Development and use of bioenergy feedstocks for semi-arid and arid lands
Abstract
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 productivitymore »
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- 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
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1265707
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; SC0008834
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Experimental Botany
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 66; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-0957
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 09 BIOMASS FUELS; semi-arid lands; Opuntia; Agave; arid land; s bioenergy feedstocks; ethanol; renewable energy
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Cushman, John C., Davis, Sarah C., Yang, Xiaohan, and Borland, Anne M. Development and use of bioenergy feedstocks for semi-arid and arid lands. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1093/jxb/erv087.
Cushman, John C., Davis, Sarah C., Yang, Xiaohan, & Borland, Anne M. Development and use of bioenergy feedstocks for semi-arid and arid lands. United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv087
Cushman, John C., Davis, Sarah C., Yang, Xiaohan, and Borland, Anne M. Wed .
"Development and use of bioenergy feedstocks for semi-arid and arid lands". United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv087. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1265707.
@article{osti_1265707,
title = {Development and use of bioenergy feedstocks for semi-arid and arid lands},
author = {Cushman, John C. and Davis, Sarah C. and Yang, Xiaohan and Borland, Anne M.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1093/jxb/erv087},
journal = {Journal of Experimental Botany},
number = 14,
volume = 66,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
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