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Under the pressure of a world-wide crisis in nutrition, raw materials and energy, a new field of research has evolved which attempts, through interdisciplinary cooperation, to promote the production of economically convertible ‘biomass’ rapidly and effectively using modern biotechnological methods. Biomass is defined as all organic material produced by living things. Biomass has potential uses as food, as raw material for economically important products and as an energy source.
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Schwarzenbach, F.H., Hegetschweiler, T. (1982). Wood as biomass for energy: results of a problem analysis. In: Mislin, H., Bachofen, R. (eds) New Trends in Research and Utilization of Solar Energy through Biological Systems. EXS 43: Experientia Supplementum, vol 43. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6305-6_5
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