LBackground Concerns around greenhouse gas emissions necessitate the development of sustainable processes for the production of chemicals, materials, and fuels from alternative renewable sources. The lignocellulosic...

• Effects of cre1 modification in the white-rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus PC9: altering substrate preference during biological pretreatment

  Authors:Shahar Yoav, Tomer M. Salame, Daria Feldman, Dana Levinson, Michael Ioelovich, Ely Morag, et al.From:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  July 27, 20189,650 words Report 1510LBackground During the process of bioethanol production, cellulose is hydrolyzed into its monomeric soluble units. For efficient hydrolysis, a chemical and/or mechanical pretreatment step is required. Such...

• Assessing the stability and techno-economic implications for wet storage of harvested microalgae to manage seasonal variability.

  Authors:Lynn M. Wendt, Christopher Kinchin, Bradley D. Wahlen, Ryan Davis, Thomas A. Dempster, and Henri GerkenFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 8, 20199,417 words Report 1630LBackground Seasonal variation in microalgae production is a significant challenge to developing cost-competitive algae biofuels. Summer production can be three to five times greater than winter production, which could...

• Biomass yield and stand characteristics of switchgrass in south central U.S. environments

  Authors:K.A. Cassida, J.P. Muir, M.A. Hussey, J.C. Read, B.C. Venuto, and W.R. OcumpaughFrom:Crop Science (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  March-April 20055,039 words Article Optimizing feedstock production from switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) requires careful matching of genotype to environment, especially for southern U.S. regions. Nine genotypes from four combinations of ecotype and...

• Economic feasibility of utilizing precommercially thinned southern pine as a woody biomass energy source

  Authors:Nathan C. Hanzelka, Jay Sullivan, M. Chad Bolding, and Scott M. BarrettFrom:Forest Products Journal (Vol. 66, Issue 5-6) Peer-Reviewed

  September-October 20164,745 words Report 1620LAbstract The use of woody biomass as a feedstock for wood-burning energy facilities and pellet mills has increased across the southern United States in recent years. Feedstock for these facilities comes in a variety...

• Supercritical water process converts biomass to sugars

  Author:Ondrey GeraldFrom:Chemical Engineering (Vol. 118, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 2011311 words Brief article 1360LSugar is a critical feedstock for many emerging bio-based-chemical and biofuel processes, but harvesting sugar from lowvalue, nonfood biomass cost-effectively and at large scale remains a challenge. Renmatix Inc. (King...

• Seed-specific suppression of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase in Camelina sativa increases seed size and weight

  Authors:GunNam Na, Niranjan Aryal, Abdelhak Fatihi, Jinling Kang, and Chaofu LuFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 18, 20186,401 words Report 1540LBackground Camelina (Camelina sativa L.) is a promising oilseed crop that may provide sustainable feedstock for biofuel production. One of the major drawbacks of Camelina is its smaller seeds compared to other major...