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showing the way for the integral exploitation of plant biomass. Moreover, the robustness of
microorganisms is no longer considered as a black box belonging to industrial processes.
Insight on the biochemical mechanisms and the genetic individualities of the robust strains is
increasing, as wide genome approaches become accessible to more and more scientists
worldwide.

NOTE

* These authors contributed equally to this work

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