There is a major international effort to develop renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. One
approach is to produce a liquid fuel by enzymatically hydrolyzing carbohydrate polymers in …

Agro-industrial residues and by-products are a crescent environmental problem since they
are often discarded without proper treatment, and still have growing production. These …

Feedstock for biofuel synthesis is transitioning to lignocelluosic biomass to address criticism
over competition between first generation biofuels and food production. As microbial …

Due to the importance of using lignocellulosic biomass, it is always important to find an
effective novel enzyme or enzyme cocktail or fusion enzymes. Identification of bifunctional …

Planctomycetes of the family Gemmataceae are strictly aerobic chemo-organotrophs that
display a number of hydrolytic capabilities. A member of this family, Telmatocola …

Energy security, climate change, and economic development are the driving forces behind
the increasing focus on biofuel production worldwide. Lignocellulose can provide ample raw …

Metagenomics emerged in the late 1990s as a tool for accessing and studying the collective
microbial genetic material in the environment. The advent of the technology generated great …

The enzymatic degradation of plant polysaccharides is emerging as one of the key
environmental goals of the early 21st century, impacting on many processes in the textile …

The increasing petroleum price and the foreseeable depletion of fossil fuels has prompted
research on bioenergy, particularly bioethanol and biobutanol from renewable …

Aims To explore novel microbial endoglucanases with unique properties derived from
extreme environments by using metagenomics approach. Methods and results A Tibetan …