Polysaccharide Degrading Biocatalysts

<p>1. Plant cell wall polysaccharides: Methodologies for compositional, structural, and physicochemical characterization<br>2. Genetic modification of plants to increase the saccharification of lignocellulose<br>3. The diversity of plant carbohydrate hydrolysis in nature and technology<br>4. State-of-the-art experimental and computational approaches to investigate structure, substrate recognition, and catalytic mechanism of enzymes<br>5. Pretreatments as a key for enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass<br>6. Importance of accessory enzymes in hemicellulose degradation<br>7. How ligninolytic enzymes can help in the degradation of biomass polysaccharides, cleavage, and catalytic mechanisms?<br>8. Biochemical and biotechnological aspects of microbial amylases<br>9. Hydrolysis of complex pectin structures: Biocatalysis and bioproducts<br>10. Macroalgal polysaccharides: Biocatalysts in biofuel/bioenergy production<br>11. Mathematical modeling of the enzymatic hydrolysis of polysaccharides: A primer<br>12. Polysaccharide deconstruction products: Production of bio-based building blocks<br>13. Polysaccharide degradation for oligosaccharide production with nutraceutical potential for the food industry<br>14. Carbohydrate-active enzymes in the production of lactose-derived tagatose<br>15. Immobilized biocatalysts for hydrolysis of polysaccharides<br>16. Carbohydrate-based economy: Perspectives and challenges</p>