Stress-Tolerant Feedstocks for Sustainable Bioenergy Production on Marginal Land

Bioenergy Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1081-1100

  Quinn, Lauren D ^a   Straker, Kaitlin C ^a   Guo, Jia ^a   Kim, S ^a   Thapa, Santanu ^a   Kling, Gary ^a   Lee, D K ^a   Voigt, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Feedstocks; Marginal land; Stress tolerance; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; FEEDSTOCKS; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; BIO-ENERGY; BIOENERGY PRODUCTIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; MARGINAL LANDS; SHORT-ROTATION WOODY CROPS; STRESS RESPONSE; STRESS TOLERANCE;

BIOMASS;

EID: 84940959352     PISSN: 19391234     EISSN: 19391242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12155-014-9557-y     Document Type: Review

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