Room: Auditorium 1
Date: Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Time: 11:45 - 12:45 CEST
Session code 1BO.4
Modelling and mapping tools to identify areas for sustainable integrated cropping systems
Improving Marginal Soils for Sustainable Plant Biomass Production in a Unique Field Research Infrastructure
Short Introductive summary
In the context of a sustainable, bio-based economy, the production and sufficient provision of biomass for material and/or energy applications is a critical bottleneck. To avoid land use conflicts with food production in biomass generation, it is essential to utilize previously unused and/or agriculturally non-viable, nutrient-poor marginal soils and to enhance and make them suitable for plant production. This goal is pursued, among other things, by the scientific endeavors at the unique "Marginal Field Lab". This includes the development and execution of field experiments that i) evaluate the transferability and further development of results obtained from laboratory and greenhouse trials in a "lab to field" approach, and ii) demonstrate the usability of the experimental field and the plantings for further research approaches, including food and feed, as well as fuel and fiber production.
Presenter
Nicolai David JABLONOWSKI
Forschungszentrum Jülich, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, GERMANY
Presenter's biography
Biologist, senior research scientist. Research topics: perennial plants, biogenic residues, marginal soils, nutrient recycling, plant-soil interactions, circular bioeconomy, and plant biomass for various application purposes. Editor and guest editor of the journal Agronomy.
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Co-authors:
B. Ohrem, Forschungszentrum Jülich, GERMANY
C. Kuchendorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, GERMANY
A. Kuhn, Forschungszentrum Jülich, GERMANY
H. Klose, Forschungszentrum Jülich, GERMANY
Session reference: 1BO.4.1