Replacing Fossil Oil with Plant-Derived Biomass
February 5, 2010| |
Plant biotechnology can provide tools to improve the prospects of replacing fossil oil with plant-derived biomass by increasing the amount of biomass produced per unit area of land and improving the composition of the biomass to increase the efficiency of conversion to biofuel and biomaterials, stressed a paper published by the Plant Biotechnology Journal. Authored by Robert J. Henry of Southern Cross University, in Australia, the paper evaluates the plant biomass resources available for replacement of fossil oils.
"Innovations that promote rapid biomass growth and development and engineering of cell wall biosynthetic pathways will be required. A high yield per unit of land area and a high conversion efficiency are essential to the delivery of an environmentally sustainable biofuel production system," Henry wrote in the paper. Henry also noted the possibility of making fuel production more efficient and economic by engineering plants that express enzymes required for processing as well as plants that produce high value coproducts.
Download the original paper at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7652.2009.00482.x
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