University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Food, feed and fuel from the biosphere--an ever increasing demand / Ralph P. Overend -- Crop residues / M. Ishaque, D.S. Chahal -- Availability of forest biomass / J.K. Rawat, J.C. Nautiyal -- Animal manures / L.W. Smith -- Chemical and structural features of lignocelluloses / D.S. Chahal -- Pretreatments of lignocelluloses / D.S. Chahal -- Pretreatments of lignocelluloses irradiation / Kenneth C. Ehrlich, Youn W. Han -- Acid pretreatment in a flow reactor of lignocelluloses for enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis / Hans E. Grethlein, Alvin O. Converse -- Microbial biomass protein production from casava with thermotolerant fungi / K.F. Gregory -- The inra-dijon process for the single-cell protein production on sugar-beet pulp with trichoderma viride TS / A. Durand, W. Grajek, P. Gervais -- Modern and traditional aspects of solid state fermentation / Maurice Raimbault, Gustavo Viniegra-Gonzalez -- The pekilo protein process / Kaj Forss, Kirsti Jokinen -- Lignocelluloses and manures / D.S. Chahal.

Nutritional value of fungal biomass products as animal feedstuff / E.R. Chavez, S.P. Touchburn -- Bioconversion of biomass into methane / L. Van den Berg -- Continuous acid hydrolysis of lignocelluloses for production of xylose, glucose and furfural / Hans E. Grethlein, Alvin O. Converse -- Cellulase production and hydrolysis of lignocelluloses / D.S. Chahal, P.S. Chahal, Gerald Andre -- Conversion of cellulose to chemicals including ethanol / George H. Emert -- Ethanol production from cellulose by rumen bacteria / Shoichi Shimizu, Kunio Ohmiya -- Ethanol production by zymomonas mobilis / Peter L. Rogers -- Conversion of biomass into fuels--ethanol / t. P. Lyons, D.R. Kelsall -- Methanol production from biomass / R.J. Philp, R.P. Overend -- Conversion of hemicelluloses into ehtanol / Henry Schneider -- Utilisation of lignin by-products from ethanol fuel processes / D.W. Sundstrom, H.E. Klei.