Sustainable Biorefinery for the Production of Plant-Based Products

Dear Colleagues,

Around the world, different measures are being taken to move from today's fossil-based economy to a more sustainable economy based on greater use of renewable feedstocks. In the coming decades, biorefinery and biomass will play a crucial role as we move towards a bio-based economy. Thus, the development of new sustainable plant-based value chains is therefore a highly interesting approach. Biorefining is defined as the sustainable processing of biomass into a range of marketable plant-based products. Similar to the value of refinery to fossil fuel resources, biorefinery is important in the utilization of biomass for the production of bioproducts.

The present Special Issue aims to collect and publish recent advances in the area of this following biorefinery pathway: the production of plant-based products derived from primary and secondary metabolites from sustainable resources (agricultural products, cellulosic biomass, aquatic and marine biomass; agri-food chain wastes and byproducts, microorganisms). We welcome all reviews and research articles dealing with the following subjects.

Dr. Maryline Abert-Vian
Guest Editor

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