Lignocellulose Conversion

1. Introduction: Potential of Cellulosic Ethanol
Takashi Watanabe

2. Sources for Lignocellulosic Raw Materials for the Production of Ethanol
Yitzhak Hadar

3. The Pretreatment Step in Lignocellulosic Biomass Conversion: Current Systems and New Biological Systems
Adenise Lorenci Woiciechowski, Luciana Porto Souza Vandenberghe, Susan Grace Karp, Luiz Alberto Junior Letti, Júlio Cesar Carvalho, Adriane Bianchi Pedroni Medeiros, Michele Rigon Spier, Vincenza Faraco, Vanete Thomaz Soccol, Carlos Ricardo Soccol

4. The Saccharification Step: Trichoderma Reesei Cellulase Hyper Producer Strains
Venkatesh Balan, Mingjie Jin, Alan Culbertson, Nirmal Uppugundla

5. The Saccharification Step: The Main Enzymatic Components
Marie Couturier, Jean-Guy Berrin

6. Extremophilic (Hemi)cellulolytic Microorganisms and Enzymes
Beatrice Cobucci-Ponzano, Elena Ionata, Francesco La Cara, Alessandra Morana, Maria Carmina Ferrara, Luisa Maurelli, Andrea Strazzulli, Rosa Giglio, Marco Moracci

7. The Alcohol Fermentation Step: The Most Common Ethanologenic Microorganisms Among Yeasts, Bacteria and Filamentous Fungi
Parameswaran Binod, Raveendran Sindhu, Ashok Pandey

8. Other Ethanologenic Microorganisms
Eulogio Castro

9. Consolidated Bioprocessing for Improving Cellulosic Ethanol Production
Antonella Amore, Simona Giacobbe, Vincenza Faraco

Keywords: Life Sciences, Enzymology, Microbiology, Plant Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Renewable and Green Energy