Herbaceous energy crop development: recent progress and future prospects

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 202-209

  Heaton, Emily A ^a   Flavell, Richard B ^a   Mascia, Peter N ^a   Thomas, Steven R ^a   Dohleman, Frank G ^b   Long, Stephen P ^b  

^a Ceres Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CALCIUM; CANNING; CELLS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CROPS; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FOOD PRESERVATION; NATURAL RESOURCES; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POWER GENERATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; RHENIUM; SEPARATION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SOLAR RADIATION;

APPLIED (CO); CHARGE SEPARATION (CS); ELSEVIER (CO); ENERGETIC COSTS; ENERGY CROPS; FOOD CROPS; FUTURE PROSPECTS; IN PLANTS; OIL PRICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV); PLANT BREEDING; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; RAPID GROWTH; SYNTHESIS (OF CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS); TRANSDUCING; TRANSPORTATION FUELS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

BIOMASS; CROP IMPROVEMENT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENERGY; HEAT; OXYGENATION; PHOTORESPIRATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLAR ENERGY;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; LIGNIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 45249112143     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2008.05.001     Document Type: Review

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