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Fermentative production of butanol--the industrial perspective.
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This review describes re-commercialization efforts and highlights developments in feedstock utilization, microbial strain development and fermentation process development, all of which significantly impact production costs.About:
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Green and sustainable manufacture of chemicals from biomass: state of the art
TL;DR: In this article, various strategies for the valorisation of waste biomass to platform chemicals, and the underlying developments in chemical and biological catalysis which make this possible, are critically reviewed, and three possible routes for producing a bio-based equivalent of the large volume polymer, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are delineated.
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Alcohol combustion chemistry
TL;DR: A detailed overview of recent results on alcohol combustion can be found in this paper, with a particular emphasis on butanols and other linear and branched members of the alcohol family, from methanol to hexanols.
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Clostridia: the importance of their exceptional substrate and metabolite diversity for biofuel and biorefinery applications.
TL;DR: Pathway engineering to combine established substrate-utilization programs, such as for cellulose, CO2/H2 or CO, with desirable metabolic programs could lead to modular design of strains suitable for many applications.
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Microbial volatile emissions as insect semiochemicals.
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that insect olfactory responses to emissions from microorganisms inhabiting their sensory environment are much more common than currently recognized, and that these signals represent evolutionarily reliable infochemicals.
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Bioproduction of butanol from biomass: from genes to bioreactors
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Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of n-butanol
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TL;DR: Saccharomyces cerevisiae was engineered with an n-butanol biosynthetic pathway, in which isozymes from a number of different organisms were substituted for Clostridial enzymes and their effect on n- butanol production was compared.