Expect biofuel from grass soon!

Rediff - India Abroad
Commodity Online April 30, 2008 15:53 IST

Forget the controversy over fuel from corn, sugarcane and wheat, here comes biofuel from grass to save the world from food crisis. In an effort to produce biofuel from a variety of elephant grass, Monsanto Co of Creve Coeur and Mendel Biotechnology Inc are joining hands.

According to the two companies, Monsanto will lend its crop-testing, breeding and seed-production expertise to the Bioenergy Seeds & Feedstocks unit of Mendel, based in Hayward, California.

Mendel will apply this knowledge to a type of elephant grass from China, which is not grown in the US, in hopes of developing a plentiful and easily grown source of fuel for the world's growing number of trucks and cars.

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