Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop Volume 1: Farming, Econom
Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop, Volume 1 reports on the state of the art of scientific investigations on the new crop Jatropha curcas made during the past decade. The progresses obtained on the knowledge of this abstemious, semi-wild species a
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Nicolas Carels • Mulpuri Sujatha • Bir Bahadur Editors
Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop Volume 1: Farming, Economics and Biofuel
Editors Nicolas Carels Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Fiocruz/IOC, Manguinhos Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mulpuri Sujatha Principal Scientist Crop Improvement Section Directorate of Oilseeds Research Hyderabad, India
Bir Bahadur Kakatiya University Warangal, India
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Foreword
In our world, where energy demand is increasing and access to fossil fuels becomes uncertain and expensive, a growing interest in renewable energy is developing. In particular, financial efforts and scientific investments have been made to find substitutes to replace gasoline in transportation. Plant sugars, oils, and, more generally, plant biomass are proposed as possible options to produce liquid bioenergy. In this context, the 1980s saw the extensive cultivation of crops and wild species with high carbohydrate or fat content for biofuels. With the food price increase of 2007, p
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