Biofuels provide a potential route to avoiding the global political instability and
environmental issues that arise from reliance on petroleum. Currently, most biofuel is in the …

With unfavourable climate changes and an increasing global population, there is a great
need for more productive and stress-tolerant crops. As traditional methods of crop …

Sugarcane, the world's most harvested crop by tonnage, has shaped global history, trade
and geopolitics, and is currently responsible for 80% of sugar production worldwide. While …

Polysaccharide-degrading microorganisms express a repertoire of hydrolytic enzymes that
act in synergy on plant cell wall and other natural polysaccharides to elicit the degradation of …

Polysaccharides are natural chemical compounds that are extensively employed in the food
and pharmaceutical industries. They exhibit a wide range of physical and biological …

A library of 75 different chimeric cellulosomes was constructed as an extension of our
previously described approach for the production of model functional complexes (Fierobe …

Cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer synthesized on land, is made of linear chains of ß
(1–4) linked D-glucose. As a major structural component of the cell wall, cellulose is …

A rice straw-cellulose utilizing mold was isolated from rotted rice straw residues. The efficient
rice straw degrading microorganism was identified as Trichoderma reesei. The results …

Stalk lodging in maize results in significant yield losses. We have determined that cellulose
per unit length of the stalk is the primary determinant of internodal strength. An increase in …

The soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines, adversely affects the production of
soybean, Glycine max, in many areas of the world, particularly in the United States, where it …