Feedstocks for Cellulosic Ethanol Production

Analysis of sugarcane × Saccharum spontaneum progeny for sugar and biomass traits

“…Recent decades have seen important changes in some sugarcane mills from solely producing sucrose and molasses to a multi-purpose operation to include other value-added products. Thus, apart from burning, bagasse can also be used to produce cellulosic ethanol or other biofuels (Amarasekara, 2014;Carvalho-Netto et al, 2014). The potential of this new discovery has sparked substantial investment in this technology in countries such as the United States, Canada, Brazil, and the European Union since its efficiency will be even greater when compared with the current technology of producing ethanol from sucrose (Aguiar et al, 2015).…”