Plant Biotechnology for Sustainable Production of Energy and Co-products - Mascia, Peter N.; Scheffran, Jürgen.; Widholm, Jack M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
to Biofuels -- Overview: World Energy Resources and the Need for Biomass for Energy and Lower Fossil Carbon Dioxide Emissions -- Designing Biomass Crops with Improved Calorific Content and Attributes for Burning: a UK Perspective -- Designing Plants To Meet Feedstock Needs -- Specific Biofuel Feedstocks -- Engineering Advantages, Challenges and Status of Sugarcane and other Sugar-Based Biomass Resources -- High Fermentable Corn Hybrids for the Dry-Grind Corn Ethanol Industry -- Engineering Advantages, Challenges and Status of Grass Energy Crops -- Woody Biomass and Purpose-Grown Trees as Feedstocks for Renewable Energy -- Engineering Status, Challenges and Advantages of Oil Crops -- Mitigating Invasiveness -- Invasive Species Biology, Ecology, Management and Risk Assessment: Evaluating and Mitigating the Invasion Risk of Biofuel Crops -- Gene Flow in Genetically Engineered Perennial Grasses: Lessons for Modification of Dedicated Bioenergy Crops -- Genetic Modification in Dedicated Bioenergy Crops and Strategies for Gene Confinement -- Models for Uses of Biomass Feedstocks -- Integrated Biorefineries-A Bottom-Up Approach to Biomass Fractionation -- Heat and Power Production from Stover for Corn Ethanol Plants -- Agricultural Fit of Biomass Crops and Lifecycle Analysis and Criteria -- The Problem is the Solution: the Role of Biofuels in the Transition to a Regenerative Agriculture -- Life-Cycle Analysis of Biofuels -- Criteria for a Sustainable Bioenergy Infrastructure and Lifecycle.
Keywords: Sustainable development; Energy policy; Energy and state; Plant genetics; Agriculture; Forestry; Plant breeding; Sustainable Development; Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Plant Genetics and Genomics; Agriculture; Forestry; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.