Author(s): Larry E. Erickson (Editor); Valentina Pidlisnyuk (Editor)

Organic Farming

• Focused on an important topic of a growing global activity: soil improvement through biomass production.
• Includes case-studies and success stories from different countries on application of miscanthus phytotechnology to sites differently contaminated by trace elements, pesticides and petroleum products.
• Discusses peculiarities of miscanthus production on post-military and post-mining contaminated land, impact of plant growth regulators, soil amendments, fertilizers and biochar to the process.
• Introduces soil fauna as indicators of soil health during miscanthus phytotechnology application.
• Presents miscanthus value chain associated with processing of miscanthus biomass to different bioproducts.