Variation across a wheat genetic diversity panel for saccharification of hydrothermally pretreated straw.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wheat straw forms an important, reliable source of lignocellulosic biomass for use in second-generation ethanol production. However, there is limited understanding of the variation in quality of straw from current breeding cultivars, and studies on such variation have generally employed suboptimal pretreatments. There is also a degree of confusion regarding phenotypic characteristics relevant to optimising the enzymatic saccharification of cellulose after suitable pretreatments for biorefining compared with those which determine good ruminant digestibility. The aim of this study has been to (a) evaluate and compare the levels of glucose enzymatically released from straw obtained from 89 cultivars of winter wheat after optimised hydrothermal pretreatments and (b) identify

SUBMITTER: Collins SRA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5625621 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature