This book gives an overview of industrial crops, various issues related to industrial crops, crops and processes involved in generating energy in the form of heat and electricity as well as liquid fuel, ethanol production from sugar crops, grain crops and lignocellulosic crops and processes and byproducts produced, biodiesel production from oilseed crops, industrial oil types and their uses separate from biofuel, improvement of oilseed crops for industrial uses, characteristics of different crop starches and their appropriate uses for various applications other than ethanol production, research towards improving the quantity and quality of starch composition in plants, fibre and dye crops (cotton, bast fibres and dye crops), production and processing of cotton as well as research accomplishments in improving cotton fibre quality, important feedstock crops, manufacturing process from plant to products and various end uses for these fibres, plants that supply natural fibre dyes and process of fibre dyeing, crops that are the sources of rubber, gums, resins and waxes, important rubber crops (rubber tree and guayule) and their culture, breeding and quantitative and qualitative aspects of their latex, gums, resins and waxes and their sources as well as their trade, botanical insecticides and important insecticidal crops and their active ingredients as well as the prospects for using natural insecticides in pest control. The utilization of industrial crops for the generation of products to their deployment for such applications as the remediation of contaminated soils, the principles of plant-based remediation, the traits that make certain crops suited for such use and a description of these remedial crops are also highlighted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of Industrial Crops / Bharat P. Singh -- Bioenergy Industry Status and Prospects / Paul Chen, Yiqin Wan, Xiaoquan Wang, Yanling Cheng, Yuhuan Liu, Xiangyang Lin and Roger Ruan -- Heat and Power Generation by Gasification and Combustion / Ralph E.H. Sims -- Ethanol from Sugar Crops / Gillian Eggleston, Thomas Tew, Lee Panella and Thomas Klasson -- Ethanol from Grain Crops / Renyong Zhao, Xiaorong Wu, Scott Bean and Donghai Wang -- Ethanol from Lignocellulosic Crops / Kazuhiro Takamizawa, William Anderson and Hari P. Singh -- Biodiesel from Oilseed Crops / Dev Shrestha and Jon Van Gerpen -- Industrial Oil Types and Uses / Lou Honary -- Improvement of Industrial Oil Crops / Denis J. Murphy -- Starch Characterization, Variety and Application / Jay-lin Jane, Clodualdo C. Maningat and Rungtiwa Wongsagonsup -- In Planta Modification of Starch Quantity and Quality / Sarita Jaiswal, Seedhabadee Ganeshan, Monica Båga and Ravindra N. Chibbar -- Cotton Production, Processing and Uses of Cotton Raw Material / B. Todd Campbell and Lori Hinze -- Research in Cotton Fibre Improvement / Lorenzo Aleman and Randy D. Allen -- Bast Fibres : From Plants to Products / Jonathan Y. Chen and Frank Liu -- Bast Fibre Processing and Uses / Holger Fischer and Jörg Müssig -- Plant Dyes / R. Siva -- Natural Rubber / Hari P. Singh and Bharat P. Singh -- Guayule : Culture, Breeding and Rubber Production / Dennis T. Ray, Michael A. Foster, Terry A. Coffelt and Colleen McMahan -- Gums, Resins and Waxes / Enrico Casadei and Ben Chikamai -- Botanical Insecticides, Deterrents, Repellents and Oils / Murray B. Isman -- Principles of Plant-based Remediation of Contaminated Soils / Peter M. Kopittke, Enzo Lombi, Neal W. Menzies and Ravi Naidu -- Phytoremedial Crops and Current Research / Priya Padmanabhan and Shivendra V. Sahi.

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