The book describes how plant biomass can be used as renewable feedstock for producing and
further processing various products. Particular attention is given to microbial processes both
for the digestion of biomass and the synthesis of platform chemicals biofuels and secondary
products. Topics covered include: new metabolic pathways of microbes living on green plants and
in silage using lignocellulosic hydrolysates for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates
fungi such as Penicillium as host for the production of heterologous proteins and enzymes
bioconversion of sugar hydrolysates into lipids production of succinic acid lactones lactic
acid and organic lactates using different bacteria species cellulose hydrolyzing bacteria in
the production of biogas from plant biomass and isoprenoid compounds in engineered microbes.
