Butanol production from lignocellulosic sugars by Clostridium beijerinckii in microbioreactors

Abstract Background Butanol (n-butanol) has been gaining attention as a renewable energy carrier and an alternative biofuel with superior properties to the most widely used ethanol. We performed 48 anaerobic fermentations simultaneously with glucose and xylose as representative lignocellulosic sugar...

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Main Authors: Cansu Birgen, Kristin F. Degnes, Sidsel Markussen, Alexander Wentzel, Håvard Sletta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Biotechnology for Biofuels
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-021-01886-1