Developing economically viable, scalable, and sustainable technologies for the conversion
of lignocellulosic polysaccharides to liquid fuels is widely seen as a centerpiece of the …

Inertness and the indiscriminate use of synthetic polymers leading to increased land and
water pollution are of great concern. Plastic is the most useful synthetic polymer, employed …

Highlights•Cellulosic biofuels are becoming a commercial reality but are still
expensive.•Cost-lowering innovations can involve established or new paradigms.• …

Cellulosomes are multienzyme complexes that are produced by anaerobic cellulolytic
bacteria for the degradation of lignocellulosic biomass. They comprise a complex of …

Lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) is globally available and sustainable feedstock containing
sugar-rich platform that can be converted to biofuels and specialty products through …

Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant sustainable carbon source on the planet and
has enormous potential to substitute fossil resources on the premise of cost-effective …

Vitamin and mineral (micronutrient) deficiencies afflict 2 billion people. Although the impact
of these imbalances on host biology has been studied extensively, much less is known …

Plant-biomass-based nanomaterials have attracted great interest recently for their potential
to replace petroleum-sourced polymeric materials for sustained economic development …

Biological features can be inferred, based on genomic data, for many microbial lineages that
remain uncultured. However, cultivation is important for characterizing an organism's …

The rumen of ruminants is a natural anaerobic fermentation system that efficiently degrades
lignocellulosic biomass and mainly depends on synergistic interactions between multiple …