Preface 1. Lignocellulose Biodegradation and Applications in Biotechnology, Badal C. Saha
2. Pretreatment for Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Used Newspaper, Sung Bae Kim and Jin Won Chun
3. Ethanol from Lignocellulosic Materials: Pretreatment, Acid and Enzymatic Hydrolyses, and Fermentation, Mohammad J. Taherzadeh and Claes Niklasson
4. Recent Progress in Transformation of Lignocellulosics to Fuels and Chemicals by Supercritical Water Technology, Katsunobu Ehara and Shiro Saka
5. Thermochemical Treatment, Separation, and Conversion of Corn Fiber to Ethanol, Charles Abbas, Kyle Beery, Eric Dennison, and Pam Corrington
6. Unconventional Relationships for Hemicellulose Hydrolysis and Subsequent Cellulose Digestion, Bin Yang, Matthew C. Gray, Chaogang Liu, Todd A. Lloyd, Suzanne L. Stuhler, Alvin O. Converse, and Charles E. Wyman
7. Laccase Modification of the Physical Properties of Bark and Pulp of Loblolly Pine and Spruce Pulp, William Kenealy, John Klungness, Mandla Tshabalala, Eric Horn, Masood Akhtar, Roland Gleisner, and Gisela Buschle-Diller
8. Degradation of Wood and Pulp by Three Fungi, Pycnoporus cinnabarinus, Trichonphyton rebrum LKY-7, and Trichophyton rebrum LSK-27, Xinglian Geng, Hyunchae Jung, and Kaichang Li
9. Productive Cellulase Adsorption on Cellulose, Hanshu Ding and Feng Xu
10. Cloning and Heterologous Expression of the Gene Encoding a Family 7 Glycosyl Hydrolase from Penicillium funiculosum, Yat-Chen Chou, William S. Adney, Stephen R. Decker, John O. Baker, Glenna Kunkel, David W. Templeton, and Michael E. Himmel
11. Effect of Rational Mutagenesis of Selected Cohesin Residues on the High-Affinity Cohesin-Dockerin Interaction, Tal Handelsan, Adva Mechaly, Yoav Barak, David Nakar, Raphael Lamed, Yuval Shoham, and Edward A. Bayer
12. Structure-Reactivity Studies of Trichoderma reesei Cellobiohydrolase Cel7A, Kathleen Piens, Jerry Stahlberg, Wim Nerinckx, Tuula T. Teeri, and Marc Claeyssens
13. Protein Engineering of Xylanases, Dawn E. Stephens, Kugen Permaul, Bernard A. Prior, and Suren Singh
14. Microbial a-Glucuronidases, B.J.M. de Wet and B.A. Prior
15. Microbial Feruloyl Esterases, Karl Rumbold, George Gubitz, and Bernard A. Prior
16. Cellobiose Dehydrogenase: An Extracellular Flavocytochrome from the Phytopathogenic Basidiomycete Sclerotium (Athelia) rolfsii, Dietmar Haltrich, Roland Ludwig, and Marcel Zamocky
17. Improvement of the Enzyme Character for Lignocellulose Degradation by Gene Manipulation, Kiyoshi Hayashi, Mamoru Nishimoto, Farooqahmed S. Kittur, and Motomitsu Kitaoka
18. Biotechnological Production of Xylitol from Lignocellulosic Materials, Maria G.A. Felipe
19. Biobleaching Efficiency of Aspergillus oryzae Xylanases Produced by Solid Substrate Fermentation, Judit Szendefy, George Szakacs, and Lew Christopher
20. Laccase: A Harbinger to Kraft Pulping, T.J. Dyer and A.J. Ragauskas
21. Biocatalytic Conversion of Renewable Feedstocks to Industrial Chemicals, Manoj Kumar, Jeff Pucci, Gopal Chotani, and Karl Sanford
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