Bioenergy

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