Cover crops and ecosystem services: Insights from studies in temperate soils

H Blanco‐Canqui, TM Shaver, JL Lindquist… - Agronomy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cover crops (CCs) can provide multiple soil, agricultural production, and environmental
benefits. However, a better understanding of such potential ecosystem services is needed …

Application of Hydrochar, Digestate, and Synthetic Fertilizer to a Miscanthus x giganteus Crop: Implications for Biomass and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

T Adjuik, AM Rodjom, KE Miller, MTM Reza, SC Davis - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Hydrothermally carbonized digestate from biogas systems can be
applied to crops soils to reduce soil CO2 fluxes in some cases. Abstract Miscanthus x …

Novel Miscanthus hybrids: Modelling productivity on marginal land in Europe using dynamics of canopy development determined by light interception

A Shepherd, D Awty‐Carroll, J Kam, C Ashman… - GCB …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
New biomass crop hybrids for bioeconomic expansion require yield projections to determine
their potential for strategic land use planning in the face of global challenges. Our biomass …

Estimates of biomass yield for perennial bioenergy grasses in the USA

Y Song, AK Jain, W Landuyt, HS Kheshgi… - BioEnergy Research, 2015 - Springer
Perennial grasses, such as switchgrass (Panicum viragatum) and Miscanthus (Miscanthus×
giganteus), are potential choices for biomass feedstocks with low-input and high dry matter …

Nitrogen Reserve Pools in Two Miscanthus × giganteus Genotypes under Contrasting N Managements

RM Dierking, DJ Allen, SM Cunningham… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogen (N) reserves in vegetative tissues contribute N to regrowth of Miscanthus×
giganteus shoots in spring, but our understanding of how N fertilization and plant genotype …

Miscanthus agronomy and bioenergy feedstock potential on minesoils

DAN Ussiri, R Lal - Biofuels, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The US government has mandated production of 79 million liters of biofuel from
lignocellulose biomass and advanced fuels by 2022. To meet this requirement, the …

Szarvasi-1 and its potential to become a substitute for maize which is grown for the purposes of biogas plants in the Czech Republic

J Bernas, J Moudrý Jr, M Kopecký, P Konvalina… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
The domestic biogas market has been developing rapidly, and legislation (The Act)
supporting the use of renewable energy sources has come into force. In light of this act and …

[PDF][PDF] Establishment and growth of switchgrass and other biomass crops on surface mines

J Skousen, C Brown, T Griggs, S Byrd - JASMR, 2014 - asmr.us
Switchgrass Switchgrass was first researched in the early 1900s as one of the important
species of native perennials in the Midwestern USA's tall-grass prairies (Parrish et al., 2012) …

[PDF][PDF] Behaviour of Miscanthus sinensis varieties in pedo-climatic conditions from North-East of Romania

EL Chelariu, L Draghia, A ASĂNICĂ… - Romanian …, 2015 - academia.edu
The current research aimed to highlight the reaction of four ornamental varieties of
Miscanthus sinensis Anderss.(„Gracillimus”,„Silberfeder”,„Variegatus” and „Zebrinus”), in …

Renewable Technologies and Environmental Injustice: Subsidizing Bioenergy, Promoting Inequity

KS Shrader-Frechette, WC Preisser - Environmental Justice, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Dozens of developed countries massively subsidize biomass-crop growing/incineration,
touting it as clean, renewable, and helping to alleviate climate change. Using a case study of …