Long-term studies on switchgrass grown on a marginal area in Greece under different varieties and nitrogen fertilization rates

Alexopoulou, Efthymia; Zanetti, Federica; Papazoglou, Eleni G.; Christou, Myrsini; Papatheohari, Yolanda; Tsiotas, Kostas; Papamichael, I.

doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2017.05.027

Long-term studies on switchgrass grown on a marginal area in Greece under different varieties and nitrogen fertilization rates

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a perennial grass that has been selected as a candidate bioenergy crop for USA in the early 80s, while the research in Europe started a decade later. A long-term study on switchgrass had been carried out (1998–2015) on a marginal area in Greece comparing five …