Multipurpose plant species and circular economy: Corylus avellana L. as a study case
Corylus avellana L. is one of the most cultivated species in the world. Mainly utilized with the purpose of obtaining food material, hazel trees cannot guarantee constant kernels productions given the threats related to pathogens and to adverse conditions, especially in a globalisation and global ch...
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| description | Corylus avellana L. is one of the most cultivated species in the world. Mainly utilized with the purpose of obtaining food material, hazel trees cannot guarantee constant kernels productions given the threats related to pathogens and to adverse conditions, especially in a globalisation and global changes scenarios. This matter led us to consider the opportunity of using hazel tree in all its parts and for several purposes, due to its multifunctional characteristics. As a pioneer species, it is a precious plant useful for forest restoration purposes and for forest successions/wildlife facilitation. Its roots enter into symbiosis with truffles making this species exploitable for hazelnuts and truffles production. The precious elements contained in what is considered “waste” deriving from hazel crops (i.e., leaves, skins, shells, husks and pruning material), could be reused and valorised in the perspective of a circular economy that is opposed to a linear one. In particular, a list of several phenolic compounds detected in hazelnut shells has been reported in literature to prevent and delay many human diseases due to their antioxidant properties and to free radical scavenging activities, with implications potentially useful even in the fight against COVID-19. All this makes hazel crop by-products interesting to be valorised as a chemical compound source for human health, even more than a biomass fuel or for bio-char applications. The multiple possible uses of the hazel tree would lead to alternative productions than the only nut productions, avoiding significant economic losses, would decrease the cost of disposal of crops residues and would increase the sustainability of agro-ecosystems by reducing, among other things, the production of wastes and of greenhouse gases deriving from the usual burning of residues which often happens directly in fields. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d86ba23ba41341e99858041e8cab198e2022-12-21T19:14:52ZengIMR PressFrontiers in Bioscience-Landmark2768-67012022-01-0127101110.31083/j.fbl2701011S2768-6701(22)00349-5Multipurpose plant species and circular economy: Corylus avellana L. as a study caseAgnese Allegrini0Pietro Salvaneschi1Bartolomeo Schirone2Kevin Cianfaglione3Alessandro Di Michele4Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE), Tuscia University, 01100 Viterbo, Lazio, ItalyDepartment of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE), Tuscia University, 01100 Viterbo, Lazio, ItalyDepartment of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE), Tuscia University, 01100 Viterbo, Lazio, ItalyUMR UL/AgroParisTech/INRAE 1434 Silva, Université de Lorraine, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, BP 70239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lés-Nancy, FranceDepartment of Physics and Geology, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Umbria, ItalyCorylus avellana L. is one of the most cultivated species in the world. Mainly utilized with the purpose of obtaining food material, hazel trees cannot guarantee constant kernels productions given the threats related to pathogens and to adverse conditions, especially in a globalisation and global changes scenarios. This matter led us to consider the opportunity of using hazel tree in all its parts and for several purposes, due to its multifunctional characteristics. As a pioneer species, it is a precious plant useful for forest restoration purposes and for forest successions/wildlife facilitation. Its roots enter into symbiosis with truffles making this species exploitable for hazelnuts and truffles production. The precious elements contained in what is considered “waste” deriving from hazel crops (i.e., leaves, skins, shells, husks and pruning material), could be reused and valorised in the perspective of a circular economy that is opposed to a linear one. In particular, a list of several phenolic compounds detected in hazelnut shells has been reported in literature to prevent and delay many human diseases due to their antioxidant properties and to free radical scavenging activities, with implications potentially useful even in the fight against COVID-19. All this makes hazel crop by-products interesting to be valorised as a chemical compound source for human health, even more than a biomass fuel or for bio-char applications. The multiple possible uses of the hazel tree would lead to alternative productions than the only nut productions, avoiding significant economic losses, would decrease the cost of disposal of crops residues and would increase the sustainability of agro-ecosystems by reducing, among other things, the production of wastes and of greenhouse gases deriving from the usual burning of residues which often happens directly in fields.https://www.imrpress.com/journal/FBL/27/1/10.31083/j.fbl2701011corylus avellana l.sustainabilitycircular economymultipurpose plantforest restoration |
| spellingShingle | Agnese Allegrini Pietro Salvaneschi Bartolomeo Schirone Kevin Cianfaglione Alessandro Di Michele Multipurpose plant species and circular economy: Corylus avellana L. as a study case Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark corylus avellana l. sustainability circular economy multipurpose plant forest restoration |
| title | Multipurpose plant species and circular economy: Corylus avellana L. as a study case |
| title_full | Multipurpose plant species and circular economy: Corylus avellana L. as a study case |
| title_fullStr | Multipurpose plant species and circular economy: Corylus avellana L. as a study case |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multipurpose plant species and circular economy: Corylus avellana L. as a study case |
| title_short | Multipurpose plant species and circular economy: Corylus avellana L. as a study case |
| title_sort | multipurpose plant species and circular economy corylus avellana l as a study case |
| topic | corylus avellana l. sustainability circular economy multipurpose plant forest restoration |
| url | https://www.imrpress.com/journal/FBL/27/1/10.31083/j.fbl2701011 |
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