Forage Crops in the Bioenergy Revolution: From Fields to Fuel (Hardcover)

Part-1 : Global Food Security, Bioenergy Production and Forage Crops.- Chapter 1. Global Food Security and Sustainable Development: An Overview.- Chapter 2. Global Food Security and Bioenergy Production.- Chapter 3. Present Scenario and Status of Bioenergy Sources and Production System.- Chapter 4. Perennial Forage cropping system and Bioenergy production.- Chapter 5. Engineering Interventions for High Biofuel Production in Forage Crops.- Chapter 6. Potential Bioenergy Forage Crops for Degraded Lands.- Chapter 7. Perennial forage crops: biodiversity and ecosystems service in barren land.- Chapter 8. Strategies to Enhance Biomass Production in Forage Crops Under Challenging Environments.- Chapter 9. Forage Sorghum: Potential Feedstock for Bioenergy.- Chapter 10. Forage maize as source of cellulosic biofuel production.- Chapter 11. Napier grass - A Potential Source of Bioenergy.- Chapter 12. Switch Grass as Model Crop for Biofuel Production.- Part-II : Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Prospect.- Chapter 13. Cell Wall Digestibility, Diversity and Complexity for Developing Second Generation Bioenergy Crops.- Chapter 14. C: N Ratio and Its Importance in Developing Effective Bioenergy Crops.- Chapter 15. Carbon Partitioning, and Resource Use Efficiency for Enhancing Biofuel Production.- Chapter 16. Morphological and Physiological Traits for High Bioenergy Production in Biofuel Crops.- Chapter 17. Molecular Perspectives for Biofuel Production in Forage Crops.- Chapter 18. Omics Approaches for Efficient Bioenergy Forage Crop.- Part-III : Intellectual property and future prospects of bioenergy.- Chapter 19. Economics, Intellectual Property and Environmental Aspects of Bioenergy and Their Commercial Utilization.- Chapter 20. Scope and Future Prospectus of Third Generation Bioenergy Fuel.