Sugar Yield of Sweet Pearl Millet and Sweet Sorghum as Influenced by Harvest Dates and Delays Between Biomass Chopping and Pressing

Bioenergy Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 100-108

  dos Passos Bernardes, Amélia ^a   Tremblay, Gaëtan F ^b   Bélanger, Gilles ^b   Brégard, Annie ^a   Seguin, Philippe ^c   Vanasse, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delay; Harvest dates; Sugar yield; Sweet pearl millet; Sweet sorghum

Indexed keywords

BAGASSE; BIOETHANOL; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATES; GEMS; HARVESTING; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS;

DELAY; FERMENTABLE SUGARS; NON-STRUCTURAL CARBOHYDRATES; PEARL MILLET; SUGAR YIELD; SWEET SORGHUM; SWEET SORGHUM [SORGHUM BICOLOR (L.) MOENCH]; WATER-SOLUBLE CARBOHYDRATES;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 84923701817     PISSN: 19391234     EISSN: 19391242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12155-014-9504-y     Document Type: Article

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