title: Bamboo: a new source of carbohydrate for biorefinery.
abstract: Bamboo is perennial woody grass, which distributed widely in the world and belonged to the Gramineae family and Bambuseae subfamily. It may be consider as a candidate lignocellulosic substrate for bio-ethanol production for its environmental benefits and higher annual biomass yield. The conversion of bamboo into bio-ethanol, bio-methane, natural food, flavonoids, and functional xylo-oligosaccharides production were reviewed in this paper. Future prospects for research include pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation will also be performed to improve the whole process of ethanol production more economical. And revealing the molecular regulation mechanism of the fast growth of bamboo will provide chance for improving bamboo or other energy plants biomass yield through genetic engineering.
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China; Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu 610041, PR China. Electronic address: hemingxiong@caas.cn.
authors.forename: Ming-xiong
authors.initials: MX
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China; Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 10081, PR China.
authors.forename: Jing-li
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China; Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 10081, PR China.
authors.forename: Zong-xia
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Shui
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Qi-li
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Fu-rong
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China; Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Qi-chun
authors.initials: QC
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Li-chun
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Wen-guo
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiao-yu
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China; Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu 610041, PR China. Electronic address: huguoquan1@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Guo quan
authors.initials: Gq
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels / Q000032:analysis; D018533:Biomass; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry; D000431:Ethanol / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D005419:Flavonoids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D005524:Food Technology / Q000379:methods; D005965:Glucuronates / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008031:Lignin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008697:Methane / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D031787:Sasa / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D002241:Carbohydrates; D005419:Flavonoids; D005965:Glucuronates; D009844:Oligosaccharides; C570991:xylooligosaccharide; C036909:lignocellulose; D000431:Ethanol; D008031:Lignin; D008697:Methane
keywords: 44257868); 44257938; Bamboo; Bio-ethanol, Bio-methane; Ethanol (PubChem CID: 702); Flavonoid (PubChem CID: 5317287; Flavonoids; Furfural (PubChem CID: 7362); Lignocellulosic; Methane (PubChem CID: 297); Value-added product; Xylan (PubChem CID: 50909243); Xylitol (PubChem CID: 6912); Xylo-oligosaccharides.; Xylose (PubChem CID: 95259)