IGER Innovations 11, 2007

Director’s Introduction
Prof Mervyn Humphreys
Improvement of bioenergy crop quality
Iain Donnison, Edward Hodgson and Gordon Allison
Making bioenergy work
John Valentine, Chris Duller and Maurice Hinton-Jones
A future for UK grassland in energy production?
Andy Cairns, Joe Gallagher, Rob Hatch and Mervyn Humphreys
Asian elephant grass (Miscanthus) for bioenergy
John Clifton-Brown and John Valentine
Natural products and feedstocks from plants
Phil Morris and Robert Nash (Vastox Wales Ltd)
Biotransformation and fermentation – exploiting the rumen and silo
Dave Davies, Mike Theodorou and Jamie Newbold (Institute of Rural Sciences, University of Wales, Aberyswyth)
Biogas for agriculture
Phil Hobbs, Alastair Ward and Guillermo Pardo
The biorefining of biorenewables
Steve Fish
Environmental Implications of farming for bioenergy and biorenewables
Les Firbank
Commentaries
Bio-energy for a changing world
Jim Skea, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre
Biocomposites from crop fibres and resins
Paul A Fowler, J Mark Hughes and Robert M Elias, BioComposites Centre, University of Wales, Bangor