GO88036 project was conducted at three universities: Arkansas State University, University of Arkansas and University of Georgia from 2009 to 2012, and University of Arkansas from 2012 to 2014. The funds were used at all three universities to build capacity: 1) infrastructure, such as purchase of laboratory equipment and laboratory set-up
and, 2) agronomic capabilities, including the establishment of field trials and acquisition of harvesting equipment. This infrastructure was critical to ramping bioenergy activities at all three universities. Thermochemical and biochemical conversion were investigated
algal, woody, annual and perennial herbaceous energy crops were established and monitored
educational and outreach events were organized
co-product production and extraction were investigated
and, the nutritional qualities of biorefinery coproducts were evaluated. Funding from this project enabled 15 graduate students to submit PhD or MSc level theses
publication of one book and six book chapters
generation of 19 published abstracts
production of three lay press articles
and, dissemination of 31 peer-reviewed articles in good quality scientific journals.