A5016069857- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
University of Hohenheim
2022-2025
Biobase (Germany)
2022-2025
Abstract Growing industrial crops on marginal lands has been proposed as a strategy to minimize competition for arable land and food production. In the present study, eight experimental sites in three different climatic zones Europe (Mediterranean, Atlantic Continental), seven advanced crop species [giant reed (two clones), miscanthus ( M . × giganteus two new seed‐based hybrids), saccharum (one switchgrass variety), tall wheatgrass hemp (three varieties) willow (eleven clones)], six...
The European bioeconomy is steadily driving an industrial, economic, and social growth looking for sustainable biobased feedstocks able to replace fossil-based materials. In this scenario, there urgent increasing need produce locally industrial crops, with multiple applications broad suitability different pedo-climates. Furthermore, the actual EU legislation imposes crops not competing food ones, one possibility grow them on marginal land. Among others, camelina [Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz]...
Shallow arable soils (<35 cm depth) are classified as marginal for common agriculture but may still support biomass production from industrial crops like fiber hemp, which has a low indirect land-use change risk. However, little is known about hemp’s performance under such conditions. Therefore, this study investigated the yield and quality of hemp other on shallow cm), stony (>15% stone content), clay-rich (>50% clay content) soil at 800 m above sea level in Southwest Germany...
Africa has been a hotspot for the development of food and bioenergy crop cultivation since 2000s, leading to systematic challenges towards its ability become bioeconomy. To reduce land-use conflicts with cultivation, marginal African drylands (MADs) are proposed sustainable cropping systems (BCSs). This study reviews foremost socio-economic environmental BCSs on MADs, key principles minimizing adverse outcomes Socio-economic prosperity in depends several solutions, that based perennial crops...