Basic Information on Maize

Compendium of Bioenergy Plants CORN

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1-32

  Solomon, Barry D ^a   Birchler, James ^b   Goldman, Stephen L ^c   Zhang, Qiong ^d  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

biofuel; ethanol; gene; genome; greenhouse gas; net energy value

Indexed keywords

EID: 85178596933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b16438-8     Document Type: Chapter

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