Environment Has Little Effect on Biomass Biochemical Composition of Miscanthus × giganteus Across Soil Types, Nitrogen Fertilization, and Times of Harvest

Bioenergy Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1636-1646

  Arundale, Rebecca A ^a   Bauer, Stefan ^b   Haffner, Fernanda B ^b   Mitchell, Valerie D ^b   Voigt, Thomas B ^a   Long, Stephen P ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Biofuel; Cellulose; Composition; Hemicellulose; Klason lignin; Lignocellulose; Nitrogen; Structural carbohydrate

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FEEDSTOCKS; GENES; HARVESTING; LIGNIN; NITROGEN;

BIO-ENERGY; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DIFFERENCE; HEMICELLULOSE; INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTS; KLASON LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; LIGNOCELLULOSIC FEEDSTOCKS;

CELLULOSE;

EID: 84947032964     PISSN: 19391234     EISSN: 19391242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12155-015-9613-2     Document Type: Article

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