{"id":984,"date":"2017-12-15T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T08:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/?p=984"},"modified":"2017-12-15T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T08:59:40","slug":"sorghum-cultivars-developed-university-florida-can-produce-thousands-gallons-ethanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2017\/12\/15\/sorghum-cultivars-developed-university-florida-can-produce-thousands-gallons-ethanol\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorghum cultivars developed at the University of Florida can produce thousands of gallons of ethanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">Keywords: Sorghum, Ethanol<\/div>\n<div id=\"detailbox\" class=\"post-content\">Sweet sorghum is not just for breakfast anymore. Sorghum is a source for table syrup. Scientists see a future in which we convert sorghum to biofuel, rather than relying on fossil fuel. That potential just grew as University of Florida researchers found three UF\/IFAS-developed sorghum varieties could produce up to 1,000 gallons of ethanol per acre.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\u201cSweet sorghum has the potential to be an effective feedstock for ethanol production,\u201d said Wilfred Vermerris. He is a UF\/IFAS professor of microbiology and cell science and a co-author on the study.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">Ethanol produced from sweet sorghum can be used for auto and jet fuel, UF\/IFAS researchers said.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">UF\/IFAS researchers picture big fuel potential from sorghum partly because it\u2019s so abundant. Sorghum is the fifth largest cereal crop in the world and the third largest in the United States. Department of Agriculture. In 2014, the U.S. was the largest producer of sorghum in the world.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">UF\/IFAS scientists like sorghum because it can be cultivated twice a year in Florida. It requ<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ires little <a class=\"anchor\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.agropages.com\/CompanyDirectory\/CList-2-----1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fertilizer<\/a> , use<\/span>s water efficiently and can be drought resistant, UF\/IFAS research shows.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">For a newly published study, UF\/IFAS scientists wanted to see if they could use the three sweet sorghum cultivars as raw material for bioethanol production.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">Eulogio Castro is a former visiting assistant professor at UF\/IFAS and lead author of the study. He worked with UF\/IFAS researchers to grow the sorghum cultivars at the UF\/IFAS Plant Science Research and Education Unit in Citra, Florida. Castro is now a researcher at the University of Ja\u00e9n in Spain.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">Once researchers grew and harvested the sorghum, they took it to the UF\/IFAS Stan Mayfield Biorefinery Pilot Plant in Perry, Florida. There, they processed the crop and collected the sugar-rich juice from the stems. That could be directly fermented to fuel ethanol. The bagasse \u2014 the dry, pulpy residue left after extracting the juice from the plant \u2014 was processed to generate an additional source of fermentable sugars that could also be converted to ethanol.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">They found potential for the crop to produce up to 1,000 gallons ethanol per acre from the combined juice and bagasse-derived sugars.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">The new study is published in the journal Industrial Crops &amp; Products.<br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><br data-filtered=\"filtered\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-meta\"><b>Source:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>University of Florida<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keywords: Sorghum, Ethanol Sweet sorghum is not just for breakfast anymore. Sorghum is a source for table syrup. Scientists see a future in which we convert sorghum to biofuel, rather than relying on fossil fuel. That potential just grew as University of Florida researchers found three UF\/IFAS-developed sorghum varieties could produce up to 1,000 gallons&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2017\/12\/15\/sorghum-cultivars-developed-university-florida-can-produce-thousands-gallons-ethanol\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sorghum cultivars developed at the University of Florida can produce thousands of gallons of ethanol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sorghum cultivars developed at the University of Florida can produce thousands of gallons of ethanol - agrinoon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2017\/12\/15\/sorghum-cultivars-developed-university-florida-can-produce-thousands-gallons-ethanol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sorghum cultivars developed at the University of Florida can produce thousands of gallons of ethanol - agrinoon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Keywords: Sorghum, Ethanol Sweet sorghum is not just for breakfast anymore. 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