Researchers have begun studying the genetics of pennycress in order to improve its potential use as a biofuel crop.

There are plans to expand the growth of biofuel crops at the expense of savannah and rainforest.

Algae have some distinct advantages over biofuel crops such as corn and canola.

He said the use of farmland previously earmarked for food production to grow biofuel crops had created the shortfall.

And don't we need seed to produce future biofuel crops, and pharmaceuticals, and the plants that help to regulate our environment?

The company plans to take back the full ownership of the global planting assets and interests of the joint venture to develop a non-edible crop, jatropha, as a biofuel feedstock.

As a biofuel feedstock, palm oil can meet a similar demand with energy, offering an alternative strategy when the markets are knocked out of kilter.

Multiple pathways for the conversion of different biofuel feedstocks are being used.

That vision has echoes of the original biofuel industry boom.

The biofuel industry has been competing for supplies of grain, pushing up the cost of soybean and corn.

Yeasts have recently been used to generate electricity in microbial fuel cells, and produce ethanol for the biofuel industry.

To foster the biofuel industry, governments have implemented legislations and laws as incentives to reduce oil dependency and to increase the use of renewable energies.

Environmental campaigners have voiced concern about the planned biofuel plant.

Some are even looking to harvest invasive species as feedstock for biofuel plants.

Rather than displace food crops at a time when the world population was rising and demand was increasing, the biofuel plants could be grown on marginal land.

They later abandon biofuel planting altogether. 1 year after oil, emergency vehicles start to be run either by lithium battery or biofuel.