Metabolic engineering applications to renewable resource utilization

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-198

  Aristidou, Aristos ^a   Penttilä, Merja ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ARABINOSE; CELLULOSE; GLUCOSE; HEMICELLULOSE; HEXOSE; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; PENTOSE; XYLOSE;

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ECONOMICS; ENERGY RESOURCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROLYSIS; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PICHIA PASTORIS; PICHIA STIPITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; PICHIA PASTORIS; PICHIA STIPITIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0034071629     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(00)00085-9     Document Type: Review

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