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Sorghum: A Multipurpose Bioenergy Crop

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Title Sorghum: A Multipurpose Bioenergy Crop
 
Creator Rao, P S
Vinutha, K S
Kumar, G S A
Chiranjeevi, T
Uma, A
Lal, P
Prakasham, R S
Singh, H P
Sreenivasa Rao, R
Chopra, S
Jose, S
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Bioethanol and biodiesel produced from renewable energy sources are gaining
importance in light of volatile fossil fuel prices, depleting oil reserves, and increasing
greenhouse effects associated with the use of fossil fuels. Among several alternative
renewable energy sources, energy derived from plant biomass is found to be promising
and sustainable. Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a resilient dryland cereal
crop with wide adaptation having high water, nutrient, and radiation use efficiencies.
This crop is expected to enhance food, feed, fodder, and fuel security. Sweet sorghum
is similar to grain sorghum but has the ability to accumulate sugars in the stalks without
much reduction in grain production. Hence, it is used as a first-generation biofuel
feedstock, where the grain and stalk sugars can be used for producing bioenergy, while
energy sorghum or biomass sorghum is increasingly viewed as a potential feedstock
for lignocellulosic biofuel production. Although the commercial use of sweet sorghum
for bioethanol production has been demonstrated in China and India, the viability
of large-scale lignocellulosic conversion of sorghum biomass to biofuels is yet to be
demonstrated. This chapter dwells on sorghum feedstock characteristics, biofuel production
models, sustainability indicators, and commercialization.
 
Publisher American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America
 
Contributor Ciampitti, I
Prasad, V
 
Date 2016-07-11
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9625/1/books.pdf
Rao, P S and Vinutha, K S and Kumar, G S A and Chiranjeevi, T and Uma, A and Lal, P and Prakasham, R S and Singh, H P and Sreenivasa Rao, R and Chopra, S and Jose, S (2016) Sorghum: A Multipurpose Bioenergy Crop. In: Sorghum: State of the Art and Future Perspectives. American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America, US, 01-26. ISBN 978-0-89118-628-1