title: Challenges in ethanol production with Fusarium oxysporum through consolidated bioprocessing.
abstract: Fusarium oxysporum has been reported as being able to both produce the enzymes necessary to degrade lignocellulosic biomass to sugars and also ferment the monosaccharides to ethanol under anaerobic or microaerobic conditions. However, in order to become an economically feasible alternative to other ethanol-producing microorganisms, a better understanding of its physiology, metabolic pathways, and bottlenecks is required, together with an improvement in its efficiency and robustness. In this report, we describe the challenges for the future and give additional justification for our recent publication.
authors.affiliation: a Industrial Biotechnology; Chemical and Biological Engineering ; Chalmers University of Technology ; Gothenburg , Sweden.
authors.forename: George E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Anasontzis
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Christakopoulos
mesh_terms: D018533:Biomass; D000431:Ethanol / Q000378:metabolism*; D005285:Fermentation; D005670:Fusarium / Q000378:metabolism*; D008031:Lignin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C036909:lignocellulose; D000431:Ethanol; D008031:Lignin
keywords: Fusarium oxysporum; biomass; ethanol; lignocellulose