Biofuels: greenhouse gas mitigation and global warming : next generation biofuels and role of biotechnology /: next generation biofuels and role of biotechnology. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ashwani Kumar, Shinjiro Ogita, Yuan-Yeu Yau.
• Editors: Kumar, Ashwani; Ogita, Shinjiro; Yau, Yuan-Yeu
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Global warming, climate change and greenhouse-gas mitigation -- Chapter 3. Historical development of biofuels -- Chapter 4. Perspective of biofuel production from different sources -- Chapter 5. Potential biomass for biofuels from wastelands -- Chapter 6. Predicting high and stable biomass production by calorirespirometry: a novel approach -- Chapter 7. Appropriate rural technologies: 1. agricultural waste to charcoal 2. strategies for biogas production from organic garbage -- Chapter 8. Biofuel production: Lignocellulosic feedstock improvement for biofuel production through molecular breeding and biotechnology -- Chapter 9. A review on first- and second-generation biofuel production -- Chapter 10. Critical evaluation of biodiesel production initiatives in India -- Chapter 11. Biofuel sector in Malaysia: challenges and future prospects -- Chapter 12. Assessment of non-plantation biomass resources potential for energy in India -- Chapter 13. Agrotechnology, production and demonstration of high quality planting material in three tier system for biofuels in semi-arid and arid conditions -- Chapter 14. Alternative biomass from saline and semi-arid and arid conditions as a source of biofuels: 1. Salicornia in Gujrat -- Chapter 15. Alternative Biomass from saline and semi-arid and arid conditions as a source of biofuels: 2. Calotropis species in Rajasthan -- Chapter 16. Potential of lignocellulosic materials for production of ethanol -- Chapter 17. Agro industrial lignocellulosic waste: an alternative to unravel the future bioenergy -- Chapter 18. Third-generation biofuel: algal biofuels as a sustainable energy source -- Chapter 19. Recent progress in the genetic engineering of biofuel crops -- Chapter 20. Bioresources and technologies that accelerate biomass research -- Chapter 21. Biotechnological research in Cryptomeria japonica -- Chapter 22. Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase deficiency causes brown midrib phenotype in rice -- Chapter 23. The distribution, evolution and transposition of the mariner-like elements in bamboo -- Chapter 24. Novel molecular tools for metabolic engineering to improve microalgae-based biofuel production -- Chapter 25. Synthetic and semi-synthetic metabolic pathways for fourth-generation biofuel production: Future projections.
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Springer India
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (XXIII, 432 pages), 147 illustrations, 97 illustrations in color
• Subjects: 621.042; Biomass energy; Global warming; Climatic changes; Biotechnology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Chemical & Biochemical; Renewable energy sources; Nature; Educational technology; Economics -- Sociological aspects; Climatic changes; Clean energy industries; Agriculture; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9788132237631; 8132237633
• Related ISBNs: 9788132237617; 8132237617
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