Global bioenergy potential from high-lignin agricultural residue

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4014-4019

  Mendu, Venugopal ^a   Shearin, Tom ^a   Campbell, J Elliott ^b   Stork, Jozsef ^a   Jae, Jungho ^c   Crocker, Mark ^a   Huber, George ^c   DeBolt, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Merced   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BIOMASS ENERGY; COCONUT; DECENTRALIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENERGY RESOURCE; FOOD SECURITY; GASIFICATION; INDIA; INDONESIA; PHILIPPINES; PLANT RESIDUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SOIL FERTILITY; SRI LANKA;

ANIMALIA; COCOS NUCIFERA;

EID: 84857970364     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112757109     Document Type: Article

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