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Industrial crops and uses /

This book gives an overview of industrial crops, various issues related to industrial crops, crops and processes involved in generating energy in the form of heat and electricity as well as liquid fuel, ethanol production from sugar crops, grain crops and lignocellulosic crops and processes and bypr...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
Subjects:
Field crops > Utilization.
Field crops > Industrial applications.
Marketing and Distribution.
Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000)
Field Crops, (New March 2000)
Plant Breeding and Genetics.
Plant Production.
Plant Pests, (New March 2000)
Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000)
Soil Morphology, Formation and Classification.
Energy.
Pollution and Degradation.
Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.
Composition and Quality of Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.
Plant Wastes.
Industrial Wastes and Effluents.
Beta vulgaris var. saccharifera.
Gossypium.
Gossypium hirsutum.
Hevea brasiliensis.
Insects.
Parthenium argentatum.
Plants.
Saccharum.
Saccharum officinarum.
Biodiesel.
Biofuels.
Bioremediation.
Botanical insecticides.
Cotton.
Crop production.
Crop residues.
Dye plants.
Dyes.
Ethanol.
Feedstocks.
Fibre plants.
Fibre quality.
Gums.
Industrial crops.
Insect control.
Insect pests.
Insecticidal plants.
Insecticides.
Latex.
Marketing.
Oilseed plants.
Pest control.
Plant breeding methods.
Plant pests.
Polluted soils.
Processing.
Resins.
Rubber.
Soil pollution.
Starch.
Sugar crops.
Sugarbeet.
Sugarcane.
Waxes.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Overview of Industrial Crops / Bharat P. Singh
  • Bioenergy Industry Status and Prospects / Paul Chen, Yiqin Wan, Xiaoquan Wang, Yanling Cheng, Yuhuan Liu, Xiangyang Lin and Roger Ruan
  • Heat and Power Generation by Gasification and Combustion / Ralph E.H. Sims
  • Ethanol from Sugar Crops / Gillian Eggleston, Thomas Tew, Lee Panella and Thomas Klasson
  • Ethanol from Grain Crops / Renyong Zhao, Xiaorong Wu, Scott Bean and Donghai Wang
  • Ethanol from Lignocellulosic Crops / Kazuhiro Takamizawa, William Anderson and Hari P. Singh
  • Biodiesel from Oilseed Crops / Dev Shrestha and Jon Van Gerpen
  • Industrial Oil Types and Uses / Lou Honary
  • Improvement of Industrial Oil Crops / Denis J. Murphy
  • Starch Characterization, Variety and Application / Jay-lin Jane, Clodualdo C. Maningat and Rungtiwa Wongsagonsup
  • In Planta Modification of Starch Quantity and Quality / Sarita Jaiswal, Seedhabadee Ganeshan, Monica Båga and Ravindra N. Chibbar
  • Cotton Production, Processing and Uses of Cotton Raw Material / B. Todd Campbell and Lori Hinze
  • Research in Cotton Fibre Improvement / Lorenzo Aleman and Randy D. Allen
  • Bast Fibres : From Plants to Products / Jonathan Y. Chen and Frank Liu
  • Bast Fibre Processing and Uses / Holger Fischer and Jörg Müssig
  • Plant Dyes / R. Siva
  • Natural Rubber / Hari P. Singh and Bharat P. Singh
  • Guayule : Culture, Breeding and Rubber Production / Dennis T. Ray, Michael A. Foster, Terry A. Coffelt and Colleen McMahan
  • Gums, Resins and Waxes / Enrico Casadei and Ben Chikamai
  • Botanical Insecticides, Deterrents, Repellents and Oils / Murray B. Isman
  • Principles of Plant-based Remediation of Contaminated Soils / Peter M. Kopittke, Enzo Lombi, Neal W. Menzies and Ravi Naidu
  • Phytoremedial Crops and Current Research / Priya Padmanabhan and Shivendra V. Sahi.

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