Effects of planting date on sugar and ethanol yield of sweet sorghum grown in Arizona

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1293-1300

  Teetor, Valerie H ^a   Duclos, Denise V ^a,b   Wittenberg, Elisabeth T ^a   Young, Kelly M ^a   Chawhuaymak, Jeerawan ^c   Riley, Mark R ^c   Ray, Dennis T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Ethanol; Fermentation; Planting date; Sugar; Sweet sorghum; Yield

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CONVERSION RATES; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; ETHANOL YIELD; FORAGE PRODUCTION; LABORATORY SCALE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MATURITY; PLANTING DATE; PREDICTED YIELD; PREDICTIVE MODELS; REDUCED INPUTS; SORGHUM BICOLOR (L.) MOENCH; SWEET SORGHUM; YIELD; YIELD COMPONENTS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CROPS; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

LIQUID SUGAR;

ARID REGION; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY RESOURCE; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; HARVESTING; LABORATORY METHOD; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATURATION; PHYTOMASS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SORGHUM; SOWING DATE; SUGAR; WEIGHT; YIELD RESPONSE;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 79960379476     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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