Sustainable bioenergy for climate mitigation: developing drought-tolerant trees and grasses
Author(s)
Date Issued
2019
Type
article
Volume
124
Issue
4
Start Page
513-520
End Page
520
Journal
Abstract
Bioenergy crops are central to climate mitigation strategies that utilize biogenic carbon, such as BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage), alongside the use of biomass for heat, power, liquid fuels and, in the future, biorefining to chemicals. Several promising lignocellulosic crops are emerging that have no food role - fast-growing trees and grasses - but are well suited as bioenergy feedstocks, including Populus, Salix, Arundo, Miscanthus, Panicum and Sorghum.