Showing posts with label elephant grass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elephant grass. Show all posts
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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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Labels: biofuel, biomass, elephant grass
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