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Biofuel production on the margins

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An analysis shows that fuel made from wild, herbaceous vegetation grown on land currently unsuitable for cultivating field crops could contribute substantially to the United States' targets for biofuel production. See Letter p.514

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Figure 1: Wild biofuel crops.

G. W P. ROBERTSON, MICHIGAN STATE UNIV. W. K. KELLOGG BIOLOGICAL STATION

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion2 were published online on 16 January 2013.

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  1. Klaus Butterbach-Bahl and Ralf Kiese are at the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 82467, Germany.,

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  2. K.B.-B. is also at the International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.,

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Butterbach-Bahl, K., Kiese, R. Biofuel production on the margins. Nature 493, 483–484 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11853

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