Increased human population and the rapid decline of fossil fuels resulted in a global
tendency to look for alternative fuel sources. Environmental concerns about fossil fuel …

Highlights•Yeasts possess ideal and favorable bioprocessing traits.•The field is diversifying
beyond ethanol and Saccharomyces.•Metabolic engineering efforts enable new value …

Conversion of cellulose, hemicellulose or starch to ethanol via a biological route requires
enzymatic conversion of these substrates to monosaccharides that can be assimilated by a …

Microbial production of fuels and chemicals from renewable carbohydrate feedstocks offers
sustainable and economically attractive alternatives to their petroleum-based production …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the preferred microorganism for the production of bioethanol
from biomass. Industrial strain development for first-generation ethanol from sugar cane and …

Microorganisms are effective platforms for the production of a variety of chemicals including
biofuels, commodity chemicals, polymers and other natural products. However, deep cellular …

The traditional use of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in alcoholic fermentation has,
over time, resulted in substantial accumulated knowledge concerning genetics, physiology …

Biofuel, the alternative energy, aims to greatly reduce the carbon emissions on earth.
Cellulosic ethanol is expected to replace the first generation biofuel made by agriculture …

Current world energy demand is based on fossil fuels, which will vanish in coming decades.
Renewable energy especially biofuels has attracted great interest as solutions to the current …

Despite a growing preference for second-generation (2G) ethanol in industries, its
application is severely restricted owing to a major obstacle of developing a suitable yeast …