**3. Prospects of the corn biofuel**

Corn-based biofuel offers promising prospects as a renewable energy source. In addition, ongoing plant breeding research, technological advances, and extension approaches and agronomic measures are needed to improve the efficiency and environmental impact of corn-based biofuel production.

### **3.1 Breeding prospects of corn for biofuel**

Breeding corn for biofuel production has been an important research area in recent years. The aim of corn breeding for biofuel is to develop corn varieties that have improved yield and quality traits that can enhance the efficiency of the biofuel production process [24]. It involves the crossing desirable parent plants to produce offspring that have the desired traits with proper evaluation of their performance. The different breeding aspects of corn for biofuel is illustrated below in **Table 1**.

Several breeding techniques can be employed to intensify the generation of biofuel from maize. Here are a few typical methods [26–28]:
