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Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Bioenergy and agricultural research for development by Ortiz, Rodomiro, Crouch, Jonathon H., Iwanaga, Masa, Sayre, Ken, Warburton, Marilyn L., Arous, José Luis, Dixon, John, Bohn, Martin, Reddy, Belum V. S., Ramesh, S., Wani, Suhas P.

“…Converting agriculture to produce energy as well as food has become an important and well-funded global research goal as petroleum reserves fall and fuel prices rise. But the use of crop biomass—both grain and other plant parts—as a raw material for bioenergy production may compete with food and feed supplies and remove valuable plant residues that help sustain soil productivity and structure and avoid erosion. …”
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