“…Pre-treatments commonly examined have included water, various oils (palm, vegetable, coconut, castor, cottonseed, mustard, sunflower, groundnut, peanut, sesame) and chemical treatments (salt solutions, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium hydroxide, acetic acid, vinegar and urea solutions) with variable success (Saxena et al, 1989;Erskine et al, 1991b;Phirke and Bhole, 2000;Mangaraj et al, 2005;Anton et al, 2008a;Tiwari et al, 2008). More recently, researchers have found promise in hydrothermal pre-treatment (Tiwari et al, 2010) and pre-treating with various enzymes (Phirke and Bhole, 2000;Sreerama et al, 2009;Wood, 2010).…”