Development and Utilization of herbaceous energy plants

With the reduction of energy, energy plant as a kind of renewable resource is attracting people's more attention. Development of energy plant as the supplement and substitute of existing energy source can gradually relax energy crisis and accord with the trend of sustainable development because of its low production cost and benefit for environment. Herbaceous plant has great potentialities as the energy plant due to its various species, rapid growth and extensive adaptability. An overview on the current research situation and perspective were presented on producing fuel alcohol and biodiesel by herbaceous energy plants, and utilization of wild, semiwild herbaceous energy plants.