Development and use of bioenergy feedstocks for semi-arid and arid lands

Cushman, John C.; Davis, Sarah C.; Yang, Xiaohan; Borland, Anne M.

doi:10.1093/jxb/erv087

Title: Development and use of bioenergy feedstocks for semi-arid and arid lands

Journal Article · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of Experimental Botany

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv087· OSTI ID:1265707

Cushman, John C. ^[1]; Davis, Sarah C. ^[2]; Yang, Xiaohan ^[3]; Borland, Anne M. ^[4]

Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States). Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States). Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs and Dept. of Environmental and Plant Biology
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Biosciences Division
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Biosciences Division; Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom). School of Biology

Here we report that global climate change is predicted to increase heat, drought, and soil-drying conditions, and thereby increase crop sensitivity to water vapour pressure deficit, resulting in productivity losses. Increasing competition between agricultural freshwater use and municipal or industrial uses suggest that crops with greater heat and drought durability and greater water-use efficiency will be crucial for sustainable biomass production systems in the future. Agave (Agavaceae) and Opuntia (Cactaceae) represent highly water-use efficient bioenergy crops that could diversify bioenergy feedstock supply yet preserve or expand feedstock production into semi-arid, abandoned, or degraded agricultural lands, and reclaim drylands. Agave and Opuntia are crassulacean acid metabolism species that can achieve high water-use efficiencies and grow in water-limited areas with insufficient precipitation to support traditional C₃ or C₄ bioenergy crops. Both Agave and Opuntia have the potential to produce above-ground biomass rivalling that of C₃ and C₄ crops under optimal growing conditions. The low lignin and high amorphous cellulose contents of Agave and Opuntia lignocellulosic biomass will be less recalcitrant to deconstruction than traditional feedstocks, as confirmed by pretreatments that improve saccharification of Agave. Refined environmental productivity indices and geographical information systems modelling have provided estimates of Agave and Opuntia biomass productivity and terrestrial sequestration of atmospheric CO₂; however, the accuracy of such modelling efforts can be improved through the expansion of field trials in diverse geographical settings. Lastly, we note that life cycle analysis indicates that Agave would have productivity, life cycle energy, and greenhouse gas balances comparable or superior to those of traditional bioenergy feedstocks, but would be far more water-use efficient.

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