Biodiesel from Abandoned Land in the Southeast US (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Biodiesel from Abandoned Land in the Southeast US

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Researchers are engineering sugarcane into a more productive, oil-producing plant that can grow in cooler climes. If their work proceeds as expected, growers will be able to meet 147 percent of the US mandate for renewable fuels with the modified sugarcane, the team reports. This crop could grow on abandoned land in the southeastern United States (about 20 percent of the green zone on the map).

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