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EUBCE 2024 - Felix OFORI-AGYEMANG - Optimizing Phytomanagement Strategies for a Metal (Cd, Pb, Zn, and Cu)-Contaminated Soil to Provide Biomass for Clean Biofuel Production - Progress from Field Trial

Optimizing Phytomanagement Strategies for a Metal (Cd, Pb, Zn, and Cu)-Contaminated Soil to Provide Biomass for Clean Biofuel Production - Progress from Field Trial

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Biomass resources and potentials

Biomass resources, related land-use impacts and emissions

Optimizing Phytomanagement Strategies for a Metal (Cd, Pb, Zn, and Cu)-Contaminated Soil to Provide Biomass for Clean Biofuel Production - Progress from Field Trial

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The increasing demand in food and fuel as a result of population has led to increasing pressure on arable lands. Approximately 1.86 million ha of soil are figured as metal(loid)-contaminated in the European Union (EU). These contaminated soils are prohibited to be used to gow food crops hence strategies are required to valorize these contaminated soils. High-yielding lignocellulosic crops like industrial hemp, sorghum, miscanthus and swithcgrass can grow on these contaminated soils. The crops can provide biomass which can be valorized as biofuel thereby helping reduce the pressure on arable lands. This study sought to intensify the production of biomass from hemp and sorghum using a biostimulant (humic/fulvic acids) and its combination with arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi on a metal-contaminated soil. The shoot metal (Cd, Pb and Zn) uptake was also studied.

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Felix OFORI-AGYEMANG

Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE)-JUNIA, FRANCE

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Co-authors:

F. Ofori-Agyemang, Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE)-JUNIA, Lille, FRANCE
C. Waterlot, Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géoEnvironnement-JUNIA, Lille, FRANCE
M. Mench, INRAE, UMR BIOGECO, Bordeaux, FRANCE
E. Papazoglou, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, GREECE
E. Alexopoulou, Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving, Biomass Department, Pikermi Attikis, GREECE
A. Burges, Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE)-JUNIA, Lille, FRANCE
N. Oustrière, Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE)-JUNIA, Lille, FRANCE

Session reference: 1AO.4.1