An energy crop is a non-edible plant domesticated for use in agriculture, considered as a group (e.g., the farmers produced a bumper crop of pineapple guavas this year), or its non-edible produce as a harvest, to be used to make biofuels.

Biotechnology can be used to improve the plants, so they can yield more to produce biofuel, their cultivation cost less, uses less water, they are fast-growing or grow quicker.

Biobutanol

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Energy crops for biobutanol are grasses.

See also

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• Agricultural byproduct.
• Biobutanol.
• Biodiesel.
• Bioethanol.
• Switchgrass
• Vegoil.

External links

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• http://www.treepower.org/
• http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/bioen96/graham2.html
• http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=36456
• http://crop.scijournals.org/

Biofuels