Recent advances and future directions in plant and yeast engineering to improve lignocellulosic biofuel production

JK Ko, JH Lee, JH Jung, SM Lee - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biofuel has been globally recognized as a renewable energy source with
environmental benefits while minimizing the competition between food and fuel supply …

Biodiesel from oil produced in vegetative tissues of biomass–A review

R Singh, A Arora, V Singh - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Biodiesel is a green, renewable alternative to petroleum-derived diesel. However, using
vegetable oil for biodiesel production significantly challenges the food security. Progress in …

Engineering triacylglycerol accumulation in duckweed (Lemna japonica)

Y Liang, XH Yu, S Anaokar, H Shi… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Duckweeds are amongst the fastest growing of higher plants, making them attractive high‐
biomass targets for biofuel feedstock production. Their fronds have high rates of fatty acid …

Running the numbers on plant synthetic biology solutions to global problems

K Van Gelder, ER Oliveira-Filho, CD Messina… - Plant Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering promise to deliver sustainable solutions to
global problems such as phasing out fossil fuels and replacing industrial nitrogen fixation …

Metabolic flux analysis of the non-transitory starch tradeoff for lipid production in mature tobacco leaves

KL Chu, S Koley, LM Jenkins, SR Bailey… - Metabolic …, 2022 - Elsevier
The metabolic plasticity of tobacco leaves has been demonstrated via the generation of
transgenic plants that can accumulate over 30% dry weight as triacylglycerols. In …

Towards a dynamic photosynthesis model to guide yield improvement in C4 crops

Y Wang, KX Chan, SP Long - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The most productive C4 food and biofuel crops, such as Saccharum officinarum
(sugarcane), Sorghum bicolor (sorghum) and Zea mays (maize), all use NADP‐ME‐type C4 …

Design of a high-rate wastewater treatment process for energy and water recovery at biorefineries

Y Li, GA Kontos, DV Cabrera, NM Avila… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Industrial wastewaters rich in organic carbon have potential for value generation, but
conventional, low-rate, anaerobic–aerobic wastewater treatment (WWT) processes often …

Recent advances in metabolic engineering of microorganisms for advancing lignocellulose-derived biofuels

A Joshi, KK Verma, VD Rajput, T Minkina, J Arora - Bioengineered, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Combating climate change and ensuring energy supply to a rapidly growing global
population has highlighted the need to replace petroleum fuels with clean, and sustainable …

Physiological Responses of C4 Perennial Bioenergy Grasses to Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and Constraints

RW Heckman, CG Pereira, MJ Aspinwall… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
C4 perennial bioenergy grasses are an economically and ecologically important group
whose responses to climate change will be important to the future bioeconomy. These …

Genetic engineering for enhancing sugarcane tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses

T Kumar, JG Wang, CH Xu, X Lu, J Mao, XQ Lin… - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sugarcane, a vital cash crop, contributes significantly to the world's sugar supply and raw
materials for biofuel production, playing a significant role in the global sugar industry …