Biomass recalcitrance: Engineering plants and enzymes for biofuels production

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5813, 2007, Pages 804-807

  Himmel, Michael E ^a   Ding, Shi You ^a   Johnson, David K ^a   Adney, William S ^a   Nimlos, Mark R ^a   Brady, John W ^b   Foust, Thomas D ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; BIOMATERIAL; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; ENZYME; LIGNOCELLULOSE;

BIOENERGY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS; CELLULOSE; ENERGY MARKET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIGNIN; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SUSTAINABILITY;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL WALL; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FERMENTATION; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; CELL WALL; CELLULASES; CELLULOSE; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ETHANOL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 33846951759     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137016     Document Type: Review

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42. We acknowledge the support of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of the Biomass Program. We also thank W. Gretz for providing the picture shown in Fig. 1A, T. Vinzant for providing the image shown in Fig. 1B, and D. Seely at Pixel Kitchen for providing the image shown in Fig. 3.