OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biotechnology for Biofuels is 24. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Waste biorefinery towards a sustainable circular bioeconomy: a solution to global issues	221
Recent advances in the valorization of plant biomass	164
Depolymerization and conversion of lignin to value-added bioproducts by microbial and enzymatic catalysis	152
Bioprospecting of microbial strains for biofuel production: metabolic engineering, applications, and challenges	134
Recent advances in understanding the effects of lignin structural characteristics on enzymatic hydrolysis	125
Optimization of biogas yield from lignocellulosic materials with different pretreatment methods: a review	104
The current status, challenges and prospects of using biomass energy in Ethiopia	90
Understanding the effects of different residual lignin fractions in acid-pretreated bamboo residues on its enzymatic digestibility	79
Approaches to genetic tool development for rapid domestication of non-model microorganisms	78
An overview to process design, simulation and sustainability evaluation of biodiesel production	75
Unraveling the roles of the reductant and free copper ions in LPMO kinetics	70
Membranes for bioethanol production by pervaporation	62
Coupling azo dye degradation and biodiesel production by manganese-dependent peroxidase producing oleaginous yeasts isolated from wood-feeding termite gut symbionts	62
Towards sustainable production and utilization of plant-biomass-based nanomaterials: a review and analysis of recent developments	59
Identification of the major fermentation inhibitors of recombinant 2G yeasts in diverse lignocellulose hydrolysates	57
Bacterial alginate metabolism: an important pathway for bioconversion of brown algae	52
Removal of fermentation inhibitors from pre-hydrolysis liquor using polystyrene divinylbenzene resin	50
Investigation of carbon and energy metabolic mechanism of mixotrophy in Chromochloris zofingiensis	49
Consolidated bioprocessing of cellulose to itaconic acid by a co-culture of Trichoderma reesei and Ustilago maydis	48
Enzymatic degradation of maize shoots: monitoring of chemical and physical changes reveals different saccharification behaviors	44
Metabolic engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for thermoresistance and enhanced erythritol productivity	44
Current and future advances in fluorescence-based visualization of plant cell wall components and cell wall biosynthetic machineries	43
Microbial lipid production from crude glycerol and hemicellulosic hydrolysate with oleaginous yeasts	43
A novel recyclable furoic acid-assisted pretreatment for sugarcane bagasse biorefinery in co-production of xylooligosaccharides and glucose	42
Oleaginous yeasts respond differently to carbon sources present in lignocellulose hydrolysate	42

Production of the biocommodities butanol and acetone from methanol with fluorescent FAST-tagged proteins using metabolically engineered strains of Eubacterium limosum	41
Techno-economic evaluation of microalgae high-density liquid fuel production at 12 international locations	40
Enhanced xylitol production using non-detoxified xylose rich pre-hydrolysate from sugarcane bagasse by newly isolated Pichia fermentans	40
Harnessing microbial wealth for lignocellulose biomass valorization through secretomics: a review	40
Enhanced lignin biodegradation by consortium of white rot fungi: microbial synergistic effects and product mapping	40
Further engineering of R. toruloides for the production of terpenes from lignocellulosic biomass	38
Organosolv pretreatment assisted by carbocation scavenger to mitigate surface barrier effect of lignin for improving biomass saccharification and utilization	37
Evaluation of acidogenesis products’ effect on biogas production performed with metagenomics and isotopic approaches	37
CRISPR-mediated multigene integration enables Shikimate pathway refactoring for enhanced 2-phenylethanol biosynthesis in Kluyveromyces marxianus	36
Enhancement of polyhydroxyalkanoate production by co-feeding lignin derivatives with glycerol in Pseudomonas putida KT2440	36
The oleaginous astaxanthin-producing alga Chromochloris zofingiensis: potential from production to an emerging model for studying lipid metabolism and carotenogenesis	35
LACCASE14 is required for the deposition of guaiacyl lignin and affects cell wall digestibility in poplar	35
ARTP/EMS-combined multiple mutagenesis efficiently improved production of raw starch-degrading enzymes in Penicillium oxalicum and characterization of the enzyme-hyperproducing mutant	34
Solid-state NMR of unlabeled plant cell walls: high-resolution structural analysis without isotopic enrichment	34
Optimisation of microalgal cultivation via nutrient-enhanced strategies: the biorefinery paradigm	34
Disulfide bond engineering of AppA phytase for increased thermostability requires co-expression of protein disulfide isomerase in Pichia pastoris	33
Extraction of sugarcane bagasse arabinoxylan, integrated with enzymatic production of xylo-oligosaccharides and separation of cellulose	32
Magnetic COFs as satisfactory support for lipase immobilization and recovery to effectively achieve the production of biodiesel by maintenance of enzyme activity	32
Single-step ethanol production from raw cassava starch using a combination of raw starch hydrolysis and fermentation, scale-up from 5-L laboratory and 200-L pilot plant to 3000-L industrial fermenters	32
Tailoring renewable materials via plant biotechnology	31
Extracellular riboflavin induces anaerobic biofilm formation in Shewanella oneidensis	31
Efficient lactic acid production from dilute acid-pretreated lignocellulosic biomass by a synthetic consortium of engineered Pseudomonas putida and Bacillus coagulans	30
Improvement of thermostability and catalytic efficiency of glucoamylase from Talaromyces leycettanus JCM12802 via site-directed mutagenesis to enhance industrial saccharification applications	29
Quantitative proteomic comparison of salt stress in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and the snow alga Chlamydomonas nivalis reveals mechanisms for salt-triggered fatty acid accumulation via reallocation of	28
A comprehensive review on microbial production of 1,2-propanediol: micro-organisms, metabolic pathways, and metabolic engineering	28
Biodiesel production from alternative raw materials using a heterogeneous low ordered biosilicified enzyme as biocatalyst	28
AP2/ERF and R2R3-MYB family transcription factors: potential associations between temperature stress and lipid metabolism in Auxenochlorella protothecoides	28
Characterization of an AA9 LPMO from Thielavia australiensis, TausLPMO9B, under industrially relevant lignocellulose saccharification conditions	27
Engineering oleaginous yeast Rhodotorula toruloides for overproduction of fatty acid ethyl esters	27
Effective lipid extraction from undewatered microalgae liquid using subcritical dimethyl ether	26
Metabolic engineering of the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica PO1f for production of erythritol from glycerol	26
Biomass, lipid accumulation kinetics, and the transcriptome of heterotrophic oleaginous microalga Tetradesmus bernardii under different carbon and nitrogen sources	26
Transcriptome-based analysis of the effects of salicylic acid and high light on lipid and astaxanthin accumulation in Haematococcus pluvialis	26
A thermostable bacterial lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase with high operational stability in a wide temperature range	26
Co‑cultivation of the anaerobic fungus Caecomyces churrovis with Methanobacterium bryantii enhances transcription of carbohydrate binding modules, dockerins, and pyruvate formate lyases on specific su	26
Novel insights in dimethyl carbonate-based extraction of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)	26
Metabolic engineering of Aspergillus niger via ribonucleoprotein-based CRISPR–Cas9 system for succinic acid production from renewable biomass	25
Structure-guided steric hindrance engineering of Bacillus badius phenylalanine dehydrogenase for efficient l-homophenylalanine synthesis	25
Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of ethanol produced via fermentation of sugars derived from shrub willow (Salix ssp.) hot water extraction in the Northeast United States	25
Rational engineering of xylanase hyper-producing system in Trichoderma reesei for efficient biomass degradation	25
Genome-wide association study and transcriptome analysis reveal key genes affecting root growth dynamics in rapeseed	25
Wood-feeding termite gut symbionts as an obscure yet promising source of novel manganese peroxidase-producing oleaginous yeasts intended for azo dye decolorization and biodiesel production	25
Analysis of the lipid extraction performance in a cascade process for Scenedesmus almeriensis biorefinery	25
Genome-scale metabolic modeling underscores the potential of Cutaneotrichosporon oleaginosus ATCC 20509 as a cell factory for biofuel production	24
Engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica transporters for high-efficient production of biobased succinic acid from glucose	24
Hybrid promoter engineering strategies in Yarrowia lipolytica: isoamyl alcohol production as a test study	24
ATP and NADPH engineering of Escherichia coli to improve the production of 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid using CRISPRi	24
Rational engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae towards improved tolerance to multiple inhibitors in lignocellulose fermentations	24
Engineering Rhodosporidium toruloides for limonene production	24