Cassava, a potential biofuel crop in (the) People's Republic of China

Abstract

Cassava ranks fifth among crops in global starch production. It is used as staple food in many tropical countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. In (the) People's Republic of China, although not yet a staple food, cassava is of major economic importance for starch for a large area of southern (the) PRC, especially in the provinces of Guangdong, Guanxi, Yunnan and Hainan. Recently, cassava-derived bioethanol production has been increasing due to its economic benefits compared to other bioethanol-producing crops in the country. We discuss here the possible potentials of cassava for bioethanol production

Keywords

Cassava; Bioethanol; Biofuel; Metabolic engineering; (the) People's Republic of China (PRC)

Published in

Applied Energy
2009, volume: 86, number: Supplement 1, pages: S95-S99

SLU Authors

• Jansson, Christer

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)

• Westerbergh, Anna

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Sun, Chuanxin

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Renewable Bioenergy Research

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.05.011

Permanent link to this page (URI)

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