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Bioenergy crops mitigate greenhouse gases

Ziyue Yu, Hang Han and Fan Zhang
Jan 28, 2026
Jan 28, 2026

Miscanthus — Darren Touchell, Nathan Lynch, and Jeremy Smith in July 2024 harvest giant miscanthus plots near the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in North Carolina. The large Asian grass is an emerging biomass crop in the United States with an array of applications. Successful bioenergy crops like giant miscanthus should maximize energy and biomass production per unit area; thrive on marginal land with minimal inputs; be extremely adaptable to different soil types and resistant to pests; and have minimal environmental impacts. As new technologies emerge, the competitiveness and profitability of different bioenergy systems and fuel sources will continue to change. Therefore it’s important to start developing and producing transitional bioenergy crops that will have wide utility and value in diverse markets in both the near and long term.
North Carolina State University

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Ziyue Yu is with the Nanjing Forestry University-College of Economics and Management. Hang Han is with the Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Fan Zhang is with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The article was published in ScienceDirect.

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