Bamboo: a new source of carbohydrate for biorefinery

Ming-xiong He; Jing-li Wang; Han Qin; Zong-xia Shui; Qi-li Zhu; Bo Wu; Fu-rong Tan; Ke Pan; Qi-chun Hu; Li-chun Dai; Wen-guo Wang; Xiao-yu Tang; Guo quan Hu

doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2014.05.025

Bamboo: a new source of carbohydrate for biorefinery

Carbohydr Polym. 2014 Oct 13:111:645-54. doi: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2014.05.025. Epub 2014 May 23.

Authors

Ming-xiong He¹, Jing-li Wang², Han Qin³, Zong-xia Shui², Qi-li Zhu³, Bo Wu³, Fu-rong Tan³, Ke Pan³, Qi-chun Hu⁴, Li-chun Dai³, Wen-guo Wang³, Xiao-yu Tang³, Guo quan Hu⁵

Affiliations

¹ 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.
² 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.
³ Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, Biomass Energy Technology Research Centre, Section 4-13, Renming Nanlu, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
⁴ 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.
⁵ 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.

PMID: 25037399
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2014.05.025

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.

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).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Biofuels* / analysis
Biomass
Biotechnology* / methods
Carbohydrate Metabolism*
Carbohydrates / chemistry
Ethanol / chemistry
Ethanol / metabolism
Flavonoids / chemistry
Flavonoids / metabolism
Food Technology* / methods
Glucuronates / chemistry
Glucuronates / metabolism
Lignin / chemistry
Lignin / metabolism
Methane / chemistry
Methane / metabolism
Oligosaccharides / chemistry
Oligosaccharides / metabolism
Sasa / chemistry
Sasa / metabolism*

Substances

Biofuels
Carbohydrates
Flavonoids
Glucuronates
Oligosaccharides
xylooligosaccharide
lignocellulose
Ethanol
Lignin
Methane