a Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan b Division of Clinical Research, National Hospital Organization, Hizen Psychiatric Center, 160 Mitsu, Yoshinogari-cho, Kanzaki-gun, Saga 842-0192, Japan c Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, 36-1 Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Jap...

Two-stage treatments of sugarcane bagasse with steam and alkaline peroxide were performed and the hemicelluloses extracted were characterized by chemical methods, SEC-MALLS, FT-IR and 13C NMR. The hemicellulose from steam pretreatment was found to contain galacto-arabinoxylans while alkaline peroxide extraction yielded predominately linear arabinoxylans.The present studyshowed a promising seque...

Global energy security relies on fossil-based resources that are affiliated with the source of global warming, apart from punches political and economic instabilities. Biomass is a promising alternative carbonaceous feedstock used for production clean could have potential to substitute fossil fuels. This study aims present conceptual design considers criteria identify upper theoretical limits b...

Vermicompost produced from sugarcane bagasse (SBV) or sawdust (S) were substituted at a range of different concentration in soilless bedding plant container medium, as a peat: vermiculite: perlite (6:3:1), to evaluate their effects on the growth of Dieffenbachia amoena in the greenhouse. Dieffenbachia amoena was grown in container medium PE: VE: P (6:3:1), in that peat substituted with 0%, 10%,...

Background Trichoderma reesei is considered a candidate fungal enzyme producer for the economic saccharification of cellulosic biomass. However, performance of the saccharifying enzymes produced by T. reesei is insufficient. Therefore, many attempts have been made to improve its performance by heterologous protein expression. In this study, to increase the conversion efficiency of alkaline-pret...

BACKGROUND Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass is a prerequisite for effective saccharification to produce fermentable sugars. In this study, "green" solvent systems based on acidified mixtures of glycerol carbonate (GC) and glycerol were used to treat sugarcane bagasse and the roles of each solvent in deconstructing biomass were determined. RESULTS Pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse at 90...

We tested 151 strains representing the genera Nocarclia and Gordma, the taxon ‘ Mycobacterium ’ rhodochrous and a collection of strains isolated from bagasse for their in vitro susceptibility to 52 antimicrobial agents by using the impregnated filter-paper disc method. The ‘ bagasse’ isolates were resistant to most of the antimicrobial agents but the nocardiae, gordonae and rhodochrous groups f...

The remarks and findings in this paper are limited to the crusher only. The purpose of the investigation was to attempt to establish an optimum ratio between the calculated bagasse state at the work opening of the discharge of the mill and the actual bagasse state as analysed by laboratory methods. As the observations were made on a full-scale milling plant, very little experimentation could be...

Microbial biomass having 46% crude protein content and enriched with essential amino acids as well as extracellular xylanase activity (100-150 IU/ml) was produced by an efficient fungal strain, Penicillium janthinellum (NCIM St-F-3b). Optimization studies for maximum xylanase and biomass production showed that the fungus required a simple medium containing bagasse hemicellulose as carbon source...