1. Bioenergy and its Global Potential 2. Identifying High Yielding Biomass Crops 3. Controls of Miscanthus Productivity 4. Environmental Sustainability of Miscanthus 5. Breeding to Improve Miscanthus 6. Commercial Uses of Miscanthus Biomass 7. Policies and Markets: the Future for Miscanthus
Michael B. Jones is Emeritus Professor of Botany at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Ireland.
"The book Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production provides an
accessible succinct summary of a large body of research over three
decades that started in the late 80s in Denmark and Germany. Mike
Jones, one of the scientists involved in the conception of several
key EU projects in the 1990s, is a global authority on C4
photosynthesis in perennial grasses. He was part of the delegation
in the early 2000s that helped kick-start the large public and
private programmes in the US. The chapters in the book progress
from the global needs for biomass, the basic biology of Miscanthus
and its productive potential and environmental sustainability.
Recent developments in breeding and commercial deployment are
reviewed with the latest literature and draw also on his personal
interactions with those in the global community performing
experiments at the different scales to develop the technology
pipelines. In the preface he wrote, ‘as scientists we are
increasingly encouraged to engage productively with people that
make policy’. The final chapter discusses the complex policy
choices needed to ensure the markets are developed and concludes
with future prospects for making a significant biomass contribution
to greenhouse gas mitigation in a time when urgent action on
climate change is imperative to avert disaster."
John Clifton-Brown, Professor, Institute of Biological,
Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University
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