Genetic Engineering: An Optimism for Sustainable Biofuel Production

Fossil fuel depletion, rising demand, and global climate change problems have motivated researchers to find alternative sources of renewable fuel. Biofuels offer a possible road to the avoidance of global market instability and environmental concerns resulting from traditional fossil fuels. Most biofuels are presently derived from starch or other carbohydrate from different sources, such as microbes, plants, algae, etc., in the form of ethanol. The quantity and sample preparation procedures involved, however, are quite costly. As an alternative genetic engineering organism, large quantities of raw products are produced, and the cost of sample preparation is also minimized by metabolic process alteration. Genomics methods encourage genetic selection approaches to give significant genetic improvement of organisms as biomass sources for biofuel generation. Genetic alteration of organisms offers a wide range of possibilities for improving biomass composition and helping generate biofuels and ensures a safe and environmentally friendly energy source. While there are considerable barriers to making biofuel generation cost-effective and on a large size to replace a large proportion of transporting petroleum, as well as potential environmental issues, they have been examined extensively.