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Stress tolerance of five willow clones after irrigation with different amounts of landfill leachate.
Bioresource technology - 1 Jan 2006
Dimitriou Ioannis, Aronsson Pär, Weih Martin
Abstract excerpt
Short-rotation willow (Salix sp.) coppice, a commercial crop grown for energy purposes, is used for phytoremediation of landfill leachate in Sweden. However, the leachate's chemical composition can cause plant damage mainly due to high NaCl and NH4 concentrations. A pot experiment was conducted in order to quantify the growth responses of five different willow clones ("78-183", "Jorr", "Loden", "Olof", "Tora") to...
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