NOVELTY - An isolated, synthetic or recombinant nucleic acid (NA) (I) that encodes polypeptides having lignocellulosic activity, is new.    USE - The NA is used to form expression cassette, cloning vehicle or vector useful in producing transgenic non-human animals; transgenic plants (including monocot or dicot plants including corn, sugarcane, rice, wheat, barley, switchgrass or Miscanthus or oilseed crop, soy, canola, rapeseed, flax, cotton, palm oil, sugar beet, peanut, tree, poplar or lupine) and transgenic seeds selected from e.g. Anacardium, Arachis, Asparagus, Brassica, Persea, Pisum, Raphanus, Zea. The polypeptide is used for conditioning dough for use in a dough or bread product; in beverages; food, feed, food or feed supplement; edible enzyme delivery matrix or pellet for delivering lignocellulosic enzyme supplement to an animal; in a lignocellulosic composition for reducing amount of cellulose in a wood, wood pulp, wood paste or wood products; detergents; pharmaceutical compositions; in fuel (e.g. bioethanol, bioethanol, biopropanol and/or, bio-butanol; in dairy products; in textile or fabrics; for treating animal or liquid animal waste products to form processed waste product; in disinfectants; in bio-detoxifying or biodefence agent; for processing biomass material derived from agricultural crop, byproduct of a food or a feed production, lignocellulosic waste; a plant residue or a waste paper or waste paper product (all claimed).    ADVANTAGE - The peptides are highly active and have increased lignocellulosic activity, e.g., increased catalytic rate that include glycosyl hydrolase, endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, beta -glucosidase activity. The biomass to biofuel conversion using the enzymes have decreased costs. The enzymes have an increased catalytic rate to improve the process of substrate (e.g., a lignocellulosic residue, cellulose, bagasse) hydrolysis. This increased efficiency in catalytic rate leads to an increased efficiency in producing sugars or polysaccharides, which can be useful in industrial, agricultural or medical applications, e.g., to make a biofuel or an alcohol such as ethanol, propanol. The lignocellulosic activity of the resulting NA or peptide is thermostable or thermotolerant i.e. the activity is stable or tolerant under conditions (greater than about 37 to 95 (preferably 99) degrees C at a pH of about 6.5 to greater than or equal to 11).    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - An isolated, synthetic or recombinant NA (I) that encodes polypeptides having lignocellulosic activity (LA), is new. (I) comprises e.g. (a) a NA sequence (NAS) which is at least 50 (preferably 98, especially 100)% identical to polynucleotide sequences selected from a group of 270 sequences as given in the specification e.g. odd number sequences from (SEQ ID NO:1) to (SEQ ID NO:370) (SEQ ID NO: not defined) over a region of at least about 20 (preferably 700, especially greater than or equal to 1150) residues, or the full length of a cDNA, transcript (mRNA) or gene, where the NA encodes a polypeptide (P1) having a cellulosic activity, or encodes a polypeptide capable of generating an antibody that specifically binds to a group of 341 polypeptide sequences as given in the specification e.g. even number sequences from (SEQ ID NO:2) to (SEQ ID NO:368) (SEQ ID NO: not defined) or their fragments; (b) NAS that hybridizes under stringent conditions to NA of (a); (c) NAS encoding a polypeptide (P1); (d) NAS of (a)/(b)/(c) and encoding a polypeptide having one conservative amino acid substitution and retaining its LA; (e) NAS of (a) to (d) encoding a polypeptide having LA but lacking a signal sequence, a prepro domain, a dockerin domain (DD), and/or a carbohydrate binding module (CBM); INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are included for the following    (1) a NA probe for identifying (I);    (2) amplification primer pair (AP1) for amplifying (I);    (3) an isolated, recombinant lignocellulosic enzyme (LE) encoding (I);    (4) an isolated synthetic or recombinant LE encoded by (I);    (5) a method of amplifying (I);    (6) an expression cassette comprising (I);    (7) a vector comprising (I) or the expression cassette;    (8) a cloning vehicle (I) comprising the expression cassette and optionally e.g. viral vector, plasmid;    (9) a transformed infected host cell or a transgenic non-human animal or a transgenic plant or seed comprising (I) or the expression cassette;    (10) an antisense oligonucleotide (II) comprising NAS complementary or capable of hybridizing to (I);    (11) inhibiting translation of enzyme message in a cell involving administering (II);    (12) a double-stranded RNA molecule (III) comprising (I);    (13) inhibiting expression of LE or mRNA in a cell involving administering (III);    (14) new isolated polypeptide (P1) encoded by (I);    (15) a heterodimer comprising (P1);    (16) a homodimer comprising (P1) or LE;    (17) an immobilized (I), (P1) or LE or its array;    (18) an isolated , synthetic or immobilized antibody (AB) that binds to (P1);    (19) a hybridoma comprising (AB);    (20) isolating and/or identifying (P1);    (21) making (AB);    (22) producing recombinant polypeptide;    (23) screening compound that binds to (P1);    (24) identifying modulator of lignocellulosic activity;    (25) a computer system or a computer readable medium with a storage device containing sequence data of (P1) or (I);    (26) identifying a feature in a sequence or comparing two sequences;    (27) isolating or recovering NA or its variant encoding (P1);    (28) modifying codons in NA encoding (P1) or LE;    (29) producing library of NA encoding modified LE or substrate binding sites;    (30) making small molecules from LE;    (31) determining functional fragment of LE;    (32) whole cell engineering of new/modified phenotypes;    (33) an isolated synthetic or recombinant signal sequence (s1);    (34) chimeric polypeptide comprising (s1);    (35) isolated synthetic or recombinant NA encoding the chimeric polypeptide comprising (s1);    (36) increasing thermotolerance or thermostability of a lignocellulosic polypeptide;    (37) overexpressing a recombinant LE in a cell;    (38) making transgenic plant;    (39) expressing a heterologous NAS in plant cell;    (40) hydrolyzing e.g. cellooligosaccharide, cellulose;    (41) producing a beverage using (P1);    (42) delivering LE supplement to an animal;    (43) making a fuel;    (44) an enzyme cocktail for depolymerization of cellulosic polymers;    (45) processing biomass material;    (46) treating soild or liquid animal waste;    (47) a mixture (M1) of cocktail of enzymes;    (48) a composition comprising (M1) and optionally biomass material;    (49) a chimeric polypeptide (P2); and    (50) an isolated synthetic and/or recombinant CBM.