New technology will enable the US to increase the production of biofuels rapidly without jeopardising food output, the biotech industry said on Tuesday.
At the annual Biotechnology Industry Organisation’s meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, companies said they were poised to commercialise “advanced biofuels” made from cellulose. This comes from non-food crops such as fast-growing grasses or from inedible parts of food crops such as stalks and husks. Today’s biofuels come from edible starches and sugars, derived mainly from sugarcane and maize.
