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Open AccessAn environmentally friendly and productive process for bioethanol production from potato waste
China is the largest sweet potato producer and exporter in the world. Sweet potato residues (SPRs) separated after extracting starch account for more than 10 % of the total dry matter of sweet potatoes. In Chi...
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Open AccessMetabolic engineering to enhance biosynthesis of both docosahexaenoic acid and odd-chain fatty acids in Schizochytrium sp. S31
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, C22:6) and odd-chain fatty acids (OCFAs, C15:0 and C17:0) have attracted great interest, since they have been widely used in food and therapeutic industries, as well as chemical indu...
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Open AccessUse of fusion transcription factors to reprogram cellulase transcription and enable efficient cellulase production in Trichoderma reesei
Trichoderma reesei is widely used for cellulase production and accepted as an example for cellulase research. Cre1-mediated carbon catabolite repression (CCR) can significantly inhibit the transcription of cellul...
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Open AccessA novel fungal beta-propeller phytase from nematophagous Arthrobotrys oligospora: characterization and potential application in phosphorus and mineral release for feed processing
Phytases are widely utilized in feed industry to increase the utilization of phosphorus, minerals, and amino acids for improvement of animal and human nutrition. At present, all known β-propeller phytases (BPP...
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Open AccessRepeated fed-batch strategy and metabolomic analysis to achieve high docosahexaenoic acid productivity in Crypthecodinium cohnii
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is essential for human diet. However, high production cost of DHA using C. cohnii makes it currently less competitive commercially, which is mainly caused by low DHA productivity. In re...
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Correction to: Combined application of electronic nose analysis and back‑propagation neural network and random forest models for assessing yogurt flavor acceptability
The original version of the article unfortunately contained an error in one of the affiliations of the first author, Dr. Huaixiang Tian. The institution name was incorrectly published as ‘State Key Laboratory ...
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Open AccessMulti-step biosynthesis of the biodegradable polyester monomer 2-pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid from glucose
2-Pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC), a chemically stable pseudoaromatic dicarboxylic acid, represents a promising building block for the manufacture of biodegradable polyesters. Microbial production of PDC ha...