Lignocellulosic biomass to bioethanol, a comprehensive review with a focus on pretreatment

SH Mood, AH Golfeshan, M Tabatabaei… - … and sustainable energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
Pretreatment technologies are aimed to increase enzyme accessibility to biomass and yields
of fermentable sugars. In general, pretreatment methods fall into four different categories …

Engineering plastid genomes: methods, tools, and applications in basic research and biotechnology

R Bock - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The small bacterial-type genome of the plastid (chloroplast) can be engineered by genetic
transformation, generating cells and plants with transgenic plastid genomes, also referred to …

Thermophilic lignocellulose deconstruction

SE Blumer-Schuette, SD Brown… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Thermophilic microorganisms are attractive candidates for conversion of lignocellulose to
biofuels because they produce robust, effective, carbohydrate-degrading enzymes and …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) dual use for food and bioenergy: A review

AA Fathima, M Sanitha, L Tripathi… - Food and Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Cassava (Manihot esculenta. Crantz) is a starch‐rich, woody tuberous, root crop
important for food, with little being done to investigate its potential as a bioenergy crop …

The engineered chloroplast genome just got smarter

S Jin, H Daniell - Trends in plant science, 2015 - cell.com
Chloroplasts are known to sustain life on earth by providing food, fuel, and oxygen through
the process of photosynthesis. However, the chloroplast genome has also been smartly …

Presence and role of anaerobic hydrolytic microbes in conversion of lignocellulosic biomass for biogas production

S Azman, AF Khadem, JB Van Lier… - Critical Reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, biogas production from complex biomass has received great interest.
Therefore, many studies have been conducted to understand the anaerobic digestion …

Plastid transformation: how does it work? Can it be applied to crops? What can it offer?

Y Yu, PC Yu, WJ Chang, K Yu, CS Lin - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, plant genetic engineering has advanced agriculture in terms of crop
improvement, stress and disease resistance, and pharmaceutical biosynthesis. Cells from …

Plastid biotechnology: food, fuel, and medicine for the 21st century

P Maliga, R Bock - Plant Physiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
DNA-containing cellular compartments in plant cells are the nucleus, plastids, and
mitochondria. The nuclear genome, encoding approximately 29,000 to 32,000 genes, is the …

Plant biotechnology for lignocellulosic biofuel production

Q Li, J Song, S Peng, JP Wang, GZ Qu… - Plant biotechnology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Lignocelluloses from plant cell walls are attractive resources for sustainable biofuel
production. However, conversion of lignocellulose to biofuel is more expensive than other …

Recent achievements obtained by chloroplast transformation

M Adem, D Beyene, T Feyissa - Plant Methods, 2017 - Springer
Chloroplasts play a great role for sustained wellbeing of life on the planet. They have the
power and raw materials that can be used as sophisticated biological factories. They are rich …