Highlights•Lignocellulosic biomass utilization is crucial for sustainable development.•Lignin
has two characteristics, a useful biomass component and an inhibitor of wall …

Wastes generated from fruits and vegetables are organic in nature and contribute a major
share in soil and water pollution. Also, green house gas emission caused by fruit and …

Lignin is a wasted renewable source of biomass-derived value-added chemicals. However,
due to its material resistance to degradation, it remains highly underutilized. In order to …

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 …

Pectin, also known as pectic compounds, is a fundamental component of plant cell walls that
imparts rigidity and structure. Pectin lyases have a unique β-elimination mechanism of …

Plastid transformation has emerged as an alternative platform to generate transgenic plants.
Attractive features of this technology include specific integration of transgenes—either …

In a circular economy era the transition towards renewable and sustainable materials is very
urgent. The development of bio-based solutions, that can ensure technological circularity in …

Microbial cell wall‐deconstructing enzymes are widely used in the food, wine, pulp and
paper, textile, and detergent industries and will be heavily utilized by cellulosic biorefineries …

Commercial scale production of biofuels from lignocellulosic feed stocks has been
hampered by the resistance of plant cell walls to enzymatic conversion, primarily owing to …

The high capacity of the chloroplast genome to integrate and express transgenes at high
levels makes transplastomic technology a good option for overexpressing proteins of …