Biofuels: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Global Warming: Next Generation Biofuels and Role of Biotechnology (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Global warming, climate change and greenhouse-gas mitigation.- Chapter 3. Historical development of biofuels.- Chapter 4. Perspective of biofuel production from different sources.- Chapter 5. Potential biomass for biofuels from wastelands.- Chapter 6. Predicting high and stable biomass production by calorirespirometry: a novel approach.- Chapter 7. Appropriate rural technologies: 1. agricultural waste to charcoal 2. strategies for biogas production from organic garbage.- Chapter 8. Biofuel production: Lignocellulosic feedstock improvement for biofuel production through molecular breeding and biotechnology.- Chapter 9. A review on first- and second-generation biofuel production.- Chapter 10. Critical evaluation of biodiesel production initiatives in India.- Chapter 11. Biofuel sector in Malaysia: challenges and future prospects.- Chapter 12. Assessment of non-plantation biomass resources potential for energy in India.- Chapter 13. Agrotechnology, production and demonstration of high quality planting material in three tier system for biofuels in semi-arid and arid conditions.- Chapter 14. Alternative biomass from saline and semi-arid and arid conditions as a source of biofuels: 1. Salicornia in Gujrat.- Chapter 15. Alternative Biomass from saline and semi-arid and arid conditions as a source of biofuels: 2. Calotropis species in Rajasthan.- Chapter 16. Potential of lignocellulosic materials for production of ethanol.- Chapter 17. Agro industrial lignocellulosic waste: an alternative to unravel the future bioenergy.- Chapter 18. Third-generation biofuel: algal biofuels as a sustainable energy source.- Chapter 19. Recent progress in the genetic engineering of biofuel crops.- Chapter 20. Bioresources and technologies that accelerate biomass research.- Chapter 21. Biotechnological research in Cryptomeria japonica.- Chapter 22. Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase deficiency causes brown midrib phenotype in rice.- Chapter 23. The distribution, evolution and transposition of the mariner-like elements in bamboo.- Chapter 24. Novel molecular tools for metabolic engineering to improve microalgae-based biofuel production.- Chapter 25. Synthetic and semi-synthetic metabolic pathways for fourth-generation biofuel production: Future projections.