Fig. 1

An illustration of the major processes and biological steps in utilization and conversion of plant biomass materials and dietary fibre in providing renewable functional ingredients to animal feed industry and human food industry as well as renewable lignocellulosic biofuels and biomaterials for a sustainable global bio-economy with an emphasis on the essential roles of the plant biomass and dietary fibre degradation microbial cellulases as novel industrial enzymes with adaption from Fan et al. [2]