Scientists sustained that tobacco leaf can produce biofuel, a solid substance of biological origin that is used as a fuel.

They found that a special sort of tobacco could be used to help to solve the state’s energy crisis, only by modifying it genetically for to be used as a biofuel.

So, the golden tobacco is another important alternative like switchgrass and algae which can produce energy for all inhabitants.
Scientists are sure that utilizing tobacco would be very favorable because it would not influence the main U.S. food source, not like other biofuels which can be made from soybeans, corn, and other cereals.

But there’s no bother here about secondhand smoke because tobacco wouldn’t be burned for to give power to vehicles, from it will be extracted its sugars and oils only.

Tobacco is a plant which can generate energy because it can produce a large amount of sugar and oil which can be more efficiently than other cereals, explained Vyacheslav Andrianov, one of a researcher at the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories.

After a lot of investigations, researchers have found a better way how to raise the oil in the tobacco plant’s leaves finally. They discovered that modifying it genetically then the plant could produce as much as twenty times more oil.

“Of course tobacco could have good results. In general any plant is a possible source of biofuel. I’m informed that farms which cultivate tobacco have been attacked hard recently and these findings can be a new chance for some of those tobacco farmers,” said Matt Hartwig, a representative for the Renewable Fuels Association.

Profitable use of tobacco as a biofuel can be more than five years away, but tobacco farmers look eager to the probabilities, said Andrianov, an assistant professor of cancer biology at the university’s Jefferson Medical College.

“There are other cereals and crops that can be utilized and the new idea of tobacco is that it’s not a crop which can be eaten. I got a lot of answers from farmers that would desire to expand tobacco in their fields that are not used right now by any crop,” Andrianov explained.

In general tobacco productivity has fallen approximately 1.5 percent worldwide over the past 10 years only because anti-smoking legislations, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

For example the tobacco production in U.S. has dropped by almost 39 percent during that same period because of the federal buyout new program which forced all tobacco farmers to start to grow other crops instead tobacco.

By Sara Norton, Staff Writer. Copyright © 2010 Cigarette-Store.org. All rights reserved.