biofuel crop
USDA scientists sequence genome of grass that can be a biofuel model crop
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute today announced that they have…
Biofuel crops pose invasive pest risk
Their findings, published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, conclude that biofuel crops proposed for use in the Hawaiian Islands are two to…
Store Jatropha seeds right to maintain high germination
Farmers and businessmen in the Philippines have scrambled planting the Physica Nut (Jatropha curcas), a biofuel crop seen having big potential returns once the…
Biofuels boom could fuel rainforest destruction
“If we run our cars on biofuels produced in the tropics, chances will be good that we are effectively burning rainforests in our gas tanks,” she warned. Policies favoring biofuel crop production may inadvertently contribute to, not slow, the process of climate change, Gibbs said. Such an environmental disaster could be “just around the corner without more thoughtful energy policies that consider potential ripple effects on tropical forests,” she added. …
Replacing corn with perennial grasses improves carbon footprint of biofuels
The researchers analyzed data from dozens of studies to determine how planting new biofuel crops can influence the carbon content of the soil. Their findings…
Can Biofuels be Sustainable?
Corn stover is made up of the leaves and stalks of corn plants that are left in the field after harvesting the edible corn grain. Corn stover could supply as…