Breeding Miscanthus for Bioenergy

Clifton‐Brown, John; Robson, P. R. H.; Davey, Christopher L.; Farrar, Kerrie; Hayes, Charlotte; Huang, Lin; Jensen, Elaine; Jones, Laurence; Hinton-Jones, M.; Maddison, Anne; Meyer, Heike; Norris, J. R.; Purdy, Sarah; Rodgers, Charlie; Schwarz, Kai‐Uwe; Cosentino, Salvatore Luciano; Slavov, Gancho; Valentine, John F.; Webster, Richard; Youell, Sue; Donnison, Iain S.

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“…M×g is a high yielding, low input, perennial, giant grass, belonging to the group of C4 carbon pathway plants (Jeżowski, 1994, 2001; Deuter and Jeżowski, 2000; Heaton et al, 2004; Sacks et al, 2013). The potential of the crop for biomass, bioenergy and biofuel production is widely recognized (El Bassam, 1997; Deuter and Jeżowski, 1998; Lewandowski, 2006; Hastings et al, 2008; Faber and Kuś, 2009; Chung and Kim, 2012; Clifton-Brown et al, 2013). Moreover, Miscanthus can play a useful role in improving soil structure and levels of organic matter (Jeżowski, 1994; Majtkowski, 1998; Faber et al, 2007).…”

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Establishment, Growth, and Yield Potential of the Perennial Grass Miscanthus × Giganteus on Degraded Coal Mine Soils

Jeżowski

Mos²,

Buckby³

et al. 2017

Front. Plant Sci.

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Miscanthus × giganteus is a giant C4 grass native to Asia. Unlike most C4 species, it is relatively cold tolerant due to adaptations across a wide range of altitudes. These grasses are characterized by high productivity and low input requirements, making them excellent candidates for bioenergy feedstock production. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential for growing Miscanthus on extremely marginal soils, degraded by open lignite (brown coal) mining. Field experiments were established within three blocks situated on waste heaps originating from the lignite mine. Analyses were conducted over the first 3 years following Miscanthus cultivation, focusing on the effect of organic and mineral fertilization on crop growth, development and yield in this extreme environment. The following levels of fertilization were implemented between the blocks: the control plot with no fertilization (D0), a plot with sewage sludge (D1), a plot with an identical amount of sewage sludge plus one dose of mineral fertilizer (D2) and a plot with an identical amount of sewage sludge plus a double dose of mineral fertilizer (D3). Crop development and characteristics (plant height, tillering, and biomass yield [dry matter]) were measured throughout the study period and analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Significant differences were apparent between plant development and 3rd year biomass production over the course of the study (0.964 kg plant-1 for DO compared to 1.503 kg plant-1 for D1). Soil analyses conducted over the course of the experiment showed that organic carbon levels within the soil increased significantly following the cultivation of Miscanthus, and overall, pH decreased. With the exception of iron, macronutrient concentrations remained stable throughout. The promising yields and positive effects of Miscanthus on the degraded soil suggests that long term plantations on land otherwise unsuitable for agriculture may prove to be of great environmental and economic significance.

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Establishment, Growth, and Yield Potential of the Perennial Grass Miscanthus × Giganteus on Degraded Coal Mine Soils

Jeżowski

Mos²,

Buckby³

et al. 2017

Front. Plant Sci.

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“…Originating from Asia, Miscanthus has now been bred to produce a range of varieties that are more suitable for European and United Kingdom climates (Clifton-Brown et al, 2004;Heaton et al, 2010;Brown et al, 2013). Within the United Kingdom, yields of Miscanthus can vary markedly as a result of several environmental factors, of which, temperature is a key abiotic driver of yield (Purdy et al, 2013;Awty-Carroll et al, 2023).…”

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Making climate reanalysis and CMIP6 data processing easy: two “point-and-click” cloud based user interfaces for environmental and ecological studies

Lea,

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Brough

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Climate reanalysis and climate projection datasets offer the potential for researchers, students and instructors to access physically informed, global scale, temporally and spatially continuous climate data from the latter half of the 20th century to present, and explore different potential future climates. While these data are of significant use to research and teaching within biological, environmental and social sciences, potential users often face barriers to processing and accessing the data that cannot be overcome without specialist knowledge, facilities or assistance. Consequently, climate reanalysis and projection data are currently substantially under-utilised within research and education communities. To address this issue, we present two simple “point-and-click” graphical user interfaces: the Google Earth Engine Climate Tool (GEEClimT), providing access to climate reanalysis data products; and Google Earth Engine CMIP6 Explorer (GEECE), allowing processing and extraction of CMIP6 projection data, including the ability to create custom model ensembles. Together GEEClimT and GEECE provide easy access to over 387 terabytes of data that can be output in commonly used spreadsheet (CSV) or raster (GeoTIFF) formats to aid subsequent offline analysis. Data included in the two tools include: 20 atmospheric, terrestrial and oceanic reanalysis data products; a new dataset of annual resolution climate variables (comparable to WorldClim) calculated from ERA5-Land data for 1950-2022; and CMIP6 climate projection output for 34 model simulations for historical, SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 scenarios. New data products can also be easily added to the tools as they become available within the Google Earth Engine Data Catalog. Five case studies that use data from both tools are also provided. These show that GEEClimT and GEECE are easily expandable tools that remove multiple barriers to entry that will open use of climate reanalysis and projection data to a new and wider range of users.

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Biotechnology of Miscanthus

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2013

Biotechnology of Neglected and Underutilized Crops

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Breeding Miscanthus for Bioenergy

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Establishment, Growth, and Yield Potential of the Perennial Grass Miscanthus × Giganteus on Degraded Coal Mine Soils

Establishment, Growth, and Yield Potential of the Perennial Grass Miscanthus × Giganteus on Degraded Coal Mine Soils

Making climate reanalysis and CMIP6 data processing easy: two “point-and-click” cloud based user interfaces for environmental and ecological studies

Biotechnology of Miscanthus

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