Potential Alcohol Production from Beta Vulgaris Genotypes as Affected by Nitrogen Level and Water Stress

Carter, J.N. and Doney, D.L. and Theurer, J.C. (1983) Potential Alcohol Production from Beta Vulgaris Genotypes as Affected by Nitrogen Level and Water Stress. Journal of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists. 21(4):324-344.

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Abstract

Present and future world shortages and increasing
petroleum costs have stimulated the search for alternate
renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Sugarbeets (Beta
vulgaris L.) and sugarcane (Saccharum app.) have high potential
as a feedstock for conversion to alcohol as a practical renewable
energy source. Sugarbeets have many desirable characteristics
such as: storage of 40 to 50% of their dry matter
as fermentable sugars (6, 7, 15); a small nitrogen (N) requirement
per unit of sugar produced (2, 5, 7); a range of related
Beta vulgaris genotypes which may be used to increase yield
potential (7, 8); use of by-products as a cattle feed or conversion
to methane (6, 7); and wide adaptation within the U.S.
(19). They can also be stored up to 6 months in cool areas,
all of which make them a primary feedstock source for alcohol
production.

Item Type:	Article
NWISRL Publication Number:	0516
Subjects:	Irrigated crops > Sugarbeet Mass Import - autoclassified (may be erroneous)
Depositing User:	Dan Stieneke
Date Deposited:	20 Nov 2010 21:52
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2017 23:30
Item ID:	408
URI:	https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/408