Sugar Beet, Energy Beet, and Industrial Beet

McGrath, J. Mitchell; Townsend, Belinda

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1447-0_5

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“…[1][2][3][4][5] Multiple crops have been independently bred to store high concentrations of sucrose in terminal storage organs, namely, the taproots of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.), and the stems of sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) and sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.). [5][6][7][8][9] However, the sucrose contents of these crops appear to be approaching maximal levels attainable from breeding efforts 10,11 ; therefore, new approaches are needed to increase sucrose accumulation in storage organs. Hence, characterizing the genes that function in sucrose transport and storage will reveal potential new targets for future manipulations to enhance crop yields.…”

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Tonoplast Sugar Transporters (SbTSTs) putatively control sucrose accumulation in sweet sorghum stems

Bihmidine

Julius

Dweikat

et al. 2016

Plant Signaling & Behavior

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Tonoplast Sugar Transporters (SbTSTs) putatively control sucrose accumulation in sweet sorghum stems

Bihmidine

Julius

Dweikat

et al. 2016

Plant Signaling & Behavior

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“…This crop's ability to store a lot of sucrose in its roots emphasizes its importance for agriculture (Choluj et al, 2004;Bouras et al, 2021). Sugar beet is a source to produce sugar (McGrath and Townsend, 2015). It has uses in many different production processes, and although not primarily used as a source of sucrose, it has relatively diverse uses (Mall et al, 2021).…”

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Irrigation and Mineral Fertilizer Effects on Physical Properties of Light Chestnut Soil Used in the Cultivation of Sugar Beet (Beta Vulgaris L.)

BASTAUBAYEVA¹,

AMANGALIEV²,

ZHUSSUPBEKOV³

et al. 2023

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This work studied the effect of irrigation and mineral fertilizers on the physical properties of light chestnut soil used in cultivating sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.). The experiment happened in 2021 on an irrigated field with an area of 2 ha in the territory of the Kazakh Research Institute of Agriculture and Plant Growing, District Karasai, Almaty region, Kazakhstan. A sugar beet hybrid (obtained from domestic selection ‘Aksu’ and foreign selection ‘Yampol’) cultivation used four levels of mineral fertilizers, i.e., 0:0:0 (control), 90:90:60, 120:120:90, and 150:150:120 NPK kg ha-1. During the sugar beet growing season, all periods of observations recorded an increase in the bulk density in the upper, middle, and lower soil layers, from 1.14–1.27 g/cm3 to 1.31–1.48 g/cm3. The content of agronomically valuable aggregates in 0–10 cm, 10–20 cm, and 20–30 cm soil layers decreased from the germination phase to harvesting of sugar beet in extensive technology (10.0%–15.7%) and intensive technologies (2.3%–13.1%). In these soil layers, the number of water-stable aggregates decreased from the beginning of renewal to the end of the growing season of sugar beet in technology without the use of fertilizers (2.9%–6.4%) and in technologies with the application of mineral fertilizers (1.6%–7.6%). In the soil layers, the noted highest content of productive moisture occurred in the phase of closing the leaves in the rows with the extensive technology of sugar beet cultivation (51.5–213.2 mm). Irrigation during the sugar beet growing season reduces the content of agronomically-valuable and water-stable aggregates in soil layers to the minimum values for harvesting in technology without the use of fertilizers (50.5%–54.4% and 12.9%–14.2%) and technology with the use of mineral fertilizers (52.3%–54.4% and 10.9%–13.5%), respectively.

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“…High‐sugar feedstocks, such as sugarbeets, sugarcane, and sweet sorghum, are potential advanced biofuel feedstock candidates . The energy beet, a member of the beet family ( Beta vulgaris ), is a hybrid sugarbeet that has been genetically engineered in various parts of USA to yield higher amounts of raw sugar, or industrial‐grade sugar, without concern for impurities that would tarnish the quality of food‐grade sugar . Although energy beets are specific to the USA, sugarbeets are used in Europe for ethanol and sugar production .…”

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“…There is potential to ferment whole or crushed energy beets, or extracted juices, into ethanol. Similar to distiller's grains from corn ethanol, energy beet fermentation provides additional co‐products such as pulp, that may be sold as livestock feed, and stillage powder for thermal heat generation . Energy beet trial results show that it is possible to produce 7.16 m 3 ha −1 of ethanol using energy beets compared to 4.1 m 3 ha −1 of corn .…”

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Costs of joint production of ethanol and industrial sugar juice using energy beets in the Northern Plains of the United States

Wamisho

Ripplinger

Laporte

2015

Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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This study evaluates the economic feasibility and profi tability of producing industrial sugar juice and ethanol using energy beets in the Northern Plains of the United States. An enterprise budget is constructed to estimate the breakeven price of energy beets that triggers farmers to produce the crop. This breakeven price is used to estimate the long-run breakeven prices for industrial sugar juice and ethanol. Stochastic models are developed to account for price and parameter variability in the estimation of enterprise budgets and breakeven prices. Results show that the simulated breakeven price of producing ethanol is 518 $m -3 and that of industrial sugar juice is 351 $t -1 , using a 36 $t -1 breakeven delivered cost of energy beets. Energy beet ethanol investment could be profi table at the breakeven prices of energy beets and ethanol computed, and could attract new capital investment into the ethanol industry.

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Sugar Beet, Energy Beet, and Industrial Beet

Cited by 15 publications

References 90 publications

Tonoplast Sugar Transporters (SbTSTs) putatively control sucrose accumulation in sweet sorghum stems

Tonoplast Sugar Transporters (SbTSTs) putatively control sucrose accumulation in sweet sorghum stems

Irrigation and Mineral Fertilizer Effects on Physical Properties of Light Chestnut Soil Used in the Cultivation of Sugar Beet (Beta Vulgaris L.)

Costs of joint production of ethanol and industrial sugar juice using energy beets in the Northern Plains of the United States

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