Forage Crops in the Bioenergy Revolution

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singhal is a Scientist in the Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Uttar Pradesh, India. He received his PhD from Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India. He has eight years of experience in Plant Physiology, covering different aspects such as drought stress, seed priming, artificial night light pollution, and multiple abiotic stresses related to different crops. Currently he is working on the fodder oat and sorghum improvement, oat modeling for climate change, and abiotic stress in forage crops. He has published more than 80 research and review articles, and chapters in reputed journals.Dr. Indu Bachchan is a Scientist in the Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute. She completed her graduation from Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, post-graduation from Junagadh Agricultural University, Gujarat and PhD from Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, India. She has worked on various crops like mung bean, maize, forage sorghum and forage oat. Currently, she is working on the forage sorghum, multiple foliar disease resistance, fodder oat improvement, and abiotic stress in forage crops for climate change. She has published 15 research and review articles in reputed journals and ten book chapters. Dr. Ayman EL Sabagh is an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siirt University, Turkey. He graduated from Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt, and got his PhD from Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Japan in 2012, under the framework of a channel program of the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education. He studied the physiological approaches for enhancing stress tolerance of crop plants as a postdoctoral fellow at Hiroshima University, Japan. He researched at Cukurova University, Turkeyas a postdoctoral fellow funded by TÜBITAK-Turkey. Recently, he has been awarded as ‘Talented Young Scientist Program (TYSP)’ in Crop Research Institute of Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China . Dr. EL Sabagh works on sustainability, crop productivity and stress management under the current climatic era. He has published more than 100 research and review articles in peer-reviewed reputed journals and has contributed to books with 50 chapters at an international level.Dr. Krishna Kumar Dwivedi is an eminent scientist of international repute. He joined Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute as a Sr. Scientist in 2011. He has contributed significantly in the research area of forage biotechnology for Crop Improvement, especially in resolving the complexity of agriculturally important traits such as the apomixis. During his postdoctoral work, he isolated several seed and embryo sac specific promoters and submitted to Genbank under the accession (EU605873, HM035541, and GQ906798). Dr. Dwivedi has published more than 35 research articles, both in national and international reputed, peer-reviewed journals, and has contributed to 20 book chapters.

• Part-1 : Global Food Security, Bioenergy Production and Forage Crops.- Chapter 1. Global Food Security and Sustainable Development: An Overview.- Chapter 2. Global Food Security and Bioenergy Production.- Chapter 3. Present Scenario and Status of Bioenergy Sources and Production System.- Chapter 4. Perennial Forage cropping system and Bioenergy production.- Chapter 5. Engineering Interventions for High Biofuel Production in Forage Crops.- Chapter 6. Potential Bioenergy Forage Crops for Degraded Lands.- Chapter 7. Perennial forage crops: biodiversity and ecosystems service in barren land.- Chapter 8. Strategies to Enhance Biomass Production in Forage Crops Under Challenging Environments.- Chapter 9. Forage Sorghum: Potential Feedstock for Bioenergy.- Chapter 10. Forage maize as source of cellulosic biofuel production.- Chapter 11. Napier grass – A Potential Source of Bioenergy.- Chapter 12. Switch Grass as Model Crop for Biofuel Production.- Part-II : Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Prospect.- Chapter 13. Cell Wall Digestibility, Diversity and Complexity for Developing Second Generation Bioenergy Crops.- Chapter 14. C: N Ratio and Its Importance in Developing Effective Bioenergy Crops.- Chapter 15. Carbon Partitioning, and Resource Use Efficiency for Enhancing Biofuel Production.- Chapter 16. Morphological and Physiological Traits for High Bioenergy Production in Biofuel Crops.- Chapter 17. Molecular Perspectives for Biofuel Production in Forage Crops.- Chapter 18. Omics Approaches for Efficient Bioenergy Forage Crop.- Part-III : Intellectual property and future prospects of bioenergy.- Chapter 19. Economics, Intellectual Property and Environmental Aspects of Bioenergy and Their Commercial Utilization.- Chapter 20. Scope and Future Prospectus of Third Generation Bioenergy Fuel.