Salinity and drought tolerance

The major crops for the first-generation biofuels ethanol and biodiesel are rapeseed, soybean, sunflower, oil palm, sugarcane, sugarbeet and maize. The ability to grow these crops in low moisture and saline conditions would relieve the pressure that biofuels have on prime agricultural land.

Fig. 8.30. The effect of light intensity on growth and carbon dioxide assimilation by plants.