The expanding interest in new crops and new uses world wide has been energized as a result of the realization that biofuels and biobased products will play a key role in the search for energy independence as well as providing increased opportunities for farmers in the United States of America and, indeed, the world over. New Crops have long been considered part of a broad strategy to increase farmers’ income and to diversify risks as well as to increase agricultural productivity, so necessary in a world faced by expanding populations. In the past, the pleas of new crop scientists have often been politely ignored but this is no longer the case. As a result, of the quest for energy independence, new crop workers in all fields are finally being considered key players in the agricultural research community, a need that we have felt is long overdue.

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