The place of halophytes in Pakistan’s biofuel industry

摘要: An unsustainable supply of fossil fuel necessitates the need to look for suitable alternatives. One solution lies in using plant biomass, which can be converted into a wide range biofuels. To avoid conflict between feed and fuel, crops available human consumption being used presently as biofuel feedstock may replaced with halophytes, have potential thrive saline lands irrigated brackish water; some even tolerate seawater salinity. This approach will help producing sustainable without encroaching on good quality land water resources needed food crops. A candidate species should preferably perennial, having high yield minimum inputs. Other attributes include cellulose/hemicellulose >25–30%, lignin <10%, low salt load foliage non-invasive nature. The unexplored aspects agronomy these wild plants careful study, especially regards degradation ecological consequences, before large-s...