Agave proves to be a low recalcitrant lignocellulosic feedstock for biofuels production on semi-arid lands

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Li, Hongjia ^a,e,f   Pattathil, Sivakumar ^b,e   Foston, Marcus B ^c,e,g   Ding, Shi You ^d,e   Kumar, Rajeev ^a,e   Gao, Xiadi ^a,e   Mittal, Ashutosh ^d   Yarbrough, John M ^d   Himmel, Michael E ^d,e   Ragauskas, Arthur J ^c,e   Hahn, Michael G ^b,e   Wyman, Charles E ^a,e  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d National Renewable Eneryy Laboratory   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f DuPont Industrial Biosciences   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agave; Biofuels; Feedstock; Low recalcitrance; Semi arid land

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGAVE; CELLULOSIC ENERGY CROPS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; LIGNOCELLULOSIC FEEDSTOCKS; LOW RECALCITRANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE(NMR); SEMI-ARID LANDS; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES;

FEEDSTOCKS;

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; CELLULOSE; ENERGY CROP; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; LIGNIN; SEMIARID REGION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

AGAVE; PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84899587243     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-7-50     Document Type: Article

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