Monday, November 5, 2007 - 1:15 PM
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The Potential for Highly Productive Plant Biofuels.

Emily Heaton, Ceres, Inc., Ceres, Inc., 1535 Rancho Conejo Boulevard, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320

Increasingly it is recognized that plant biofuels will replace a portion of our fossil fuel derived energy. The details are less clear. How much energy can biofuels provide? What are the best biofuels? What is their environmental impact? Can a grower make money growing biofuels? This presentation will review the US biofuel scene today with a focus on sustainable, yet highly productive, perennial biofuel systems. Regional crop combinations, the role of annuals in a perennial system, and the improvement of today’s primitive biomass crops will be discussed.

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