Duckweed Is a Promising Feedstock of Biofuels: Advantages and Approaches

With the growing scarcity of traditional sources of energy and the accompanying acute environmental challenges, biofuels based on biomass are favored as the most promising alternative. As one of the core raw materials for biomass energy, research on its production methods and synthesis mechanisms is...

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Published inInternational journal of molecular sciences Vol. 23; no. 23; p. 15231
Main Author Yang, Gui-Li
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 03.12.2022
MDPI
Subjects
Accumulation
Agricultural production
Alternative energy sources
Aquatic plants
Araceae
Biodiesel fuels
Biofuels
Biomass
Biomass energy
Biomass energy production
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Carbon
Cellulose
Climate change
Competition
Crops
Duckweed
Efficiency
Energy industry
energy plants
Energy sources
Environmental impact
Enzymes
Ethanol
Food
Glucose
Industrial development
Metabolism
Nitrogen
pathway
Production methods
Raw materials
Review
Sewage
Starch
Starch - metabolism
pathway
biomass
energy plants
starch
duckweed
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Summary:With the growing scarcity of traditional sources of energy and the accompanying acute environmental challenges, biofuels based on biomass are favored as the most promising alternative. As one of the core raw materials for biomass energy, research on its production methods and synthesis mechanisms is emerging. In recent years, duckweed has been used as a high-quality new biomass feedstock for its advantages, including fast biomass accumulation, high starch content, high biomass conversion efficiency, and sewage remediation. This study provides a systematic review of the growth characteristics, starch metabolism pathways, and methods to improve starch accumulation in the new energy plant, duckweed. The study also presents a prospect that might be used as a reference for the development of duckweed as a new energy-providing plant.
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ISSN:1422-0067
1661-6596
1422-0067
DOI:10.3390/ijms232315231