Bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass: biochemical and molecular perspectives

By Raj Kumar, Sompal Singh, O. Singh. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• Trichoderma reesei: A Fungal Enzyme Producer for Cellulosic Biofuels (2011, background): “…enzymes in pulp, paper, food, feed or textile processing industries, these plant cell wall degrading enzymes are nowadays also employed for the saccharification of cellulosic plant biomass to simple sugars for biofuel production (Bouws et al., 2008; Harman and Kubicek, 1998; Kumar et al., 2008).”
• Endophytic Fungi: Natural Products, Enzymes and Biotransformation Reactions (2009, background): “In fact, there are several fungal enzymes produced by soil fungi with applications to the food, bio-fuel, paper, detergent, animal feed, textile, leather and pharmaceutical industries [175-180].”
• Biology and biotechnology of Trichoderma (2010, background): “reesei is nowadays particularly focused on improvement of efficiency of the enzyme cocktail produced in order to decrease overall costs of production of bioethanol from cellulosic waste material (Kumar et al. 2008), although applications in the pulp and paper industry (Buchert et al.”
• Fungal Bioconversion of Lignocellulosic Residues; Opportunities & Perspectives (2009, background): “The products of the enzymatic reaction are mostly a disaccharide known as cellobiose and, to a lesser extent, cello-oligosaccharides, which will be further hydrolyzed by the third group of enzymes called β-glucosidases [56].”
• Anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass: challenges and opportunities. (2015, neutral): “Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundantly available bioresource with an annual (global) yield of over 200 billion dry metric tons per year (Kumar et al., 2008).”
• Potential of fungi as category I Consolidated BioProcessing organisms for cellulosic ethanol production (2012, background): “viride QM6a, in order to decrease production costs of cellulosic bioethanol [14].”
• Microbial consortia for saccharification of woody biomass and ethanol fermentation (2013, background): “Significant work to reduce the cost of cellulases has focused on improving the efficiency of known cellulases, identifying new, more active cellulases, creating multicomponent cellulase systems optimized for selected pretreated substrates, and minimizing the costs of cellulase production [4,5].”
• Advances in the Valorization of Lignocellulosic Materials by Biotechnology: An Overview (2013, background): “…vanillin, vanillic acid, syringaldehyde, benzene, biphenyls, and cyclohexane from lignocellulosic biomass (Canilha et al. 2004; Carvalho et al. 2005; Deng et al. 2006; Moldes et al. 2007; Kumar et al. 2008; West 2009; Gandini, 2011; Ji et al. 2012; Reichert et al. 2012; Varanasi et al. 2013).”
• Fungal Solid-State Fermentation and Various Methods of Enhancement in Cellulase Production (2014, neutral): “Phosphorus source is essential in supporting the growth of fungus as it aids the formation of phospholipid bilayer in the fungal cellmembrane [6].”
• Microbial β-Glucosidase: Sources, Production and Applications (2017, background): “Usually cellulose polymer has two regions: crystalline region recalcitrant to enzymatic hydrolysis and amorphous region easily accessible to enzymatic hydrolysis [21,22,23].”
• A versatile toolkit for high throughput functional genomics with Trichoderma reesei (2012, background): “Thereby, the cellulases required to degrade cellulosic plant materials into small building blocks, which can be metabolized by yeast or other microbes to ethanol or hydrocarbon biofuel precursors, respectively, are one major focus of investigation [4].”