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    Energy Production Features of Miscanthus Pellets Blended with Pine Sawdust

    The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the qualities of Miscanthus pellets blended with pine sawdust at various ratios (Miscanthus/pine sawdust—0:100, 25:75, 50:50, 75:25, and 100:0) and relate them ...

    Ali Mohammadi, Anthony Ike Anukam, Mike Ojemaye, Pardon Nyamukamba in BioEnergy Research (2024)

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    Field Performance of Saccharum × Miscanthus Intergeneric Hybrids (Miscanes) Under Cool Climatic Conditions of Northern Japan

    Physiological susceptibility to early- and late-season chilling limits commercial production of sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrid), a major crop for lignocellulosic biomass, refined sugar, and bioethanol, to tropi...

    Suraj Kar, Tzu-Ya Weng, Taiken Nakashima, Antonio Villanueva-Morales in BioEnergy Research (2020)

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    Miscanthus

    Miscanthus is a perennial rhizomatous warm-season C4 grass species and is native throughout Eastern Asia and Pacific islands, ranging from tropical Polynesia to southern Siberia. Conventionally, th...

    Toshihiko Yamada in Industrial Crops (2015)

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    Genetic Analysis of Putative Triploid Miscanthus Hybrids and Tetraploid M. sacchariflorus Collected from Sympatric Populations of Kushima, Japan

    Miscanthus  ×giganteus, a triploid hybrid between tetraploid M. sacchariflorus and diploid M. sinensis, has considerable potential as a bioenergy crop. Currently only one genotype is widely culti...

    Maria S. Dwiyanti, Arthur Rudolph, Kankshita Swaminathan in BioEnergy Research (2013)

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    The Gene Pool of Miscanthus Species and Its Improvement

    For more than a thousand years, people have used Miscanthus from wild stands or managed landscapes, to feed their livestock, roof their homes, make paper, dye possessions, and beautify their gardens. In recent de...

    Erik J. Sacks, John A. Juvik, Qi Lin, J. Ryan Stewart in Genomics of the Saccharinae (2013)

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    Insertion-Deletion Marker Targeting for Intron Polymorphisms

    Insertion-deletion (indel) polymorphisms are the second most frequent type of polymorphisms in genomes following single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). As one of the types of indel markers to detect polymorph...

    Ken-ichi Tamura, Jun-ichi Yonemaru, Toshihiko Yamada in Diagnostics in Plant Breeding (2013)

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    Environmental Tolerances of Miscanthus sinensis in Invasive and Native Populations

    Miscanthus sinensis is a moderately invasive ornamental grass species being considered as a bioenergy species in the USA and elsewhere. In this study, we show the range of environmental condition...

    Lauren D. Quinn, J. Ryan Stewart, Toshihiko Yamada, Yo Toma in BioEnergy Research (2012)

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    Allelic Diversity for Candidate Genes and Association Studies: Methods and Results

    The increasing ease with which molecular markers can be generated makes it possible for plant geneticists to use these genomic technologies for better exploitation of the available genetic variation in breedin...

    Toshihiko Yamada, Leif Skøt in Sustainable use of Genetic Diversity in Fo… (2010)

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    Transgenesis and Genomics in Forage Crops

    Forage grasses and legumes are important for animal production as well as soil conservation and environmental protection. Grass species also provide opportunities for turf and amenity. Further recently some of...

    Toshihiko Yamada, Ken-ichi Tamura, Xun Wang in Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement (2009)