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Review3 Biotech2015

Lignocellulosic agriculture wastes as biomass feedstocks for second-generation bioethanol production: concepts and recent developments.

Jitendra Kumar Saini, Reetu Saini, Lakshmi Tewari

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Review in 3 Biotech, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 137 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

137 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Screening and ARTP mutagenesis-based breeding of high-cellulase-producing strains.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jitendra Kumar SainiDepartment of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, 263145, India. me_jk@rediffmail.com.
Reetu SainiDepartment of Microbiology, M.S. Garg P.G. College, Laksar, Haridwar, 247663, India.
Lakshmi TewariDepartment of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, 263145, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Production of liquid biofuels, such as bioethanol, has been advocated as a sustainable option to tackle the problems associated with rising crude oil prices, global warming and diminishing petroleum reserves. Second-generation bioethanol is produced from lignocellulosic feedstock by its saccharification, followed by microbial fermentation and product recovery. Agricultural residues generated as wastes during or after processing of agricultural crops are one of such renewable and lignocellulose-rich biomass resources available in huge amounts for bioethanol production. These agricultural residues are converted to bioethanol in several steps which are described here. This review enlightens various steps involved in production of the second-generation bioethanol. Mechanisms and recent advances in pretreatment, cellulases production and second-generation ethanol production processes are described here.

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Agricultural wastesBioethanolCellulaseLignocelluloseResidues

Identifiers

PMID28324547
PMCPMC4522714

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