Quantitative and qualitative biomass production potential of giant reed mutants under rainfed and irrigated conditions

Walter Zegada-Lizarazu; Silvio Salvi; Giuseppe Di Girolamo; Andrea Monti

Quantitative and qualitative biomass production potential of giant reed mutants under rainfed and irrigated conditions

Walter Zegada-Lizarazu, Silvio Salvi, Giuseppe Di Girolamo, Andrea Monti

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Abstract

A large pool of arundo mutants was developed within the WATBIO EU project with the aim to increase the genetic variability within the species as a means to increase its agronomic and industrial value. The performance in quantitative and qualitative terms of a pre-selected material was evaluated for the first time in a field plot-scale experiment during two growing seasons (2015 and 2016) under irrigated and rainfed conditions. The initial results indicate that the UniBO3 mutant show some interesting morphological (higher number of tillers, higher plant height, and shallower roots) and qualitative (higher cellulose) characteristics that could be useful to improve productivity and adaptation of arundo to evolving industrial processing techniques and to stressful environmental conditions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	328-331
Number of pages	4
Journal	European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings
Volume	2017
Issue number	25thEUBCE
State	Published - 1 Jun 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Agriculture
Biomass
Lignocellulose
Water use
Yield

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Agronomy and Crop Science
Forestry
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Waste Management and Disposal

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Quantitative and qualitative biomass production potential of giant reed mutants under rainfed and irrigated conditions

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