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Last changed: 05 February 2024
A salix field under a grey sky, photo.

Here you can find publications from the collaborative research project OPTUS. The aim of OPTUS is to explore the breeding potential of Salix for sustainable production of high value chemicals and biofuels from its biomass.

Scientific articles

All the articles are open access.

Genome Wide Associations of Growth, Phenology, and Plasticity Traits in Willow [Salix viminalis (L.)]. 2019. Hallingbäck HR, Berlin S, Nordh N-E, Weih M, Rönnberg-Wästljung A-C. In Frontiers in Plant Science.

Genetic variation of biomass recalcitrance in a natural Salix viminalis (L.) population. 2019. Ohlsson JA, Hallingbäck, HR, Jebrane M, Harman-Ware AE, Shollenberger T, Decker SR, Sandgren M, Rönnberg-Wästljung A-C. In Biotechnol Biofuels 

Biomass Recalcitrance in Willow Under Two Biological Conversion Paradigms: Enzymatic Hydrolysis and Anaerobic Digestion. 2019. Ohlsson JA, Harman-Ware AE, Sandgren M, Schnürer A. In BioEnergy Research

Book chapters

Sustainable production of willow for biofuel use. 2019. In: Achieving carbon-negative bioenergy systems from plant materials. Weih M, Hansson P-A, Ohlsson JA, Sandgren M, Schnürer A, Rönnberg-Wästljung A-C.


Contact

Ann-Christin Rönnberg Wästljung

Coordinator of OPTUS
Associate Professor at the Department of Plant Biology, SLU
Telephone: 018-673316
E-mail: anki.wastljung@slu.se