Abstract Knowledge of the relationships and thus the classification of fungi, has developed
rapidly with increasingly widespread use of molecular techniques, over the past 10–15 …

Tremendous explosion of population has led to about 200% increment of total energy
consumptions in last twenty-five years. Apart from conventional fossil fuel as limited energy …

Lignocellulosic crop residues (LCCRs) hold a significant share of the terrestrial biomass,
estimated at 5 billion Mg per annum globally. A massive amount of these LCCRs are burnt in …

Enzymatic degradation of abundant renewable polysaccharides such as cellulose and
starch is a field that has the attention of both the industrial and scientific community. Most of …

Flumetsulam (FLU) is a new class of broad-spectrum herbicides. With the widespread use of
plastic products, polyethylene (PE) microplastics (MPs) may remain in the soil. It is possible …

Out of the huge quantity of agricultural wastes produced globally, rice straw is one of the
most abundant ligno-cellulosic waste. For efficient utilization of these wastes, several cost …

Thermophilic fungi have attracted considerable attention in recent years as a new source of
thermostable cellulases that could be used to improve various industrial processes, such as …

Bifidobacterium is an important genus of probiotic bacteria colonizing the human gut. These
bacteria can uptake oligosaccharides for the fermentative metabolism of hexoses and …

Sugars are the most stereochemically intricate family of biomolecules and present
substantial challenges to anyone trying to understand their nomenclature, reactions or …

The β-glucosidase gene from Aspergillus nidulans FGSC A4 was cloned and overexpressed
in the A. nidulans A773. The resulting purified β-glucosidase, named AnGH3, is a …