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Routes to Cellulosic Ethanol

Editors:

  1. Marcos Silveira Buckeridge

    1. Depto. Botânica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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  2. Gustavo H Goldman

    1. Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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  • poses important questions on biofuels and the importance for the energy matrix and possible biotechnological routes to obtain energy from cellulose
  • explores obtaining hydrolases from microorganisms
  • This volume deals with the pros and cons of modifying plant genome to improve cellulosic ethanol
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Bioenergy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    3. Bioenergy and the Sustainable Revolution

      • Wanderley D. dos Santos, Edgardo O. Gómez, Marcos S. Buckeridge
      Pages 15-26

    4. Biomass Gasification for Ethanol Production

      • Luiz A. H. Nogueira, Joaquim E. A. Seabra, Isaías C. Macedo
      Pages 27-41

  3. Plant Cell Walls, Enzymes, and Metabolism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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  4. Plant cell walls, enzymes and metabolism

    3. Enzymology of Plant Cell Wall Breakdown: An Update

      • Leonora R. S. Moreira, Natália vG. Milanezi, Edivaldo X. F. Filho
      Pages 73-96

    4. Enzymes in Bioenergy

      • Viviane I. Serpa, Igor Polikarpov
      Pages 97-113

    5. Hydrolases from Microorganisms used for Degradation of Plant Cell Wall and Bioenergy

      • Maria L. T. M. Polizeli, Emanuelle C. P. Corrêa, Aline M. Polizeli, João A. Jorge
      Pages 115-134

  5. Plant Cell Wall Genetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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  6. Plant cell wall genetics

    1. Tropical Maize: Exploiting Maize Genetic Diversity to Develop a Novel Annual Crop for Lignocellulosic Biomass and Sugar Production

      • Wendy G. White, Stephen P. Moose, Clifford F. Weil, Maureen C. McCann, Nicholas C. Carpita, Fred E. Below
      Pages 167-179

    3. Sugarcane Breeding and Selection for more Efficient Biomass Conversion in Cellulosic Ethanol

      • Marcelo E. Loureiro, Márcio H. P. Barbosa, Francis J. F. Lopes, Flaviano O. Silvério
      Pages 199-239

    4. Cell Wall Genomics in the Recombinogenic Moss Physcomitrella patens

      • Michael A. Lawton, Hemalatha Saidasan
      Pages 241-261

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 263-270
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About this book

The perception that civilization is crossing a period of Global Climatic Changes that can seriously threaten our lifestyle, along with energy security and the search for prosperity, are the main drivers that are pushing men to use more biomass as a source of energy. It will be crucial that such intent will include a large parcel of sustainability so that more renewable energy becomes available for populations. Because large amounts of energy are “hidden” in carbon polymers made by plants, notably carbohydrates, it is obvious that if technologies are developed to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol from carbohydrate polymers such as cellulose, men could significantly increase energy sustainability . This book reviews general aspects of biomass utilization for bioenergy production as well as strategies using biochemistry, molecular biology, chemistry and physics to disassemble plant cell walls. Recent discoveries of basic science under development in several laboratories in the world are reviewed by experts that have been intensively working with many aspects that will impact the development of the technology of production of cellulosic ethanol.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Depto. Botânica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Marcos Silveira Buckeridge

  • Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Gustavo H Goldman

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About the editors

Marcos S. Buckeridge, is a biologist who worked for more than 20 years with the structure and function of plant cell walls. After many years at the Botanical Garden of São Paulo, he moved to the University of São Paulo where incorporated in his lines of research investigation of sugarcane cell walls and sugarcane physiology. At the same time he founded the Laboratory or Plant Physiological Ecology (LAFIECO) dedicated exclusively to study the effects of the global climate changes on crop and native rain forest species. He will be one of the lead authors of the IPCC report for 2014. Buckeridge helped to found the BioEn-FAPESP, one or the most important research programs in bioenergy in Brazil. More recently he became coordinator of the National Institute of Science and Technology of Bioethanol, and is now the scientific director of the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology National Laboratory (CTBE) at Campinas, Brazil. He is communicating editor for the journals Trees: structure and function, Global Change Biology Bioenergy and Bioenergy Research. Gustavo H. Goldman is a biologist, Professor of Molecular Biology at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, Researcher of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Brazil, and a former fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, USA. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology National Laboratory (CTBE) at Campinas, Brazil, and Visiting Professor at the Universidade do Minho, Portugal. His expertise is on the molecular genetics of fungi mainly working on the molecular biology of Aspergilli. Goldman has been working with fungal genomics for many years and has several collaborations with the JCVI and the Brod Institute-MIT, both at USA. He is currently Associate Editor of PLoS One, Fungal Genetics and Biology, and BMC Genomics.
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