Breaking the Biological Barriers to Cellulosic Ethanol: A Joint Research
Agenda
A Research Roadmap Resulting from the Biomass to Biofuels Workshop, December
7–9, 2005, Rockville, Maryland
The Biomass to Biofuels Workshop, held December 7-9, 2005, was
convened by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental
Research in the Office of Science; and the Office of the Biomass
Program in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
The purpose was to define barriers and challenges to a rapid expansion of
cellulosic-ethanol production and determine ways to speed solutions
through concerted application of modern biology tools as part of a joint
research agenda. Although the focus was ethanol, the science applies to
additional fuels that include biodiesel and other bioproducts or coproducts
having critical roles in any deployment scheme.
Publication Date: June 2006
Suggested citation: U.S. DOE. 2006. Breaking the Biological Barriers to Cellulosic Ethanol: A Joint Research Agenda. Report from the December 2005 Workshop, DOE/SC-0095.
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
(www.genomicscience.energy.gov/biofuels/).
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