This title evaluates maize as a bioenergy fuel source from two perspectives, exploring whether the input energy needed to generate fuel is significantly exceeded by the energy harvested. The chapters provide assessments of the social, economic, and political impact on fuel pricing, food costs, and the environmental challenge, with corn biomass the engine of change. It then examines whether corn can be genetically improved so that its biomass is significantly increased.
This title evaluates maize as a bioenergy fuel source from two perspectives, exploring whether the input energy needed to generate fuel is significant...
This book contains the most comprehensive reviews on the latest development of switchgrass research including the agronomy of the plant, the use of endophytes and mycorrhizae for biomass production, genetics and breeding of bioenergy related traits, molecular genetics and molecular breeding, genomics, transgenics, processing, bioconversion, biosystem and chemical engineering, biomass production modeling, economics of switchgrass feedstock production etc. The book will be of interest and great value to the switchgrass research communities in both academia and industry and a handbook for...
This book contains the most comprehensive reviews on the latest development of switchgrass research including the agronomy of the plant, the use of...
This volume of the Bioenergy Plants compendium contains a collection of chapters that focus on the history, economics, and practical sciences related to sugarcane. As one of the key biofuel crops in the world that is under large-scale cultivation, sugarcane is attracting interests for its adoption and emulation worldwide. With a high ratio of energy output to input for its production, sugarcane-derived bioethanol currently has the lowest carbon footprint as a renewable fuel product. Comprehensive chapters explore all the essential aspects of sugarcane's origin as a crop, its limitations,...
This volume of the Bioenergy Plants compendium contains a collection of chapters that focus on the history, economics, and practical sciences relat...
