Pretreatment technologies are aimed to increase enzyme accessibility to biomass and yields
of fermentable sugars. In general, pretreatment methods fall into four different categories …

Biofuels provide a potential route to avoiding the global political instability and
environmental issues that arise from reliance on petroleum. Currently, most biofuel is in the …

The allotetraploid plant Nicotiana tabacum (common tobacco) is a major crop species and a
model organism, for which only very fragmented genomic sequences are currently available …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

2008 NOMINEE The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a
Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature From medicinal, industrial, and …

Plant molecular farming (PMF) is a new branch of plant biotechnology, where plants are
engineered to produce recombinant pharmaceutical and industrial proteins in large …

Plants offer an alternative to microbial fermentation and animal cell cultures for the
production of recombinant proteins. For protein pharmaceuticals, plant systems are …

Over the last several decades, plants have been developed as a platform for the production
of useful recombinant proteins due to a number of advantages, including rapid production …

Plant expression platforms are low-cost, scalable, safe, and environmentally friendly
systems for the production of recombinant proteins and bioactive metabolites. Rice (Oryza …

In recent years, the use of plants as bioreactors has emerged as an exciting area of research
and significant advances have created new opportunities. The driving forces behind the …