Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29213308›Full record

ArticleBiotechnology for biofuels2017

The effect of liquid hot water pretreatment on the chemical-structural alteration and the reduced recalcitrance in poplar.

Mi Li, Shilin Cao, Xianzhi Meng, Michael Studer, Charles E Wyman, Arthur J Ragauskas, Yunqiao Pu

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Biotechnology for biofuels, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 127 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Article
  9. Immobilization and Application of the Recombinant Xylanase GH10 ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022
    Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Mi Li *BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), Oak Ridge, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7523-1266
Shilin Cao *School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA.
Xianzhi MengDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA.
Michael StuderBioEnergy Science Center (BESC), Oak Ridge, USA.
Charles E WymanBioEnergy Science Center (BESC), Oak Ridge, USA.
Arthur J RagauskasBioEnergy Science Center (BESC), Oak Ridge, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3536-554X
Yunqiao PuBioEnergy Science Center (BESC), Oak Ridge, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2554-1447
Oak Ridge National Laboratory · USUniversity of California, Riverside · USGeorgia Institute of Technology · USUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHydrothermal pretreatment using liquid hot water (LHW) is capable of substantially reducing the cell wall recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass. It enhances the saccharification of polysaccharides, particularly cellulose, into glucose with relatively low capital required. Due to the close association with biomass recalcitrance, the structural change of the components of lignocellulosic materials during the pretreatment is crucial to understand pretreatment chemistry and advance the bio-economy. Although the LHW pretreatment has been extensively applied and studied, the molecular structural alteration during pretreatment and its significance to reduced recalcitrance have not been well understood.

resultsWe investigated the effects of LHW pretreatment with different severity factors (log

conclusionsThis study revealed that the solubilization of xylan, the reduction of hemicellulose molecular weights and cellulose degree of polymerization, and the cleavage of alkyl-aryl ether bonds in lignin resulted from LHW pretreatment are critical factors associated with reduced cell wall recalcitrance. The chemical-structural changes of the three major components, cellulose, lignin, and hemicellulose, during LHW pretreatment provide useful and fundamental information of factors governing feedstock recalcitrance during hydrothermal pretreatment.

Indexed as

Biomass recalcitranceBiopolymers structuresLiquid hot water pretreatmentPoplar

Identifiers

PMID29213308
PMCPMC5707831
OpenAlexW2765128165

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.