TITLE:
A new form of Miscanthus (Chinese silver grass, Miscanthus sinensis—Andersson) as a promising source of cellulosic biomass
AUTHORS:
Vladimir K. Shumny, Sergey G. Veprev, Nikolay N. Nechiporenko, Tatiana N. Goryachkovskaya, Nikolay M. Slynko, Nikolay A. Kolchanov, Sergey E. Peltek
KEYWORDS:
Cellulose; Lignin; Biomass; Cellulosic Biomass; Miscanthus sinensis; Vegetative Reproduction of Plants
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Vol.1 No.3,
August
16,
2010
ABSTRACT: The Far East population of Miscanthus sinensis (Andersson) was introduced into the West Siberia conditions. There was distinguished a form with a modified structure of the rootage which forms long shoots with leader buds and rapidly colonizes soil, thus forming a continuous and flat (without tussocks) plantation of miscanthus. It is shown that using usual agrotechnologies, it is possible to obtain 10-15 tons of dry biomass of high quality cellulose (about 40%) per ha/year.