New technology will enable the US to increase the production of biofuels rapidly without jeopardising food output, the biotech industry said yesterday, Clive Cookson reports from Atlanta .
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.
