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Next Generation Biofuel Production in the Omics Era: Potential and Prospects

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The surging global population has led to an ever-increasing demand for fossil fuel, and as a result, fossil fuel reserves are depleting sharply and negatively impacting environmental health. The quest for sustainable environmental friendly fuels has presented us renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and biofuels after two decades of research. The usage of biofuels as an alternative fuel has picked up pace in many countries with an aim for sustainable development. However, global production remains a big challenge due to various reasons associated with their sustainable production. Furthermore, omics technology like genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics has generated quantum of information of biological organisms and their associated pathways in differential interaction with their environment. The deciphering of molecular information associated in biofuel-producing organisms with these technologies is still in its incipient stage. A sustainable production of biofuels might be accomplished by the contribution of information generated with the application of these technologies. The researchers are on course for utilizing this information for understanding molecular mechanism involved in biofuel production. This chapter presents the status of global biofuel production and application of different omics technologies.

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  1. Department of Botany, Nalanda College, Patliputra University, Patna, Bihar, India

    Sumit Kumar

  2. Department of Life Science, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India

    Naveen Kumar Singh

  3. Department of Botany, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Anirudh Kumar

  4. Seribiotech Research Laboratory (SBRL), Kodathi, Carmelram Post, Bangalore, India

    Pawan Shukla

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  2. Department of Life Science, Central University of Karnataka, School of Life Science, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India

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Kumar, S., Singh, N.K., Kumar, A., Shukla, P. (2021). Next Generation Biofuel Production in the Omics Era: Potential and Prospects. In: Kumar, A., Kumar, R., Shukla, P., Patel, H.K. (eds) Omics Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture and Global Food Security (Vol II). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2956-3_11

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