Seaweeds have attracted high interest in recent years due to their chemical and bioactive
properties to find new molecules with valuable applications for humankind. Phenolic …

Soil improvement using biopolymers has attracted considerable attention in recent years,
with the aim to reduce the harmful environmental effects of traditional materials, such as …

Marine macroalgae are considered as promising sustainable alternatives to conventional
terrestrial animal feed resources. The advantages include high growth rate, potential …

Due to diminishing petroleum reserves and deleterious environmental consequences of
exhaust gases from fossil-based fuels, research on renewable and environment friendly …

Aromatic amino acid deaminases are key enzymes mediating carbon flux from primary to
secondary metabolism in plants. Recent studies have uncovered a tyrosine ammonia-lyase …

Following first-generation and second-generation biofuels produced from food and non-food
crops, respectively, algal biomass has become an important feedstock for the production of …

The battle between plants and microbes is evolutionarily ancient, highly complex, and often
co-dependent. A primary challenge for microbes is to breach the physical barrier of host cell …

Lignin is the generic term for a large group of aromatic polymers resulting from the oxidative
combinatorial coupling of 4-hydroxyphenylpropanoids (Boerjan et al., 2003; Ralph et al …

Covering: up to 2011 Lignin is a heterogeneous aromatic polymer found as 10–35% of
lignocellulose, found in plant cell walls. The bio-conversion of plant lignocellulose to …

The evolution of lignin biosynthesis was critical in the transition of plants from an aquatic to
an upright terrestrial lifestyle. Lignin is assembled by oxidative polymerization of two major …