This first generation of biofuels has had to face sharp criticisms ... five billion gallons of ethanol from domestically grown maize, and Brazil used sugar cane for a comparable volume (Herrera ...

Purdue University scientists have helped identify and group the genes thought to be responsible for cell wall development in maize, an effort that expands their ability to discover ways to produce the ...

Fans of biofuels give the impression we could soon be running cars on maize, producing electricity with sugar, and getting power from palm oil. Even though the biofuel boom is only just beginning ...

Friends of the Earth’s biofuels campaigner Robbie Blake called ... and that 60% of every hectare of maize planted for ethanol will come at the expense of using that land to grow food crops.

There are some disadvantages to growing biofuel crops (such as sugar cane and maize) to be used as bioethanol. The demand for biofuel crops means greater demand on rainforest land. Crops grow ...

Like a tractor harvesting an Iowa cornfield, biofuel advocates aren't using a ... And, while that corn field may be a lovely shade of maize, the advocates are talking green, as in the money ...