Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 BIOETHANOL -- 1 Production of Ethanol from Corn and Sugarcane -- 2 Lignocellulosic Biomass Conversion to Ethanol by Saccharomyces spp. -- 3 Engineering the Pichia stipitis Genome for Fermentation of Hemicellulose Hydrolysates -- 4 Ethanol, Biomass, and Clostridia -- 5 Consolidated Bioprocessing of Cellulosic Biomass to Ethanol Using Thermophilic Bacteria -- 6 Cellulosome-Enhanced Conversion of Biomass: On the Road to Bioethanol -- 7 Cellulosomes from Mesophilic Bacteria -- 8 Cohesin-Dockerin Interactions and Folding -- 9 Contribution of Domain Interactions and Calcium Binding to the Stability of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes -- 10 The Development of Ethanologenic Bacteria for Fuel Ethanol Production -- 11 Chrysosporium lucknowense Cellulases and Xylanases in Cellulosic Biofuels Production -- 12 Production of Ethanol from Synthesis Gas -- 2 METHANE PRODUCTION -- 13 Acetate-Based Methane Production -- 14 Energetic Aspects of Methanogenic Feeding Webs -- 15 Optimizing Mixed-Culture Bioprocessing To Convert Wastes into Bioenergy -- 16 Biomethane from Biomass, Biowaste, and Biofuels -- 17 Methane from Gas Hydrates -- 3 METHANOL -- 18 Methanol from Biomass -- 19 Prospects for Methanol Production -- 4 HYDROGEN PRODUCTION -- 20 Towards Hydrogenase Engineering for Hydrogen Production -- 21 Nitrogenase-Catalyzed Hydrogen Production by Purple Nonsulfur Photosynthetic Bacteria -- 22 Photosynthetic Water-Splitting for Hydrogen Production -- 5 FUEL CELLS: ELECTRICITY -- 23 Electricity Production with Electricigens -- 24 Microbial Fuel Cells as an Engineered Ecosystem -- 6 ORGANIC SOLVENTS -- 25 Molecular Aspects of Butanol Fermentation -- 26 Practical Aspects of Butanol Production -- 27 Biorefineries for Solvents: the MixAlco Process -- 28 Increased Biofuel Production by Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum.

7 MICROBIAL OIL RECOVERY -- 29 Emerging Oil Field Biotechnologies: Prevention of Oil Field Souring by Nitrate Injection -- 30 Microbial Approaches for the Enhanced Recovery of Methane and Oil from Mature Reservoirs -- 8 EXPLOITING MICROBIAL GENOMES FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION -- 31 Genomic Prospecting for Microbial Biodiesel Production -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.