• The sustainability potential of global biomass for energy is widely recognized. For example, the annual global primary production of biomass is equivalent to the 4,500 EJ (1 EJ=1018 J) of solar energy captured each year.
• Obtaining bioenergy from plants could help to alleviate the effects of global warming and energy safety problems. In USA, the biomass power industry reduces carbon emissions by more than 30 million tons each year.
• The sustainable use of biomass as an energy source requires comprehensive management of natural resources such as land and water. Unsustainable biomass production would erode the climate-related environmental advantage of bioenergy.
• Currently, the amount of land devoted to growing energy crops for biomass fuels is only 0.19% of the world’s total land area and only 0.5-1.7% of global agricultural land. According to estimations, a mere 10% increase in the efficiency of biomass production through irrigation, manufacturing, fertilizing or improved management through the cultivation of idle land, would create energy equivalent to the total current global energy demand [Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences].
• Biomass market lacks methods and standards for monitoring feedstock quality, which adds to the costs  of collection, transportation, and storage of feedstock to the site of power plants.

• Global biomass power capacity will reach minimum 86 GW globally by 2021 from 58 GW in 2011, which represents a staggering growth of almost 50% [Pike Research].
• Total investment in the biomass sector between 2008 and 2021 would have reached a sum of $104 billion [Pike Research].
• Biomass installations present a more attractive investment than other renewable energies. The major portion of interest is directed at biomass with 37% interested in investment of all renewable energies [KPMG].
• Estimations predict that by 2050, biomass could provide 50% of the world’s primary energy needs. [Business Insight].
• Great growth in the trade of biomass commodities (biodiesel, fuel etahnol…): international trade  volume increased  by a factor of 10 between 2000 and 2010 [Bioenergytrade.org].

“Power generation from biomass costs about €90 to €100 per MWh, more than the cost of power from cheap fossil fuels with low carbon prices. It is still necessary to make it cost competitive”

• Accelerated development of sylleptic branching while the plants are young to increase biomass production of a forestry plantation: costs reduction in raw material production.
• Alternative application as timber logging, increasing both wood quality and forestry efficiency: reduction in the number of nodes in the trunk of high value limber ligneous species.
• Multi-application solution in industrial sectors of great economic impact: energy, chemical, silvicultural, paper industries.
• Potentially applicable to any genotype of a ligneous species: allow taking advantage of this genotype to a specific habitat.
• Required forestry plantations can be established in surplus marginal  or agricultural lands: no competence with the food crop for fertile soils.