During the most recent decades increased interest in fuel from biomass in the United States
and worldwide has emerged each time petroleum derived gasoline registered well …

Plant cell walls consist of carbohydrate, protein, and aromatic compounds and are essential
to the proper growth and development of plants. The carbohydrate components make up∼ …

The oil crisis during the 1970s turned interest towards the utilization of renewable resources
and towards lignocellulosics in particular. The 1970s were also the cradle period of …

The 11 chapters of this book deal with fundamental aspects of food protein hydrolysis and its
application to various proteins (including milk proteins), methods of protein hydrolysis …

Lignocellulosic materials such as wood, grass, and agricultural and forest residues are
promising alternative energy resources that can be utilized to produce ethanol. The yield of …

Various agricultural residues, such as corn fiber, corn stover, wheat straw, rice straw, and
sugarcane bagasse, contain about 20–40% hemicellulose, the second most abundant …

Pectin is a family of complex polysaccharides present in all plant primary cell walls. The
complicated structure of the pectic polysaccharides, and the retention by plants of the large …

Degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides is of major importance in the food and feed,
beverage, textile, and paper and pulp industries, as well as in several other industrial …

5.!. Trypsins 5.2. Chymotrypsins 5.3. Cysteine proteinases 5.4. Aspartic proteinases 5.5.
Miscellaneous proteinases 5.6. Aminopeptidases 5.7. Carboxypeptidases 5.8. Dipeptidases …

INTRODUCTION 3-1, 4-Xylans are heterogeneous polysaccharides found in the cell walls of
all land plants and in almost all plant parts (147). The hydrolysis of their characteristic …