Feedstock Production for Biofuel under Global Change

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Feedstock Production for Biofuel under Global
Change

• Yiqi Luo
• Department of Botany and Microbiology
• University of Oklahoma

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Link biofuel production to global change
Global change
Biofuel production
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Research Questions

• What is feedstock production potential under
  different global change scenarios?
• How does global change affect feedstock
  production?

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Oklahoma needs

• Climate and location are suitable for feedstock
  production
• Switchgrass is a regional fast-growing bioenergy
  crop curb CO2 emissions and strengthen
  Oklahoma's farm economy
• Preliminary results

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Existing Strengths

• Warming experiments
• Preliminary data

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Warming experiments
Long-term 7-yearsWarming 2oCClipping Yearly
One year, step changeWarming 4oC
Precipitation doubled
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Preliminary data
Feedstock production and soil C loss
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Plant response to warming and clipping
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Research Team

• Yiqi Luo Ecosystem carbon balance
• Linda Wallace Plant productivity
• Lee Krumholz Microbial genomics
• Bradley Stevenson Microbial ecology
• Joe Zhou Microbial diversity

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Contributions to future science in Oklahoma

• Enhance research capability in biofuel production
  and global change
• Strengthen Graduate, undergraduate, and post-doc
  training
• Increase Oklahoma biofual business under
  anticipatory global change.
• Enhance capability of ecosystem service

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Thanks you!