ReviewAntonie van Leeuwenhoek2026
From traditional retting to precision bioprocessing: microbial ecology, enzymatic selectivity, and systems biology of jute retting.
Review in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Jute is one of the world's most important lignocellulosic fibre crops, yet its commercial value remains highly dependent on retting, a biologically mediated fibre extraction process still largely governed by empirical practices and variable environmental conditions. Recent advances in microbial ecology, enzymology, molecular biology, and bioprocess engineering have transformed retting from a traditional post-harvest operation into a controllable lignocellulosic bioconversion process. This review synthesizes current understanding of the structural organization of jute bast fibres, selective degradation of plant cell-wall polymers, microbial succession, extracellular enzyme networks, and physicochemical factors regulating fibre liberation. It highlights the coordinated interactions among cell-wall architecture, microbial communities, enzyme specificity, and environmental conditions that collectively determine retting efficiency and fibre quality. Emerging precision retting strategies, including defined microbial consortia, enzyme-assisted retting, ribbon retting, controlled processing systems, and water-efficient technologies, are critically evaluated for their potential to improve process reproducibility, fibre quality, and environmental sustainability. The review also examines metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, and artificial intelligence as enabling technologies for microbiome-guided process monitoring, predictive modelling, and digital decision support. Furthermore, this review discusses the integration of precision retting within circular bioeconomy frameworks through resource recovery, pollution mitigation, climate-resilient processing, and lignocellulosic biorefineries. Key knowledge gaps, including limited understanding of microbial interactions, lack of standardized microbial consortia, insufficient process-monitoring tools, fragmented multi-omics datasets, and challenges in industrial scale-up, are identified. Overall, this review presents a systems-level framework for advancing jute retting toward standardized, predictive, and environmentally sustainable precision bioprocessing.
Indexed as
Identifiers
42667435What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.