生物燃料领域是生物技术相关学科中被讨论得最多的研究领域。本书艺术性地总结了生物燃料的经济现状、农业生产力和可持续发展，以及全球视角。本书很好地把生物燃料的知识分隔成了不同的章节和特定知识点，使之更易阅读和理解。此外，每章的参考文献都是进一步研究的宝贵资源。

《生物燃料(可再生能源农业生产和技术进步对全球的影响影印版)》(作者托姆斯、P.Lakshmanan、D.Songstad)内各章内容最初在2009年发表于医学期In Witro Cellular and DevetopmentalBiology-Plant，共15篇文章，其中每个主题以其出色的科学成就和独特的全球视角，获得了专家的认可。

生物燃料领域是生物技术相关学科中被讨论得最多的研究领域。《生物燃料(可再生能源农业生产和技术进步对全球的影响影印版)》艺术地总结了生物燃料的经济现状、农业生产力和可持续发展，以及全球视角。《生物燃料(可再生能源农业生产和技术进步对全球的影响影印版)》(作者托姆斯、P.Lakshmanan、D.Songstad)很好的把生物燃料的知识分隔成了不同的章节和特定知识点，使之更易阅读和理解。此外，每章的参考文献都是进一步研究的宝贵资源。

《生物燃料(可再生能源农业生产和技术进步对全球的影响影印版)》的涉及范围广泛，一方面可以在实验室和教学中向学生介绍最新的技术进展，另一方面也可以让关注于生物燃料在国际范围内的经济分析的企业家们感到兴趣。

1 Historical Perspective of Biofuels:

Learning from the Past to Rediscover the Future

David Songstad, Prakash Lakshmanan, John Chen,

William Gibbons, Stephen Hughes, and R. Nelson

2 The DOE BioEnergy Science Center-A U.S.

Department of Energy Bioenergys Research Center

Russ Miller and Martin Keller

3 Drivers Leading to Higher Food Prices:

Biofuels are not the Main Factor

Paul Arrnah, Aaron Archer, and Gregory C. Phillips

4 The Economics of Current and Future Biofuels

Ling Tao and Andy Aden

5 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, and A. Boe

6 Development and Status of Dedicated Energy

Crops in the United States

Russell W. Jessup

7 Genetic Improvement of C4 Grasses as Cellulosic

Biofuel Feedstocks

Katrin Jakob, Fasong Zhou, and Andrew H. Paterson

8 Short-Rotation Woody Crops for Bioenergy

and Biofuels Applications

Maud Hinchee, William Rottmann, Lauren Mullinax,

Chunsheng Zhang, Shujun Chang, Michael Cunningham,

Leslie Pearson, and Narender Nehra

9 The Brazilian Experience of Sugarcane Ethanol Industry

Sizuo Matsuoka, Jesus Ferro, and Paulo Arruda

10 Biofuels: Opportunities and Challenges in India

Mambully Chandrasekharan Gopinathan and Rajasekaran Sudhakaran

11 Biofuels in China: Opportunities and Challenges

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

12 Genetic Modification of Lignin Biosynthesis

for Improved Biofuel Production

Hiroshi Hisano, Rangaraj Nandakumar, and Zeng-Yu Wang

13 Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol:

The Role of Plant-Expressed Enzymes

Manuel B. Sainz

14 Integrated Biorefineries with Engineered Microbes

and High-value Co-products for Profitable

Biofuels Production

W. R. Gibbons and S. R. Hughes

15 Biodiesel Production, Properties, and Feedstocks

Bryan R. Moser

Erratum

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