
Biotransformation of Agricultural Waste and By-Products
The Food, Feed, Fibre, Fuel (4F) Economy
Description
Key Features
- Provides an overview of all plant based biosources
- Includes examples of biochemical/biofuel production from plant waste
- Discusses the production of enzymes used in the plant fermentation processes
- Explores the new fermentation technologies and production of chemicals and fuels from various plants
Readership
Biotechnologists, biochemical engineers, biochemists, microbiologists, plant biochemists, agronomists, research students in these areas, entrepreneurs, policy makers, stakeholders, and politicians
Table of Contents
- Plants biomasses, inedible body of plants, crop residues as valuable material for BBB. Alternatives for valorisation of green wastes ( Dietrich et al).
- Plant waste management today. Composting and biogas. Lignocellulosic biofuel production (Fuel) (Verstichel et al)
- Tobacco seeds rich in oils as a source for biodiesel. Methods for variety selection applied to stress and nematode resistance. Sustainable production exploiting Non-GMO protein residue as feed (Fogher et al.)
- Fruit processing in Central America. (Food, feed, BBB, Fibre, Fuel) (Velasquez et al.)
- Mango industry. (Food, feed, BBB, Fibre, Fuel) (Narasimhan et al.)
- Applications of plant wastes: enzymes, PHA, and succininc acid through fermentation processes. BBB (Sacramento et al.)
- Bio-based biochemicals. Sustainable production of BBB chemicals (succinic acid, itaconic acid, buhanol). Life cycle assessment and economy scale dimension (Dietrich et al.)
- Production of Enzymes in bioreactors and encapsulation for their use in industry. BBB (?).
- Solid State Fermentation. Feed-Batch Fermentations. Purification of valuable compounds. BBB ( Sommer et al.)
- Saccharification of lignocellulosic material. Enzymatic hydrolysis. (Fibre) (Virto et al.)
- Biosynthesis of cellulose and fibres by plants. Biotech engineering for cell wall changes and methods to overcome the length of plant life cycle. Manipulating the polysaccharides and lignin content aiming to optimise biofuel and bioethanol production (Francocci et al.)
GMO acceptance in the world and issues for the overcoming of restrictions. Cisgenesis, RNA transfer, rootstock to shoot delivery, novel methods of transformation (Poltronieri et al.)
Product details
- No. of pages: 398
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2016
- Published: March 1, 2016
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128036488
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128036228
About the Editors
P Poltronieri
Affiliations and Expertise
Oscar D'Urso
Affiliations and Expertise
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