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Regulations needed to identify potentially invasive biofuel crops
2014-08-08 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: If the hottest new plant grown as a biofuel crop is approved based solely on its greenhouse gas emission profile, its potential as the next invasive species may not be discovered until it's too late. In response to this need to prevent such invasions, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed both a set of regulatory definitions and provisions and a list of 49 low-risk biofuel plants from which growers can choose. Lauren Quinn, an invasive plant ecologist at U of I's Energy Biosciences...
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