Lignocellulosic plant biomass is recognized as an alternative resource for sustainable
production of liquid fuels, chemicals, and polymeric materials through the biorefining …

Lignocelluloses are often a major or sometimes the sole components in different waste
streams from various sources such as industries, forestry, agriculture and municipalities. It …

Lignocellulosic materials, such as forest, agriculture, and agroindustrial residues, are among
the most important resources for biorefineries to provide fuels, chemicals, and materials in …

Currently major part of the world's energy requirements is fulfilled by fossil resources.
Severe economic and environmental problems along with their limited resources are still a …

This review presents a comprehensive discussion of the key technical issues in woody
biomass pretreatment: barriers to efficient cellulose saccharification, pretreatment energy …

Hemicellulose, the second, most common polysaccharide in nature constitutes
approximately 20—35% of lignocellulosic biomass. Effective utilization of biomass, hitherto …

Driven by the increase in industrialization and population, the global demand for energy and
material products is steadily growing. Since the world primary sources for energy and …

The natural resistance to enzymatic deconstruction exhibited by lignocellulosic materials
has designated pretreatment as a key step in the biological conversion of biomass to …

Pretreatment is considered to be a central unit process in a biorefinery to convert
lignocellulosic biomass into fuels and chemicals, affecting all other operations in the …

This work reviews the brown-rot fungal biochemical mechanism involved in the
biodegradation of lignified plant cell walls. This mechanism has been acquired as an …