Yield performance of fourteen novel inter- and intra-species Miscanthus hybrids across Europe
- Awty‐Carroll, D
- Magenau, E
- Al Hassan, M
- Martani, E
- Kontek, M
- van der Pluijm, P
- Ashman, C
- de Maupeou, E
- McCalmont, J
- Petrie, G
- Davey, C
- van der Cruijsen, K
- Jurišić, V
- Amaducci, S
- Lamy, I
- Shepherd, A
- Kam, J
- Hoogendam, A
- Croci, M
- Dolstra, O
- Ferrarini, A
- Lewandowski, I
- Trindade, LM
- Kiesel, A
- Clifton‐Brown, J
DOIAbstract
Miscanthus, a C4 perennial rhizomatous grass from Asia is a leading candidate for the supply of sustainable biomass needed to grow the bioeconomy. European Miscanthus breeding programmes have recently produced a new range of seeded hybrids with the objective of increasing scalability to large acreages limited by current clonal propagation. For the EU-GRACE project new replicated field trials were established in seven locations across Europe in 2018 with eight intraspecific M. sinensis hybrids (sin×sin) and six M. sacchariflorus × M. sinensis (sac×sin) from Dutch and UK breeding programmes respectively with clonal Miscanthus × giganteus. The planting density of the sin×sin was double that of sac×sin (30,000 & 15,000 plants ha-1), creating co...
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