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Characterization of crop residues from false banana /Ensete ventricosum/ in Ethiopia in view of a full-resource valorization.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Berhanu Hanna, Kiflie Zebene, Miranda Isabel, Lourenço Ana, Ferreira Joana, Feleke Sisay, Yimam Abubeker, Pereira Helena
Abstract excerpt
False banana /Ensete ventricosum [Welw.] Cheesman/ is exploited as a food crop in Ethiopia where it represents an important staple food. The plant is harvested and large amounts of biomass residues are originated, mainly from the pseudo stem (i.e., fiber bundles obtained from the leaf sheaths after being scrapped to produce starchy food) and the inflorescence stalk. These materials were studied in relation to...
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