Efficient co-production of reducing sugars and xylooligosaccharides via clean hydrothermal pretreatment of rape straw.Hydrothermal treatment was applied to pretreat rape straw for the efficient co-production of reducing sugars and xylooligosaccharides.  It was observed that hydrothermal treatment using water as solvent and catalyst destructed the compact structure of rape straw and increased its enzymatic digestion efficiency from 26.4% to 92.0%.  Consequently, hydrothermal pretreatment played a vital role in the sustainable transformation of biomass to valuable biobased compounds, and had a wide range of application prospects in lignocellulosic biorefining.
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