The potential of cellulolytic enzymes has been widely studied and explored for
bioconversion processes and plays a key role in various industrial applications. Cellulase, a …

Insect guts present distinctive environments for microbial colonization, and bacteria in the
gut potentially provide many beneficial services to their hosts. Insects display a wide range …

Their ability to degrade lignocellulose gives termites an important place in the carbon cycle.
This ability relies on their partnership with a diverse community of bacterial, archaeal and …

Lignocellulosic biomass is the earth's most abundant renewable feedstock alternative that
comprises of cellulose, hemi-cellulose and lignin. The synergistic action of …

Summary 1 Many insects derive nutritional advantage from persistent associations with
microorganisms that variously synthesize essential nutrients or digest and detoxify ingested …

Despite the presence of many carbohydrolytic activities in insects, their cellulolytic
mechanisms are poorly understood. Whereas cellulase genes are absent from the genomes …

Lignocellulose—the dry matter of plants, or “plant biomass”—digestion is of increasing
interest in organismal metabolism research, specifically the conversion of biomass into …

Termites thrive in great abundance in terrestrial ecosystems and play important roles in
biorecycling of lignocellulose. Together with their microbial symbionts, they efficiently …

The symbiotic gut microbiota of termites plays important roles in lignocellulose digestion and
nitrogen metabolism. Termites possess a dual cellulolytic system: in lower termites the …

Plant cell-wall polysaccharides constitute the most abundant but recalcitrant organic carbon
source in nature. Microbes residing in the digestive tract of herbivorous bilaterians are …