Halophytes

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News

• Making the desert bloom - with fuel-yielding plants 16 January 2007 from flightglobal.com. "A NASA scientist is confident that commercial aircraft could be powered using a type of biofuel derived from saltwater plants (halophytes), grown in desert areas and irrigated using sea water.

Publications

• Halophytes for Sustainable Biosalinie Farming Systems in the Middle East by Abdullah Jaradat; Alsharhan, A.A. Et Al. Editors. A.A. Balkema/Swets & Zeitlinger, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Desertification For The Third Millennium. 2003. P. 187-203.
• Energy crops and bioenergy for rescuing deserting coastal area by desalination: feasibility study by David Chiaramonti, Herbert-Peter Grimmb, Nasir El Bassamc and Manuel Cendagortad; Bioresource Technology Volume 72, Issue 2 , April 2000, Pages 131-146.

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Biodiesel feedstocks: Currently in use: Animal fat | Castor beans | Coconut oil | Jatropha | Jojoba | Karanj | Palm oil | Rapeseed | Soybeans | Sunflower seed | Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) Currently in research and development: Algae | Halophytes (Salt-tolerant plants) Ethanol feedstocks: First-generation: Cassava | Corn | Milo | Nypa palm | Sorghum | Sugar beets | Sugar cane | Sugar palm |Sweet potato | Waste citrus peels | Wheat | Whey Second-generation: For cellulosic technology - Grasses: Miscanthus, Prairie grasses, Switchgrass | Trees: Hybrid poplar, Mesquite, Willow Charcoal feedstocks: Bamboo | Wood Waste-to-energy (MSW)

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