supported by grants from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Project , China (2013QC042);the Fundamental Research Funds for the 111 Project of Ministry of Education of China (B08032);the Starting Foundation for Changjiang Scholars Program of Ministry of Education of China (52204-14004)
Among the potential non-food energy crops,the sugar-rich C4 grass sweet sorghum and the biomass-rich Miscanthus are increasingly considered as two leading candidates.Here,we outline the biological traits of these ener...