More than 70 years ago, the filamentous ascomycete Trichoderma reesei was isolated on
the Solomon Islands due to its ability to degrade and thrive on cellulose containing fabrics …

Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing field because of its wide range of applications in
science, nanoscience and biotechnology. Nanobiotechnology deals with nanomaterials …

One of the requirements for advancement of nanotechnology are the development of
reliable experimental protocols for the synthesis of nanomaterials over a range of biological …

The genus Trichoderma contains fungi with high relevance for humans, with applications in
enzyme production for plant cell wall degradation and use in biocontrol. Here, we provide a …

The US DOE Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) mandated attainment of a
national production level of 36 billion gallons of biofuels (to be added to gasoline) by 2022 …

Lignocellulosic biomass is uniquely suited as a sustainable feedstock for the
biotechnological production of alternative fuels and chemicals. However, due to the biomass …

Laccases are blue multicopper oxidases, catalyzing the oxidation of an array of aromatic
substrates concomitantly with the reduction of molecular oxygen to water. These enzymes …

Recent progress and improvement in “-omics” technologies has made it possible to study
the physiology of organisms by integrated and genome-wide approaches. This bears the …

A total of 75 isolates belonging to five different species of Trichoderma viz., T. asperellum, T.
harzianum, T. longibrachiatum, T. pseudokoningii and T. virens were screened for the …

Background It has become evident that host cells react to recombinant protein production
with a variety of metabolic and intrinsic stresses such as the unfolded protein response …