An investigation of cellulase activity assays
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"The economy of the world has been seriously affected by increased demands for energy and food. The price of gasoline gradually has gone up while more children have died in poor countries before the age of five from malnutrition. Ways must be found to solve these problems for the growing world population. Cellulose is the major organic material in the world with an annual production of 10^11 tons/year 1n the forms of cotton, lumber, pulp wood, etc., which could be converted Into energy and food. Numerous conventional processes have been proposed to obtain other chemicals from cellulosics such as gasification at high temperature to form synthesis gas, liquefaction under high pressure to produce oil, and pyrolysis to charcoal, gas and oil. Several unconventional processes have been developed for the biological conversion of cellulose to useful nutritional products by the hydrolysis of cellulose to glucose. Glucose can be used as food by man and animals, converted microbially into single-cell protein, or fermented to ethanol for use as a fuel."--Introduction.
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