Synergistic collaboration of gut symbionts in Odontotermes formosanus for lignocellulosic degradation and bio-hydrogen production

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 145, Issue , 2013, Pages 337-344

  Mathew, Gincy Marina ^a   Mathew, Dony Chacko ^a   Lo, Shou Chen ^a   Alexios, Georgy Mathew ^b   Yang, Jia Cih ^a   Sashikumar, Jagathala Mahalingam ^c   Shaikh, Tanveer Mahamadali ^a   Huang, Chieh Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Mount Zion College of Engineering for Women   (India)

^c HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Bacillus; Clostridium; Odontotermes formosanus; Solid state NMR; Termitomyces

Indexed keywords

BACILLI; CLOSTRIDIUM; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; MICROORGANISMS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

ANAEROBIC ENVIRONMENT; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIO-HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; ODONTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES; SOLID STATE NMR; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION; TERMITOMYCES;

BACTERIOLOGY;

CARBON; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; LIGNOCELLULOSE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOFUEL; CELLULOSE; FERMENTATION; HYDROGEN; LIGNIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SUBSTRATE; SYMBIONT; TERMITE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; MANGO; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ODONTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; SYMBIONT; TERMITOMYCES; TREE;

CLOSTRIDIUM; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; ODONTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; TERMITOMYCES;

BACILLUS; CLOSTRIDIUM; ODONTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; SOLID-STATE NMR; TERMITOMYCES;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA PRIMERS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; ISOPTERA; LIGNIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MANGIFERA; SYMBIOSIS; TAIWAN; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 84883465600     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.12.055     Document Type: Article

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