What is it about?
People started to realize the limitation of fossil energy resources coupled with concerns over the effects of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; thus, major efforts are now devoted to the search for alternative energy sources. The huge potential of plant biomass, which could replace fossil oil, has generated a significant interest towards the sustainable production of renewable energy.
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Why is it important?
The importance of biofuel plants for environmental benefits is growing due to their reduced greenhouse gas emissions as compared to fossil fuel consumption. The special issue proposes several invited articles that discuss both annual and perennial biofuel crops, and highlights the approaches by which they are genetically improved using a range of different technologies and applications and the economic production of biofuels.
Perspectives
Biofuel production has developed forward to a second and third generation of biofuels produced from non-food biomass, which does not compete with classical food production crops. In the latter case, research is focusing on the use of bulk plant biomass such as cellulose from the cell walls, or triacylglycerols from new and non-food oil crops, e.g. Jatropha, but also oil palm, Camelina and algae, to produce more positive outcomes for our future need of sustainable energy.
Nicolas Carels
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
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This page is a summary of: Editorial: Sustainable production of renewable energy from non-food crops, Biotechnology Journal, April 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201500100.
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