Phytoremediation is a holistic approach and can be used in large scale to remediate the
contaminated land resources. Although the concept of phytoremediation is few decades old …

Planting the perennial biomass crop Miscanthus in the UK could offset 2–13 Mt oil eq. yr− 1,
contributing up to 10% of current energy use. Policymakers need assurance that upscaling …

This paper describes the complete findings of the EU-funded research project OPTIMISC,
which investigated methods to optimize the production and use of miscanthus biomass …

The world needs an enormous amount of energy to maintain the future economic
developments. India has facile ways to overcome the immediate demand on energy supply …

Environmental pollution is one of the most pressing global issues, and it requires priority
attention. Environmental remediation techniques have been developed over the years and …

a bstract Efforts to manage soils for carbon (C) sequestration remain limited by our
understanding of how differences in plant traits and microbial traits mechanistically drive soil …

Grasses as lignocellulose biomass are promising feed stocks for renewable bioethanol
production, since these raw materials have high productivity, require low agricultural inputs …

Field trials in Europe with Miscanthus over the past 25 years have demonstrated that
interspecies hybrids such as M.× giganteus (M× g) combine both high yield potentials and …

With the advent of biorefinery technologies enabling plant biomass to be processed into
biofuel, many researchers set out to study and improve candidate biomass crops. Many of …

The mitigation of potential health hazards and land scarcity due to land use change can be
addressed by restoring functional and ecosystem services of contaminated land. Physico …