Twentieth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Feedstocks: New Supplies and Processing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Feedstocks

      • Thomas W. Jeffries, Y. Y. Lee

      Pages 3-4

   3. Natural and Somatic Embryo Development in Loblolly Pine

      • John Cairney, Nanfei Xu, Gerald S. Pullman, Vincent T. Ciavatta, Barbara Johns

      Pages 5-17

   4. Alkaline and Peracetic Acid Pretreatments of Biomass for Ethanol Production

      • Lincoln C. Teixeira, James C. Linden, Herbert A. Schroeder

      Pages 19-34

   5. Extrusion Processing for Ammonia Fiber Explosion (AFEX)

      • Bruce E. Dale, Justin Weaver, F. Michael Byers

      Pages 35-45

   6. Optimization of Steam Explosion to Enhance Hemicellulose Recovery and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose in Softwoods

      • Michael M. Wu, Kevin Chang, David J. Gregg, Abdel Boussaid, Rodger P. Beatson, John N. Saddler

      Pages 47-54

   7. Two High-Throughput Techniques for Determining Wood Properties as Part of a Molecular Genetics Analysis of Hybrid Poplar and Loblolly Pine

      • Gerald Tuskan, Darrell West, Harvey D. Bradshaw, David Neale, Mitch Sewell, Nick Wheeler et al.

      Pages 55-65

   8. Modeling the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Dilute-Acid Pretreated Douglas Fir

      • Daniel J. Schell, Mark F. Ruth, Melvin P. Tucker

      Pages 67-81

   9. Environmentally Friendly Lubricating Oil Candidate

      • Aykut Özgülsün, Filiz Karaosmanoğlu

      Pages 83-89

   10. Comparison of Different Methods for the Detoxification of Lignocellulose Hydrolyzates of Spruce

       • Simona Larsson, Anders Reimann, Nils-Olof Nilvebrant, Leif J. Jönsson

       Pages 91-103

   11. Alfalfa Fiber as a Feedstock for Ethanol and Organic Acids

       • Richard G. Koegel, Hassan K. Sreenath, Richard J. Straub

       Pages 105-115

   12. Steam Explosion of Straw in Batch and Continuous Systems

       • Francesco Zimbardi, Donato Viggiano, Francesco Nanna, Mario Demichele, Daniela Cuna, Giovanni Cardinale

       Pages 117-125

   13. Oxidation of Organosolv Lignins in Acetic Acid

       • Adilson R. Gonçalves, Ulf Schuchardt

       Pages 127-132

   14. Dilute Acid Hydrolysis of Softwoods

       • Quang A. Nguyen, Melvin P. Tucker, Fred A. Keller, Delicia A. Beaty, Kevin M. Connors, Fannie P. Eddy

       Pages 133-142

3. Applied Biological Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Applied Biological Research

      • Douglas C. Cameron, Min Zhang

      Pages 145-145

   3. Evaluation of Recombinant Strains of Zymomonas mobilis for Ethanol Production from Glucose/Xylose Media

      • Eva Joachimsthal, Kevin D. Haggett, Peter L. Rogers

      Pages 147-157

   4. Site-Directed Mutagenesis Study on the Thermal Stability of a Chimeric PQQ Glucose Dehydrogenase and Its Structural Interpretation

      • Arief Budi Witarto, Takafumi Ohtera, Koji Sode

      Pages 159-168

   5. Isolation and Analysis of Tetraheme-Bound-Cytochrome from Photosynthetic Reaction Centers of Rhodopseudomonas viridis

      • Chikashi Nakamura, Miki Hasegawa, Masayuki Hara, Jun Miyake

      Pages 169-179

active industrial participation in the organizing committee. Recently, the conference has begun a regular informal industrial roundtable (Session 4). This has become very popular as it allows industrial participants to speak more openly. For a broader perspective, R. James Woolsey, Former Direc­ tor of Central Intelligence Agency, gave an after-dinner address on "Wagon Trains for the 21st Century: The Role for Biorefineries. " He urged the attendees of the importance of their efforts to develop renewable, benign processes for the United States and the world based on both security and prosperity reasons. These related to energy supply, support of domestic agriculture, global warming, and other issues. With the Twentieth Symposium, we continued the tradition of pro­ viding an informal, congenial atmosphere that our participants find condu­ cive to pursuing technical discussion of program topics. The technical program consisted of 35 oral presentations, a roundtable forum, two spe­ cial topic discussions, and a poster session of 133 posters. This year, tech­ nical topics included: Session 1: Feedstocks: New Supplies and Processing Session 2: Applied Biological Research Session 3: Bioprocessing Research Session 4: Emerging Opportunities for Industrial Chemicals Session 5: Bioprocess Evaluation and Confirmation Session 6: Enzymatic Processes and Enzyme Production Special topic discussions were held on "Defining the Future Separa­ tions Needs Derived from Bioprocessing" by Earl Beaver, Monsanto Com­ pany, St.

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• Fermentation
• Glucose
• biochemistry
• biomass
• biotechnology
• chemistry
• environment
• gene expression
• modeling
• mutagenesis
• plants
• reaction
• transgen

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

  Brian H. Davison

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

  Mark Finkelstein

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