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ReviewNature communications2025

Microbial consortia for the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals.

Derek T Troiano, Michael H-P Studer

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Review in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Derek T TroianoSchool of Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland.
Michael H-P StuderSchool of Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland. michael.studer1@bfh.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1083-0967

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) CRSII5_198750
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is currently significant interest in employing microbial communities for converting lignocellulosic feedstock into chemicals, fuels, and other products of use to humans. Both naturally occurring microbial communities, which can be prohibitively complex, and synthetic consortia, which are simple though can be unstable and unpredictable, have been employed to that end. Recent work has focused on developing tools for enabling wider application of microbial consortia in both lignocellulose valorization and bioprocesses in general. Together with improved methods of process monitoring and creative process design, newly developed biosynthetic tools may represent key facilitators for commercial realization of consortia-based lignocellulose conversion processes.

Indexed as

BiofuelsBiomassLigninMicrobial ConsortiaBacteriaFermentationBiofuelsLigninlignocellulose

Identifiers

PMID40691146
PMCPMC12280090

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