Biofuels

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Historical Perspective of Biofuels: Learning from the Past to Rediscover the Future

   • David Songstad, Prakash Lakshmanan, John Chen, William Gibbons, Stephen Hughes, R. Nelson

   Pages 1-7

3. The DOE BioEnergy Science Center-A U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergys Research Center

   • Russ Miller, Martin Keller

   Pages 9-18

4. Drivers Leading to Higher Food Prices: Biofuels are not the Main Factor

   • Paul Armah, Aaron Archer, Gregory C. Phillips

   Pages 19-36

5. The Economics of Current and Future Biofuels

   • Ling Tao, Andy Aden

   Pages 37-69

6. A Multiple Species Approach to Biomass Production from Native Herbaceous Perennial Feedstocks

   • J. L. Gonzalez-Hernandez, G. Sarath, J. M. Stein, V. Owens, K. Gedye, A. Boe

   Pages 71-96

7. Development and Status of Dedicated Energy Crops in the United States

   • Russell W. Jessup

   Pages 97-112

8. Genetic Improvement of C4 Grasses as Cellulosic Biofuel Feedstocks

   • Katrin Jakob, Fasong Zhou, Andrew H. Paterson

   Pages 113-138

9. Short-Rotation Woody Crops for Bioenergy and Biofuels Applications

   • Maud Hinchee, William Rottmann, Lauren Mullinax, Chunsheng Zhang, Shujun Chang, Michael Cunningham et al.

   Pages 139-156

10. The Brazilian Experience of Sugarcane Ethanol Industry

    • Sizuo Matsuoka, Jesus Ferro, Paulo Arruda

    Pages 157-172

11. Biofuels: Opportunities and Challenges in India

    • Mambully Chandrasekharan Gopinathan, Rajasekaran Sudhakaran

    Pages 173-209

12. Biofuels in China: Opportunities and Challenges

    • Feng Wang, Xue-Rong Xing, Chun-Zhao Liu

    Pages 211-222

13. Genetic Modification of Lignin Biosynthesis for Improved Biofuel Production

    • Hiroshi Hisano, Rangaraj Nandakumar, Zeng-Yu Wang

    Pages 223-235

14. Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol: The Role of Plant-Expressed Enzymes

    • Manuel B. Sainz

    Pages 237-264

15. Integrated Biorefineries with Engineered Microbes and High-value Co-products for Profitable Biofuels Production

    • William Gibbons, Stephen Hughes

    Pages 265-283

16. Biodiesel Production, Properties, and Feedstocks

    • Bryan R. Moser

    Pages 285-347

17. Erratum

    • Dwight Tomes, Prakash Lakshmanan, David Songstad

    Pages E1-E1

18. Back Matter

    Pages 349-357

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This comprehensive volume developed under the guidance of guest editors Prakash Lakshmanan and David Songstad features broad coverage of the topic of biofuels and its significance to the economy and to agriculture. These chapters were first published by In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology In Vitro Plant in 2009 and consists of 15 chapters from experts who are recognized both for their scientific accomplishments and global perspective in their assigned topics.

• Agriculture
• BioEnergy
• Biofuels
• In Vitro Plant Biology

• , Crop Genetics Research and Development, Dupont Agriculture and Nutrition, Johnston, USA

  Dwight Tomes

• Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia

  Prakash Lakshmanan

• Monsanto, St. Louis, USA

  David Songstad

Dwight Tomes is a Research Fellow in the Trait Discovery & Technologies group at Pioneer, a DuPont Company in Johnston, IA. My primary responsibilities since 1982 have been in transformation technology development in multiple crop species and trait development in several agronomic trait areas of corn. Dwight is currently the Editor-in-Chief of In-Vitro Plant. Prakash Lakshmanan, PhD, leads Molecular Breeding Program in David North Plant Research Centre, BSES Limited, Australia. His research focuses on crop improvement with particular emphasis on regulation of plant growth and resource use efficiency. Since 1998 he is working on sugarcane, a major industrial and biofuel crop. David Songstad is originally from South Dakota and attended South Dakota State University for his BS (Microbiology) and MS (Botany) and received his Ph.D. in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Tennessee. He has worked for the University of Illinois, Plant Biotechnology Institute (Canada), Pioneer Hi-Bred and Monsanto where he developed enabling technologies for corn tissue culture and corn transformation. He is currently the Global New Products Lead for Monsanto.

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