Progress on optimizing miscanthus biomass production for the European bioeconomy: Results of the EU FP7 project OPTIMISC

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. Miscanthus bioenergy and bioproduct chains were investigated by trialing fifteen diverse germplasm types in a range of climatic...

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Main Authors: Iris Lewandowski, John Clifton-Brown, Luisa M Trindade, Gerard Van Der Linden, Kai-Uwe Schwarz, Karl Müller - Sämann, Alexander Anisimov, C.-L. Chen, Oene Dolstra, Iain Simon Donnison, Kerrie Farrar, Simon Fonteyne, Graham Harding, Astley Hastings, Laurie Huxley, Yasir Iqbal, Nikolay Khokhlov, Andreas Kiesel, Peter Lootens, Heike Meyer, Michal Mos, Hilde Muylle, Chris Nunn, Mensure Ozguven, Isabel Roldan - Ruiz, Heinrich Schüle, Ivan Tarakanov, Tim Van Der Weijde, Moritz Wagner, Qingguo XI, Olena Kalinina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
LCA
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01620/full