An overview of biofuels from energy crops: Current status and future prospects

G Koçar, N Civaş - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Energy crops constitute significant potential for meeting the future energy need worldwide. In
addition, agricultural lands offer an alternative to the agriculture which is referred to as …

Crop residue removal impacts on soil productivity and environmental quality

H Blanco-Canqui, R Lal - Critical reviews in plant science, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Crop residues are a potential source of renewable feedstocks for cellulosic ethanol
production because of their high cellulose content and easy availability. Indiscriminate …

Technologies for biofuel production: current development, challenges, and future prospects

D Kour, KL Rana, N Yadav, AN Yadav… - Prospects of renewable …, 2019 - Springer
The global energy demand is increasing day by day, with which substantial risk to the
environment is also increasing. The consumption of the fuel, as well as the demand, is …

The insect‐pathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii (Clavicipitaceae) is also an endophyte that stimulates plant root development

RK Sasan, MJ Bidochka - American journal of botany, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: The soil‐inhabiting insect‐pathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii
also colonizes plant roots endophytically, thus showing potential as a plant symbiont …

Impact of land use and land cover change on the water balance of a large agricultural watershed: Historical effects and future directions

KE Schilling, MK Jha, YK Zhang… - Water Resources …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last century, land use and land cover (LULC) in the United States Corn Belt region
shifted from mixed perennial and annual cropping systems to primarily annual crops …

Switchgrass for bioethanol and other value-added applications: a review

DR Keshwani, JJ Cheng - Bioresource technology, 2009 - Elsevier
Switchgrass is a promising feedstock for value-added applications due to its high
productivity, potentially low requirements for agricultural inputs and positive environmental …

Plants to power: bioenergy to fuel the future

JS Yuan, KH Tiller, H Al-Ahmad, NR Stewart… - Trends in plant …, 2008 - cell.com
Bioenergy should play an essential part in reaching targets to replace petroleum-based
transportation fuels with a viable alternative, and in reducing long-term carbon dioxide …

Shotgun metagenome data of a defined mock community using Oxford Nanopore, PacBio and Illumina technologies

V Sevim, J Lee, R Egan, A Clum, H Hundley, J Lee… - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
Metagenomic sequence data from defined mock communities is crucial for the assessment
of sequencing platform performance and downstream analyses, including assembly, binning …

The potential of C4 grasses for cellulosic biofuel production

T van der Weijde, CL Alvim Kamei, AF Torres… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
With the advent of biorefinery technologies enabling plant biomass to be processed into
biofuel, many researchers set out to study and improve candidate biomass crops. Many of …

Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River

SD Donner, CJ Kucharik - Proceedings of the National …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Corn cultivation in the United States is expected to increase to meet demand for ethanol.
Nitrogen leaching from fertilized corn fields to the Mississippi–Atchafalaya River system is a …