From plant biomass to bio-based chemicals: Latest developments in xylan research

For a hundred years or more, oil and natural gas has supplied fuel and other raw chemicals to support economic growth. In the last decades their shrinking reservoirs and the increasing cost of production has become obvious, leading researchers to look for alternative substitutes of all the chemical...

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Published in:	Biotechnology advances 2012-11, Vol.30 (6), p.1627-1640
Main Authors:	Deutschmann, Rudolf, Dekker, Robert F.H.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	analytical methods Biological and medical sciences Biomass Biopolymer Biorefinery Biotechnology Biotechnology - methods Carbohydrate Sequence Commercial spacecraft Cost engineering economic development Ethanol Ethyl alcohol Extraction Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Molecular Sequence Data Natural gas oils Organic Chemicals - metabolism Plants (organisms) Plants - metabolism Prebiotics production costs Xylan Xylans - chemistry Xylans - metabolism xylitol Xylooligosaccharide xylooligosaccharides Xylose
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