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Biotechnology for Biofuels welcomes new joint Editor-in-Chief
Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal retired from her role as joint Editor-in-Chief for Biotechnology for Biofuels at the end of June. Huge thanks are due to Bärbel for being a champion of the journal, throughout the...
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EU blow to biodiesel
An EU policy U-turn was announced earlier this month, with draft legislation to impose limits across Europe on land-use for fuel crop production. Climate change Comissioner, Connie Hedegaard, proposes...
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Do you feel demonised?
The formal EU proposal and 5% cap on land use for biofuel production was announced this week – closely followed by a backlash from the biofuels industry and environmental groups alike....
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Seeding the next generation of fuel crops
Image credit: Matt Lavin For biofuels to become more sustainable, lignocellulosic biomass from trees, grasses and plant stems is an appealing alternative to resource-heavy energy crops such as canola...
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Algal biofuels? Think bigger
The production of biodiesel from single-celled microalgae has been receiving renewed research attention, as evidenced by a growth spurt in publications on microalgal biofuel this year. Meanwhile,...
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Special issue on pretreatment and fractionation of biomass for...
Biotechnology for Biofuels is pleased to announce a special issue from the NSERC Bioconversion Network – a collaboration of academic and industry leaders, aimed at developing bio-based chemical and...
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Cell wall degrading enzymes in a new class of their own
Carbohydrate active enzymes are typically found in fungi including white rot, brown rot and plant pathogenic fungi. These micro-organisms degrade the complex matrix of the plant cell wall containing...
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Biotechnology for Biofuels at 35th SBFC
Biotechnology for Biofuels will be exhibiting at 35th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals next week (29th April – 1st May). As a special conference of the Society for Industrial...
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News from 35th SBFC
Biotechnology for Biofuels attended the 35th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals (29th April – 1st May) hosted by the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB). Jim...
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Yeast factories: engineering bioethanol production through evolution
This post was originally featured on BioMed Central’s magazine Biome. In order to create truly sustainable biofuels, researchers are investigating methods to produce bioethanol from waste plant dry...
View ArticleMaintaining impact in 2013
Following last month’s publication of the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters), the Impact Factor for Biotechnology for Biofuels is 5.55, maintaining the journal’s position as the highest...
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A sorghum solution to meeting renewable fuel targets
This post was originally featured on BioMed Central’s magazine Biome. Grasses belonging to the genus Sorghum are grown on a large scale in the United States, mainly as animal feed. However, in light of...
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