Filamentous ascomycetes fungi have had important roles in natural cycles, and are already
used industrially for eg supplying of citric, gluconic and itaconic acids as well as many …

The use of lignocellulosic biomass for the production of biofuels will be unavoidable if liquid
fossil fuels are to be replaced by renewable and sustainable alternatives. Ethanol accounts …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Hypocrea jecorina (= Trichoderma reesei) is the main industrial source of cellulases and
hemicellulases used to depolymerise plant biomass to simple sugars that are converted to …

Neurospora crassa colonizes burnt grasslands in the wild and metabolizes both cellulose
and hemicellulose from plant cell walls. When switched from a favored carbon source such …

Lignocellulosic (LC) biomass is the most abundant renewable resource for mankind
gravitating society towards sustainable solution for energy that can reduce the carbon …

Fungal cellulases offer advantages of a secreted enzyme complex and relative easiness
and economy of producing enzyme. Considerable amount of work has been done on fungal …

Background Spent hydrolysates from bioethanolic fermentation processes based on
agricultural residues have potential as an abundant and inexpensive source of pentose …

Textile waste is one type of municipal solid waste growing rapidly in recent years. In Hong
Kong, 306 t of textile waste were produced daily in 2015 and more than 90% of these ended …

Abstract Main conclusion Exposure of Arabidopsis callus to microgravity has a significant
impact on the expression of proteins involved in stress responses, carbohydrate metabolism …