Editorial Role of Metabolomics in Advancing Biofuel Research

摘要

There has been a significant research in the field of biofuels in the past few decades. Indeed, the advantage of biofuels over their conventional counterparts has been acknowledged globally. Several countries now have a mandatory ethanol blending policy in place which requires blending of ethanol in a certain percentage to gasoline. Till recent past, ethanol was being mainly derived from food grains and cane sugar. The advancements in technology now allow the production of cellulosic ethanol which is derived from nonfood and non-fodder sources of biomass. Besides, advanced fuels such as butanol and propanol are also being explored extensively, due to the advantages offered by them over ethanol, as fungible fuels.