Ok so it already kinda does, but a professor at UNC is trying to clone the properties of the copaiba tree to help mother nature help us.

From the Greeleytribune.com

If, say five years from now, you’re filling your car’s tank with low-cost fuel made from grass, algae or another non-food plant, you might have a University of Northern Colorado professor to thank.

Chhandak Basu, an assistant professor of biological sciences, is researching whether a gene from a tropical “diesel tree” can be cloned into other plants for mass production of biofuel.
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