Table of Contents
Part I. Bioethanol
1. Production of Ethanol from Corn and Sugarcane, Nancy N. Nichols, Bruce S. Dien, Dale A. Monceaux, and Rodney J. Bothast
2. Lignocellulose Biomass Conversion to Ethanol by Saccharyomyces, Z. Lewis Liu, Badal C. Saha, and Patricia J. Slininger
3. Engineering the Pichia stipitis Genome for Fermentation of Hemicellulose Hydrolysates, Thomas W. Jeffries
4. Ethanol, Biomass, and Clostridia, Marco A. Báez-Vásquez and Arnold L. Demain
5. Consolidated Bioprocessing of Cellulosic Biomass to Ethanol Using Thermophilic Bacteria, Lee R. Lynd, Devin Currie, Nicky Ciazza, Chris Herring, and Nick Orem
6. Cellulosome-Enhanced Conversion of Biomass: On the Road to Bioethanol, Edward A. Bayer, Yuval Shoham, and Raphael Lamed
7. Cellulosomes from Mesophilic Bacteria, Roy H. Doi
8. Cohesin-Dockerin Interactions and Folding, J. H. David Wu, Michael Newcomb, and Kazuo Sakka
9. Contribution of Domain Interactions and Calcium Binding to the Stability of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes, Lars G. Ljungdahl, Irina A. Kataeva, and Vladimir N. Uversky
10. The Development of Ethanologenic Bacteria for Fuel Ethanol Production, Gregory W. Luli, Laura Jarbol, and Lonnie O. Ingram
11. Chrysosporium lucknowense Cellulases and Xylanases in Cellulosic Biofuels Production, Marco A. Báez-Vásquez and A. P. Sinitsyn
12. Production of Ethanol from Synthesis Gas, Ralph S. Tanner
Part II. Methane Production
13. Acetate-Based Methane Production, James G. Ferry
14. Energetic Aspects of Methanogenic Feeding Webs, Bernhard Schink
15. Optimizing Mixed-Culture Bioprocessing to Convert Wastes into Bioenergy, largus T. Angenent and Brian A. Wrenn
16. Biomethane from Biomass, Biowaste, and Biofuels, Ann C. Wilkie
17. Methane from Gas Hydrates, Bahman Tohidi and Ross Anderson
Part III. Methanol
18. Methanol from Biomass, Manfred Ringpfeil, Hans-Joachim Sander, Matthias Gerhardt, and Monika Wolf
19. Prospects for Methanol Production, Bakul C. Dave
Part IV. Hydrogen Production
20. Towards Hydrogenase Engineering for Hydrogen Production, Marc Rousset and Laurent Cournac
21. Nitrogenase-Catalyzed Hydrogen Production by Purple Nonsulfur Photosynthetic Bacteria, Caroline S. Harwood
22. Photosynthetic Water-Splitting for Hydrogen Production, Michael Seibert, Paul W. King, Matthew C. Posewitz, Anastasios Melis, and Maria L. Ghirardi
Part V. Fuel Cells: Electricity
23. Electricity Production with Electricigens, Derek R. Lovley and Kelly P. Nevin
24. Microbial Fuel Cells as an Engineered Ecosystem, Peter Aelterman, Korneel Rabaey, Liesje De Schamphelaire, Peter Clauwaert, Nico Boon, and Willy Verstraete
Part VI. Organic Solvents
25. Molecular Aspects of Butanol Fermentation, Carolis J. Paredes, Shawn W. Jones, Ryan S. Senger, Jacob R. Borden, Ryan Sillers, and Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis
26. Practical Aspects of Butanol Production, Thaddeus C. Ezeji and Hans P. Blaschek
27. Biorefineries for Solvents: The MixAlco Process, Cesar B. Granda and Mark T. Holtzapple
28. Increased Biofuel Production by Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum, Leighann Sullivan, Miles Scotcher, and George N. Bennett
Part VII. Microbial Oil Recovery
29. Emerging Oil Field Biotechnologies: Prevention of Oil Field Souring by Nitrate Injection, Gerrit Voordouw
30. Microbial Approaches for the Enhanced Recovery of Methane and Oil from Mature Reservoirs, Joseph M. Suflita and Michael J. McInerney
Part VIII. Exploiting Microbial Genomes for Energy Production
31. Genomic Prospecting for Microbial Biodiesel Production, Athanasios Lykidis and Natalia Ivanova