Biofuels: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Global Warming

1. Global Warming, Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Ashwani Kumar

2. Historical Development of Biofuels
Sunita Agarwal, Ashwani Kumar

3. Perspective of Biofuel Production from Different Sources
Peiman Zandi, Saikat K. Basu, Muhammad Asif, William Cetzal-Ix, Arvind H. Hirani, Ashwani Kumar

4. Potential Biomass for Biofuels from Wastelands
Amit Kotiya, Meghendra Kumar Sharma, Ashwani Kumar

5. Predicting Biomass Production from Plant Robustness and Germination Efficiency by Calorespirometry
Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt, Gunasekaran Mohanapriya, Ramalingam Sathishkumar, Elisete Santos Macedo, José Hélio Costa

6. Appropriate Rural Technologies: Agricultural Waste to Charcoal and Strategies for Biogas Production from Organic Garbage
Anand D. Karve

7. Lignocellulosic Feedstock Improvement for Biofuel Production Through Conventional Breeding and Biotechnology
Yuan-Yeu Yau, Mona Easterling

8. A Review on First- and Second-Generation Biofuel Productions
Arvind H. Hirani, Nasir Javed, Muhammad Asif, Saikat K. Basu, Ashwani Kumar

9. Critical Evaluation of Biodiesel Production Initiatives in India
Chigullapalli Sreenivas, Anand B. Rao, Anand Patwardhan

10. Biofuel Sector in Malaysia: Challenges and Future Prospects
Kalaivani K. Nadarajah

11. Assessment of Non-plantation Biomass Resources Potential for Energy in India
Chigullapalli Sreenivas, Anand B. Rao, Anand Patwardhan

12. Agrotechnology, Production, and Demonstration of High-Quality Planting Material for Biofuels in Arid and Semiarid Regions
Ashwani Kumar, Shikha Roy

13. Alternative Biomass from Saline and Semiarid and Arid Conditions as a Source of Biofuels: Salicornia

Ashwani Kumar, Ebin Abraham, Arti Gupta

14. Alternative Biomass from Semiarid and Arid Conditions as a Biofuel Source: Calotropis procera and Its Genomic Characterization
Ashwani Kumar

15. Potential of Lignocellulosic Materials for Production of Ethanol
Ashwani Kumar, Nidhi Gupta

16. Agro-industrial Lignocellulosic Waste: An Alternative to Unravel the Future Bioenergy
Nidhi V. Maheshwari

17. Third-Generation Biofuel: Algal Biofuels as a Sustainable Energy Source
Randhir S. Gajraj, Gajendra P. Singh, Ashwani Kumar

18. Recent Progress in the Genetic Engineering of Biofuel Crops
Kinya Akashi, Yoshihiko Nanasato

19. Bioresources and Technologies That Accelerate Biomass Research
Yasuyo Himuro, Masatomo Kobayashi

20. Biotechnological Research in Cryptomeria japonica

Toru Taniguchi

21. Cinnamyl Alcohol Dehydrogenase Deficiency Causes the Brown Midrib Phenotype in Rice
Toshiaki Umezawa, Masahiro Sakamoto, Taichi Koshiba

22. The Distribution, Evolution, Structural Characteristics, and Functional Analysis of the Mariner-Like Elements in Bamboo
Ding-Qin Tang, Ming-Bing Zhou

23. Novel Molecular Tools for Metabolic Engineering to Improve Microalgae-Based Biofuel Production
Yuan-Yeu Yau, Mona Easterling

24. Synthetic and Semisynthetic Metabolic Pathways for Biofuel Production
Shikha Bhansali, Ashwani Kumar

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