Recent developments in pretreatment technologies on lignocellulosic biomass: effect of key parameters, technological improvements, and challenges

SK Bhatia, SS Jagtap, AA Bedekar, RK Bhatia… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biomass is an inexpensive renewable source that can be used to produce
biofuels and bioproducts. The recalcitrance nature of biomass hampers polysaccharide …

Phenolic cross-links: building and de-constructing the plant cell wall

E Mnich, N Bjarnholt, A Eudes, J Harholt… - Natural product …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: Up to 2019 Phenolic cross-links and phenolic inter-unit linkages result from the
oxidative coupling of two hydroxycinnamates or two molecules of tyrosine. Free dimers of …

Carbohydrate-aromatic interface and molecular architecture of lignocellulose

A Kirui, W Zhao, F Deligey, H Yang, X Kang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Plant cell walls constitute the majority of lignocellulosic biomass and serve as a renewable
resource of biomaterials and biofuel. Extensive interactions between polysaccharides and …

Tailored one-pot lignocellulose fractionation to maximize biorefinery toward versatile xylochemicals and nanomaterials

Y Yu, W Cheng, Y Li, T Wang, Q Xia, Y Liu, H Yu - Green chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Efficient fractionation of lignocellulose and refinery of all its components remain challenging.
Here we describe the use of diol-tailored deep eutectic solvents for superior lignocellulose …

Unlocking the secret of lignin-enzyme interactions: Recent advances in developing state-of-the-art analytical techniques

X Zhao, X Meng, AJ Ragauskas, C Lai, Z Ling… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bioconversion of renewable lignocellulosics to produce liquid fuels and chemicals is one of
the most effective ways to solve the problem of fossil resource shortage, energy security, and …

Lignin engineering in forest trees: from gene discovery to field trials

B De Meester, R Vanholme, T Mota, W Boerjan - Plant Communications, 2022 - cell.com
Wood is an abundant and renewable feedstock for the production of pulp, fuels, and
biobased materials. However, wood is recalcitrant toward deconstruction into cellulose and …

Lignin engineering in forest trees

A Chanoca, L De Vries, W Boerjan - Frontiers in plant science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Wood is a renewable resource that is mainly composed of lignin and cell wall
polysaccharides. The polysaccharide fraction is valuable as it can be converted into pulp …

Redesigning plant cell walls for the biomass-based bioeconomy

NC Carpita, MC McCann - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
Lignocellulosic biomass—the lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose that comprise major
components of the plant cell well—is a sustainable resource that could be utilized in the …

Synchronous and rapid preparation of lignin nanoparticles and carbon quantum dots from natural lignocellulose

M Si, J Zhang, Y He, Z Yang, X Yan, M Liu, S Zhuo… - Green …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a rapid one-pot microwave-assisted strategy toward the synchronous preparation
of two nano-biomaterials with different scales in 10 min: highly monodisperse and stable …

Monolignol acyltransferase for lignin p-hydroxybenzoylation in Populus

Y Zhao, X Yu, PY Lam, K Zhang, Y Tobimatsu, CJ Liu - Nature plants, 2021 - nature.com
Plant lignification exhibits notable plasticity. Lignin in many species, including Populus spp.,
has long been known to be decorated with p-hydroxybenzoates. However, the molecular …