Genomics of Bioenergy Crops

Abstract

As the world population is increasing day by day, thus, the need to produce large amount of energy is also increasing. Therefore, the hunt for a renewable and cheap source of energy has become a huge challenge in modern times. Plants are always been used as a cost-effective and renewable source of energy; thus, for the continuation of this, it has become crucial to constantly improve their biomass growth and quality through genome sequencing. Research on a plant genomics will help us to produce bioenergy crops. The understanding of microbial conversion is also important as it can design new strains or enzymes that will be capable of producing biofuels and bioproducts through plant biomass. The liquid fuels and chemical products that we use today are obtained from fossil resources. Thus, the production of fuels and bioproducts from plant biomass will help us to become less dependent on fossils.