Fast pyrolysis is a promising thermochemical technology that breaks down renewable and
abundant lignocellulosic biomass into a primary liquid product (bio‐oil) in seconds. The bio …

Bioconversion of renewable lignocellulosic biomass to biofuel and value added products
are globally gaining significant prominence. Market forces demonstrate a drive towards …

Basidiomycete fungi subsist on various types of plant material in diverse environments, from
living and dead trees and forest litter to crops and grasses and to decaying plant matter in …

Plant cell walls consist of carbohydrate, protein, and aromatic compounds and are essential
to the proper growth and development of plants. The carbohydrate components make up∼ …

One major component of plant cell walls is a diverse group of polysaccharides, the
hemicelluloses. Hemicelluloses constitute roughly one-third of the wall biomass and …

Hemicelluloses, comprising the non-cellulose cell-wall polysaccharides of vegetative and
storage tissues of annual and perennial plants, represent an immense renewable resource …

Degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides is of major importance in the food and feed,
beverage, textile, and paper and pulp industries, as well as in several other industrial …

Plant cell walls are complex, dynamic cellular structures essential for plant growth,
development, physiology and adaptation. Plant Cell Walls provides an in depth and diverse …

Plant cell walls represent the most abundant renewable resource on this planet. Despite
their great abundance, only 2% of this resource is currently used by humans. Hence …

Completely revised and expanded to reflect the latest advancements in the field,
Polysaccharides: Structural Diversity and Functional Versatility, Second Edition outlines …