Towards identifying industrial crop types and associated agronomies to improve biomass production from marginal lands in Europe

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 in Europe (Mediterranean, Atlantic and Continental), seven advanced indust...

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Main Authors: Danilo Scordia, Eleni G. Papazoglou, Danai Kotoula, Marina Sanz, Carlos S. Ciria, Javier Pérez, Oksana Maliarenko, Oleh Prysiazhniuk, Moritz vonCossel, Beatrice E. Greiner, Dagnija Lazdina, Kristaps Makovskis, Isabelle Lamy, Lisa Ciadamidaro, Lucas Petit‐dit‐Grezeriat, Sebastiano A. Corinzia, Ana L. Fernando, Efthymia Alexopoulou, Salvatore L. Cosentino
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12935
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author Danilo Scordia
Eleni G. Papazoglou
Danai Kotoula
Marina Sanz
Carlos S. Ciria
Javier Pérez
Oksana Maliarenko
Oleh Prysiazhniuk
Moritz vonCossel
Beatrice E. Greiner
Dagnija Lazdina
Kristaps Makovskis
Isabelle Lamy
Lisa Ciadamidaro
Lucas Petit‐dit‐Grezeriat
Sebastiano A. Corinzia
Ana L. Fernando
Efthymia Alexopoulou
Salvatore L. Cosentino
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Beatrice E. Greiner
Dagnija Lazdina
Kristaps Makovskis
Isabelle Lamy
Lisa Ciadamidaro
Lucas Petit‐dit‐Grezeriat
Sebastiano A. Corinzia
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description 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 in Europe (Mediterranean, Atlantic and Continental), seven advanced industrial crop species [giant reed (two clones), miscanthus (M. × giganteus and two new seed‐based hybrids), saccharum (one clones), switchgrass (one variety), tall wheatgrass (one variety), industrial hemp (three varieties) and willow (eleven clones)], and six marginality factors alone or in combination (dryness, unfavorable texture, stoniness, shallow soil, topsoil acidity, heavy metal and metalloid contamination) were investigated. At each site, biophysical constraints and low‐input management practices were combined with prevailing climatic conditions. The relative yield of a site‐specific low‐input system compared with the site‐specific control was from small to large (i.e. from −99% in industrial hemp in the Mediterranean to +210% in willow in the Continental zone), due to the genotype‐by‐management interaction along with climatic variation between growing seasons. Genotype selection and improved knowledge on crop response to changing environmental, site‐specific biophysical constraint and input application has been detected as key to profitably grow industrial crops on marginal areas. This study may act to provide hints on how to scale up investigated cropping systems, through low‐input practices, under similar environmental and soil conditions tested at each site. However, further attention to detail on the agronomy of early plant development and management in larger multi‐year and multi‐location field studies with commercially scalable agronomies are needed to validate yield performances, and thereby to inform on the best industrial crop options.
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spelling doaj.art-355874fb294941549ec72fe8e4b00f982022-12-22T03:25:39ZengWileyGCB Bioenergy1757-16931757-17072022-07-0114771073410.1111/gcbb.12935Towards identifying industrial crop types and associated agronomies to improve biomass production from marginal lands in EuropeDanilo Scordia0Eleni G. Papazoglou1Danai Kotoula2Marina Sanz3Carlos S. Ciria4Javier Pérez5Oksana Maliarenko6Oleh Prysiazhniuk7Moritz vonCossel8Beatrice E. Greiner9Dagnija Lazdina10Kristaps Makovskis11Isabelle Lamy12Lisa Ciadamidaro13Lucas Petit‐dit‐Grezeriat14Sebastiano A. Corinzia15Ana L. Fernando16Efthymia Alexopoulou17Salvatore L. Cosentino18Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie University of Messina Polo Universitario dell’Annunziata Messina ItalyDepartment of Crop Science Agricultural University of Athens Athens GreeceDepartment of Crop Science Agricultural University of Athens Athens GreeceCentre for the Development of Renewable Energies CEDER‐CIEMAT Salida Lubia SpainCentre for the Development of Renewable Energies CEDER‐CIEMAT Salida Lubia SpainCentre for the Development of Renewable Energies CEDER‐CIEMAT Salida Lubia SpainInstitute of Bioenergy Crops and Sugar Beet NAAS Kyiv UkraineInstitute of Bioenergy Crops and Sugar Beet NAAS Kyiv UkraineBiobased Resources in the Bioeconomy (340b) Institute of Crop Science University of Hohenheim Stuttgart GermanyBiobased Resources in the Bioeconomy (340b) Institute of Crop Science University of Hohenheim Stuttgart GermanyLatvian State Forest Research Institute SILAVA Salaspils LatviaLatvian State Forest Research Institute SILAVA Salaspils LatviaUniversity Paris Saclay National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment National Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences UMR ECOSYS, Ecotoxicology Team Versailles FranceUniversity Paris Saclay National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment National Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences UMR ECOSYS, Ecotoxicology Team Versailles FranceUniversity Paris Saclay National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment National Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences UMR ECOSYS, Ecotoxicology Team Versailles FranceDipartimento di Agricoltura Alimentazione e Ambiente (Di3A) University of Catania Catania ItalyMEtRICs Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologia da Biomassa NOVA School of Science and Technology FCT NOVA Universidade Nova de Lisboa Caparica PortugalCenter for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving Biomass Department Pikermi Attikis GreeceDipartimento di Agricoltura Alimentazione e Ambiente (Di3A) University of Catania Catania ItalyAbstract 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 in Europe (Mediterranean, Atlantic and Continental), seven advanced industrial crop species [giant reed (two clones), miscanthus (M. × giganteus and two new seed‐based hybrids), saccharum (one clones), switchgrass (one variety), tall wheatgrass (one variety), industrial hemp (three varieties) and willow (eleven clones)], and six marginality factors alone or in combination (dryness, unfavorable texture, stoniness, shallow soil, topsoil acidity, heavy metal and metalloid contamination) were investigated. At each site, biophysical constraints and low‐input management practices were combined with prevailing climatic conditions. The relative yield of a site‐specific low‐input system compared with the site‐specific control was from small to large (i.e. from −99% in industrial hemp in the Mediterranean to +210% in willow in the Continental zone), due to the genotype‐by‐management interaction along with climatic variation between growing seasons. Genotype selection and improved knowledge on crop response to changing environmental, site‐specific biophysical constraint and input application has been detected as key to profitably grow industrial crops on marginal areas. This study may act to provide hints on how to scale up investigated cropping systems, through low‐input practices, under similar environmental and soil conditions tested at each site. However, further attention to detail on the agronomy of early plant development and management in larger multi‐year and multi‐location field studies with commercially scalable agronomies are needed to validate yield performances, and thereby to inform on the best industrial crop options.https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12935biomass cropsbiophysical constraintscontaminated landfarming systemsiLUC‐riskless favored areas
spellingShingle Danilo Scordia
Eleni G. Papazoglou
Danai Kotoula
Marina Sanz
Carlos S. Ciria
Javier Pérez
Oksana Maliarenko
Oleh Prysiazhniuk
Moritz vonCossel
Beatrice E. Greiner
Dagnija Lazdina
Kristaps Makovskis
Isabelle Lamy
Lisa Ciadamidaro
Lucas Petit‐dit‐Grezeriat
Sebastiano A. Corinzia
Ana L. Fernando
Efthymia Alexopoulou
Salvatore L. Cosentino
Towards identifying industrial crop types and associated agronomies to improve biomass production from marginal lands in Europe
GCB Bioenergy
biomass crops
biophysical constraints
contaminated land
farming systems
iLUC‐risk
less favored areas
title Towards identifying industrial crop types and associated agronomies to improve biomass production from marginal lands in Europe
title_full Towards identifying industrial crop types and associated agronomies to improve biomass production from marginal lands in Europe
title_fullStr Towards identifying industrial crop types and associated agronomies to improve biomass production from marginal lands in Europe
title_full_unstemmed Towards identifying industrial crop types and associated agronomies to improve biomass production from marginal lands in Europe
title_short Towards identifying industrial crop types and associated agronomies to improve biomass production from marginal lands in Europe
title_sort towards identifying industrial crop types and associated agronomies to improve biomass production from marginal lands in europe
topic biomass crops
biophysical constraints
contaminated land
farming systems
iLUC‐risk
less favored areas
url https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12935
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