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Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2017 Nov 20;118(5):2593–2635. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00421

Table 2.

Fungal Species of Industrial Relevance with a Focus on Cellulosic Biofuels

species	source	LPMO genes	details	example commercial products
Trichoderma reesei	canvas bivouac tents WWII¹³⁷	3	established enzyme production host¹³⁸	Spezyme CP (DuPont) Celluclast (Novozymes)
Aspergillus niger	soil	8	used for commercial citric acid production	E19 (Rohm and Haas) C6105, C1184 (Sigma-Aldrich) Rapidase Press (DSM)
Myceliophthora thermophila	compost piles¹³⁹	23–30	thermophilic, established enzyme production host^140,141	Fibrezyme G4 (DuPont)
Thermoascus aurantiacus	self-heating hay¹⁴²	3	thermophilic, proposed as enzyme production host¹⁴³
Rasamsonia emersonii (Talaromyces emersonii)	self-heating wood chip pile¹⁴⁴	2	thermophilic	Filtrase NL (DSM)