Bioenergy: Challenges Ahead and Future

Plasmonic nanorod probes’ journey inside plant cells for in vivo SERS sensing and multimodal imaging

“…There is a strong need to increase bioenergy production considering the rising global demand for energy and that biomass generated energy contributes to 50% of renewable energy production. 1 Biofuels can be produced more efficiently by genetically transforming plants to overexpress or supress expression of certain biomarkers in pathways such as the flowering or lignin producing pathways. 2,3 Standard procedures for examining plant genetic markers such as PCR are not able to acquire information in real time with adequate temporal or spatial resolution and are furthermore destructive to the plant tissue.…”