The inventors of automotive engines had in mind running them with farm-grown energy sources, explains Singh (Fort Valley State U., Georgia), but the discovery and production of cheap petroleum crippled that source for a century. Now petroleum depletion and environmental concerns have given it new life. Scientists mostly in agriculture related fields, but some in chemistry and other disciplines, present a broad reference or textbook on growing algae and plants to produce fuel. Among the topics are biofuels in history, microalgae taxonomy and breeding, cell wall structure and novel manipulation strategies, elephant grass, oilseed brassicas, willow, eucalyptus and bamboo, and phytoremediation trees for biofuel. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)