New Microbial Technologies for Advanced Biofuels

Introduction Overview Co-Production of High-Value Recombinant Biobased Matter in Bioenergy Crops for Expediting the Cellulosic Biofuels Agenda; Mariam B. Sticklen Synthetic Biology: A Promising Technology for Biofuel Production; Kamaljeet Kaur Sekhon and Pattanathu K. S. M. Rahman Challenges and Generations of Biofuels: Will Algae Fuel the World?; Yaser Dhaman and Pallavi Roy Part I: Microorganisms 2Selection of Organisms for Systems Biology Study of Microbial Electricity Generation: A Review; Longfei Mao and Wynand S. Verwoerd From Tiny Microalgae to Huge Biorefineries; Luisa Gouveia Yeast Biotechnology: Teaching the Old Dog New Tricks; Diethard Mattanovich, Michael Sauer, and Brigitte Gasser Microbial Community Structures Differentiated in a Single-Chamber Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cell Fueled with Rice Straw Hydrolysate; Zejie Wang, Taekwon Lee, Bongsu Lim, Chansoo Choi, and Joonhong Park Metataxonomic Profiling and Prediction of Functional Behavior of Wheat Straw Degrading Microbial Consortia; Diego Javier Jimenez, Francisco Dini-Andreote, and Jan Dirk van Elsas Part II: Pretreatments Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass Using Microorganisms: Approaches, Advantages, and Limitations; Thomas Canam, Jennifer Town, Kingsley Iroba, Lope Tabil, and Tim Dumonceaux Discovery and Characterization of Ionic Liquid-Tolerant Thermophilic Cellulases from a Switchgrass-Adapted Microbial Community; John M. Gladden, Joshua I. Park, Jessica Bergmann, Vimalier Reyes-Ortiz, Patrik D'haeseleer, Betania F. Quirino, Kenneth L. Sale, Blake A. Simmons, and Steven W. Singer Ultrasonic Disintegration of Microalgal Biomass and Consequent Improvement of Bioaccessibility/Bioavailability in Microbial Fermentation; Byong-Hun Jeon, Jeong-A Choi, Hyun-Chul Kim, Jae-Hoon Hwang, Reda AI Abou-Shanab, Brian A. Dempsey, John M. Regan, and Jung Rae Kim Rapid and Effective Oxidative Pretreatment of Woody Biomass at Mild Reaction Conditions and Low Oxidant Loadings; Zhenglun Li, Charles H. Chen, Eric L. Hegg, and David B. Hodge Part III: Metabolic Engineering Molecular Cloning and Expression of Cellulase and Poly-galacturonase Genes in E. coli as a Promising Application for Biofuel Production; Eman Ibrahim, Kim D. Jones, Ebtesam N. Hosseny, and Jean Escudero Directed Evolution of an E. coli Inner Membrane Transporter for Improved Efflux of Biofuel Molecules; Jee Loon Foo and Susanna Su Jan Leong Generating Phenotypic Diversity in a Fungal Biocatalyst to Investigate Alcohol Stress Tolerance Encountered during Microbial Cellulosic Biofuel Production; Rosanna C. Hennessy, Fiona Doohan, and Ewen Mullins Genome Replication Engineering Assisted Continuous Evolution (GREACE) to Improve Microbial Tolerance for Biofuels Production; Guodong Luan, Zhen Cai, Yin Li, and Yanhe Ma Index