Iris Lewandowski

TL;DR: The experience with selecting perennial grasses for bioenergy production in both the US and Europe is summarized, and an overview of the characteristics and requirements of the four most investigated perennial rhizomatous grasses; switchgrass, miscanthus, reed canarygrass and giant reed are given.

TL;DR: Miscanthus is a tall perennial rhizomatous grass with C4 photosynthesis which originated in East Asia and has been successfully grown in Europe over the past 10 years as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Quickscan model is used to estimate bioenergy production potentials in 2050, based on a bottom-up approach and its development is based on an evaluation of data and studies on relevant factors such as population growth, per capita food consumption and the efficiency of food production.

TL;DR: Clifton-Brown et al. as discussed by the authors reported the performance of 15 Miscanthus genotypes at five sites in Europe and found that the genotype performance was similar to that of the non-genotype.

TL;DR: In this article, a four-year field trial was conducted on one site in south-western Germany to compare and evaluate the biomass and energy yield performance of important energy crops, including short rotation willow coppice, miscanthus, switchgrass, energy maize and two different crop rotation systems including winter oilseed rape, winter wheat and winter triticale.