What is it about?
Factors, such as overpopulation, resource reduction and loss of biodiversity are considered most threatening for humanity and their interaction in the history of mankind are shortly revisited. These are the driving forces that led governments worldwide to the implementation of renewable energies. Here, an attempt has been made to overview the particular case of Jatropha curcas L. and explicit how the international scientific community has concertedly contributed to draw it from anonymity in just few years.
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Why is it important?
Among, the renewable energies that started to contribute to the energy grid, biofuels are considered as an obligate step.
Perspectives
It is expected that in a close future, J. curcas will contribute as an alternative biodiesel option to feed the energy grid and transport together with other industrial crops such as soybean, rape, sunflower, sugar cane, sugar beet, maize, etc.
Nicolas Carels
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
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This page is a summary of: The Birth of a New Energy Crop, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4806-8_1.
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