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Sugarcane Bagasse

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Biotechnology for Agro-Industrial Residues Utilisation

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Advances in industrial biotechnology offer potential opportunities for economic utilization of agro-industrial residues. Sugarcane bagasse is the major by-product of the sugar cane industry. It contains about 50% cellulose, 25% hemicellulose and 25% lignin. Due to its abundant availability, it can serve as an ideal substrate for microbial processes for the production of value-added products such as protein enriched animal feed, enzymes, amino acids, organic acids and compounds of pharmaceutical importance etc. Since untreated bagasse is degraded very slowly by micro-organisms, a pre-treatment step may be useful for improved substrate utilization. This chapter reviews the developments on processes and products developed for the value-addition of sugarcane bagasse through the biotechnological means and it also discuss about various pre-treatment methods for efficient utilization of this substrate for the production of fermentable sugars.

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Parameswaran, B. (2009). Sugarcane Bagasse. In: Singh nee’ Nigam, P., Pandey, A. (eds) Biotechnology for Agro-Industrial Residues Utilisation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9942-7_12

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