Table 1.
Field trials used in this study with details of the propagation and harvesting methods used.
| Propagation methods |
Harvesting methods |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Planting year | Rhizome | In vitro plugs | Seed plugs | Film | Hand | Direct chip | Mow | Swath drying | Bale | Pellet | Reference |
| Blankney large scale (5 ha), United Kingdom | 2012 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | Lewandowski et al., 2016 | ||||
| Penglais (6 ha), United Kingdom | 2012 | √ | √ | McCalmont et al., 2015b | ||||||||
| Multi-location GXE trial OPTIMISC | 2012 | √ | √ | √ | Kalinina et al., 2017 | |||||||
| Lincoln commercial planting, United Kingdom | 2012–present | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | Unpublished M. Mos | |||||
| Ihinger Hof large scale (0.6 ha), DE | 2013 | √ | √ | Unpublished T. Truckses | ||||||||
| DAZ large scale (2 ha), UA | 2013 | √ | √ | Unpublished H. Schuele | ||||||||
| Multi-location GIANT LINK hybrid trial, United Kingdom | 2014 | √ | √ | √ | √ | Unpublished J. Clifton-Brown | ||||||
| Film effects plot trial, United Kingdom | 2014 | √ | √ | √ | √ | Unpublished C. Ashman | ||||||
| GIANT Elite seed trial, United Kingdom | 2015 | √ | √ | √ | √ | Unpublished R. Shafiei | ||||||
| Unterer Lindenhof large scale GNT | 2015 | √ | √ | √ | √ | Unpublished A. Kiesel | ||||||