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Cellulases: Role in Lignocellulosic Biomass Utilization

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Rapid depletion of fossil fuels worldwide presents a dire situation demanding a potential replacement to surmount the current energy crisis. Lignocellulose presents a logical candidate to be exploited at industrial scale owing to its vast availability, inexpensive and renewable nature. Microbial degradation of lignocellulosic biomass is a lucrative, sustainable, and promising approach to obtain valuable commercial commodities at gigantic scale. The enzymatic hydrolysis involving cellulases is fundamental to all the technologies needed to transform lignocellulosic biomass to valuable industry relevant products. Cellulases have enormous potential to utilize cellulosic biomass, thus reducing environmental stress in addition to production of commodity chemicals resolving the current challenge to meet the energy needs globally. The substitution of petroleum-based fuels with bio-based fuels is the subject of thorough research establishing biofuel production as the future technology to achieve a sustainable, eco-friendly society with a zero waste approach.

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Soni, S.K., Sharma, A., Soni, R. (2018). Cellulases: Role in Lignocellulosic Biomass Utilization. In: Lübeck, M. (eds) Cellulases. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1796. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7877-9_1

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