Table 1.

Bioethanol production from agricultural lignocelluosic waste.

Substrate used for ethanol production	Microorganisms used	Method/treatments	Ethanol yield	Reference
Banana pseudo stem	A. ellipticus	SSF (cellulases from fungi and fermentation by yeast cells)	17.1 g/L	Current work
	A. fumigatus
	S. cerevisiae NCIM 3570
Liquefied cassava starch	S. diastaticus	Monoculture or mixed culture fermentation with yeasts	0.24 – 0.34 g/g	Amutha and Gunasekaran (2000)
	Zymomonas mobilis
Sugar cane leaves	Trichoderma reesei	SSF (cellulases from fungi and fermentation by yeast cells)	20–35 g/L	Hari Krishna et al. (2001)
	S. cerevisiae NRRL-Y-132
	Kluyveromyces fragilis NCIM 3358
Alfalfa fibers	Candida shehatae FPL-702	Separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF) and SSF with and without liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment	5 – 6.4 g/L and 9.6 – 18 g/L	Sreenath et al. (2001)
Banana leaves	Clostridium thermocellum CT2	Co-culture fermentation (under anaerobic conditions)	22 g/L	Reddy et al. (2010)
	C. thermosaccharolyticum HG8