India, like many countries, has high hopes for jatropha as a biofuel source, but little is known about how to make it a successful crop. Daemon Fairless digs for the roots of a new enthusiasm.
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See Editorial, page 637 . Daemon Fairless is this year's winner of the IDRC-Nature fellowship.
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Fairless, D. Biofuel: The little shrub that could - maybe. Nature 449, 652–655 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449652a
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