Current status and strategies for second generation biofuel production using microbial systems

SK Bhatia, SH Kim, JJ Yoon, YH Yang - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Economic growth and industrial energy demand necessitate sustainable energy resources.
The food vs. fuel issue means that first generation biofuels appear unsustainable. Therefore …

An overview on bioethanol production from lignocellulosic feedstocks

M Toor, SS Kumar, SK Malyan, NR Bishnoi… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic ethanol has been proposed as a green alternative to fossil fuels for many
decades. However, commercialization of lignocellulosic ethanol faces major hurdles …

Fatty acid synthesis in Escherichia coli and its applications towards the production of fatty acid based biofuels

HJ Janßen, A Steinbüchel - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2014 - Springer
The idea of renewable and regenerative resources has inspired research for more than a
hundred years. Ideally, the only spent energy will replenish itself, like plant material …

Functional characterization of thermotolerant microbial consortium for lignocellulolytic enzymes with central role of Firmicutes in rice straw depolymerization

PV Gavande, A Basak, S Sen, K Lepcha, N Murmu… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) straw, an agricultural waste of high yield, is a sustainable source of
fermentable sugars for biofuel and other chemicals. However, it shows recalcitrance to …

Advances in consolidated bioprocessing systems for bioethanol and butanol production from biomass: a comprehensive review

G Salehi Jouzani, MJ Taherzadeh - Biofuel Research Journal, 2015 - diva-portal.org
Recently, lignocellulosic biomass as the most abundant renewable resource has been
widely considered for bioalcohols production. However, the complex structure of …

Towards lactic acid bacteria-based biorefineries

R Mazzoli, F Bosco, I Mizrahi, EA Bayer… - Biotechnology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have long been used in industrial applications mainly as starters
for food fermentation or as biocontrol agents or as probiotics. However, LAB possess several …

Challenges and advances in the heterologous expression of cellulolytic enzymes: a review

C Lambertz, M Garvey, J Klinger, D Heesel… - Biotechnology for …, 2014 - Springer
Second generation biofuel development is increasingly reliant on the recombinant
expression of cellulases. Designing or identifying successful expression systems is thus of …

Feasibilities of consolidated bioprocessing microbes: from pretreatment to biofuel production

V Parisutham, TH Kim, SK Lee - Bioresource technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Lignocelluloses are rich sugar treasures, which can be converted to useful commodities
such as biofuel with the help of efficient combination of enzymes and microbes. Although …

Pathway dissection, regulation, engineering and application: lessons learned from biobutanol production by solventogenic clostridia

S Li, L Huang, C Ke, Z Pang, L Liu - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2020 - Springer
The global energy crisis and limited supply of petroleum fuels have rekindled the interest in
utilizing a sustainable biomass to produce biofuel. Butanol, an advanced biofuel, is a …

Current progress on engineering microbial strains and consortia for production of cellulosic butanol through consolidated bioprocessing

A Re, R Mazzoli - Microbial Biotechnology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decades, fermentative production of n‐butanol has regained substantial interest
mainly owing to its use as drop‐in‐fuel. The use of lignocellulose as an alternative to …