Plant Biomass Conversion Book

Contributors.

Preface.

1 The Bioeconomy: A New Era of Products Derived from Renewable Plant-Based Feedstocks (Peter Nelson, Elizabeth Hood, and Randall Powell).

2 Agricultural Residues (James Hettenhaus).

3 Growing Systems for Traditional and New Forest-Based Materials (Randall Rousseau, Janet Hawkes, Shijie Liu, and Tom Amidon).

4 Dedicated Herbaceous Energy Crops (Keat (Thomas) Teoh, Shivakumar Pattada Devaiah, Deborah Vicuna Requesens, and Elizabeth E. Hood).

5 Municipal Solid Waste as a Biomass Feedstock (David J. Webster).

6 Water Sustainability in Biomass Cropping Systems (Jennifer L. Bouldin and Rodney E. Wright).

7 Soil Sustainability Issues in Energy Crop Production (V. Steven Green).

8 Fermentation Organisms for 5-and 6-Carbon Sugars (Nicholas Dufour, Jeffrey Swana, and Reeta P. Rao).

9 Pretreatment Options (Bradley A. Saville).

10 Enzyme Production Systems for Biomass Conversion (John A. Howard, Zivko Nikolov, and Elizabeth E. Hood).

11 Fermentation-Based Biofuels (Randy Kramer and Helene Belanger).

12 Biobased Chemicals and Polymers (Randall W. Powell, Clare Elton, Ross Prestidge, and Helene Belanger).

13 Carbon Offset Potential of Biomass-Based Energy (Gauri-Shankar Guha).

14 Biofuel Economics (Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer, Brad Holmes, Blake A. Simmons, and Harvey W. Blanch).

Index.