- Title
- Sugarcane phytoliths : Encapsulation and sequestration of a long-lived carbon fraction
- Creator
- Parr, Jeffrey; Sullivan, Leigh; Quirk, Robert
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/99703
- Identifier
- vital:10408
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-009-0003-y
- Identifier
- ISSN:0972-1525
- Abstract
- The potential to reduce emissions from agriculture and increase the amount of carbon captured in soils is currently being examined by researchers in a number of countries. This paper describes a process of carbon capture and long-term storage using silica phytoliths and, provides the results of a study of this process on newly planted and ratooned sugarcane varieties. Our results indicate that a) there was significant variation in the phytolith occluded carbon (PhytOC) content of different varieties, b) this did not appear to be directly related to the quantity of silica in the plant but rather the efficiency of carbon encapsulation by individual varieties and c) it was possible to accurately quantify this carbon fraction prior to its incorporation into soil. The carbon content of the varieties tested under the particular suite of environmental conditions for which they were grown ranged from 0.12 te-CO
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Relation
- Sugar Tech Vol. 11, no. 1 (2009), p. 17-21
- Rights
- Copyright © 2009 Society for Sugar Research & Promotion.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Occluded carbon; Organic matter decomposition; PhytOC; Phytoliths; Soil organic carbon; Terrestrial carbon sequestration
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