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Facing the challenge of sustainable bioenergy production: Could halophytes be part of the solution?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Biological Engineering, September 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#26 of 309)
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Title
Facing the challenge of sustainable bioenergy production: Could halophytes be part of the solution?
Published in
Journal of Biological Engineering, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13036-017-0069-0
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Authors

Ahmed Debez, Ikram Belghith, Jan Friesen, Carsten Montzka, Skander Elleuche

Abstract

Due to steadily growing population and economic transitions in the more populous countries, renewable sources of energy are needed more than ever. Plant biomass as a raw source of bioenergy and biofuel products may meet the demand for sustainable energy; however, such plants typically compete with food crops, which should not be wasted for producing energy and chemicals. Second-generation or advanced biofuels that are based on renewable and non-edible biomass resources are processed to produce cellulosic ethanol, which could be further used for producing energy, but also bio-based chemicals including higher alcohols, organic acids, and bulk chemicals. Halophytes do not compete with conventional crops for arable areas and freshwater resources, since they grow naturally in saline ecosystems, mostly in semi-arid and arid areas. Using halophytes for biofuel production may provide a mid-term economically feasible and environmentally sustainable solution to producing bioenergy, contributing, at the same time, to making saline areas - which have been considered unproductive for a long time - more valuable. This review emphasises on halophyte definition, global distribution, and environmental requirements. It also examines their enzymatic valorization, focusing on salt-tolerant enzymes from halophilic microbial species that may be deployed with greater advantage compared to their conventional mesophilic counterparts for faster degradation of halophyte biomass.

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Geographical breakdown

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Unknown 96 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 14%
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Other 5 5%
Other 17 18%
Unknown 27 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 23%
Environmental Science 8 8%
Engineering 7 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Chemical Engineering 6 6%
Other 18 19%
Unknown 29 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 January 2023.
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#1,933,842
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#26
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#36,680
of 324,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Biological Engineering
#1
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