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WILLOW VARIETIES

FOR BIOMASS PRODUCTION

Stig Larsson

European Willow Breeding AB

Short rotation willow coppice

• harvest interval, 2 4 years

• first harvest 3 years after planting

• shoots regrow from stumps after harvest

• is easily removed if the soils are decided

for other crops

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36 dry tonnes/ha,

at first harvest

Plant protected, certified SRC willow varieties

from 1990 to 2015

Orm, Ulv, Rapp, Björn, Jorr, Tora, Jorunn, Unn,

Astrid, Ingun, Jodis, Aud, Loden, Osk, Ivar, Halla,

Helga, Hild, Valborg, Sven, Torhild, Olof, Asgerd,

Gudrun, Tordis, Inger, Sherwood, Doris, Karin,

Terra Nova, Nora, Klara, Stina, Lisa, Dimitrios,

Linnéa, Wilhelm, Erik, Birgit, Estelle……Winter,

Ester, Emma, Bella

• male varieties

• female varieties

• hermaphrodite

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Varieties are made for different climatic areas

Orm, Ulv, Rapp, Björn, Jorr, Tora, Jorunn, Unn,

Astrid, Ingun, Jodis, Aud, Loden, Osk, Ivar, Halla,

Helga, Hild, Valborg, Sven, Torhild, Olof, Asgerd,

Gudrun, Tordis, Inger, Sherwood, Doris, Karin,

Terra Nova, Nora, Klara, Stina, Lisa, Dimitrios,

Linnéa, Wilhelm, Erik, Birgit, Estelle……Winter,

Ester, Emma, Bella

• Frost tolerant varieties

• Heat tolerant varieties

Still produced and marketed varieties

Tora, Sven, Tordis, Torhild, Olof, Inger, Terra Nova,

Klara, Linnéa, Wilhelm, Erik, Estelle……Winter, Ester,

Emma, Bella

• SW/Lantmännen varieties

• EWB varieties

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Klara

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Larissa, Grekland

Dimitrios

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Terra Nova

Caima, Portugal Variety test at Allasia Plant in

Cavallermaggiore, Oct 2008

IngerDimitrios

Salix alba in the national park

Kopacki Rit, close to Osijek, Croatia

2001

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Objective for EWB:

From cross to certified variety

within 4 years!Crosses are made in January February

Ca 10.000 plantor om året korsas framDet tar 10 år att få fram en ny sort29 registrerade EU-sorterCa 10 på marknadenCa 2 nya sorter varje år

Crosses in

greenhouse

Female flowers

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20.000 seeds in

a thimble

Seedlings from

different crosses

Selected seedlings Mini cutting propagation

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Propagation in greenhouse

Rooted plants from mini cuttings

Planting in May

For transport of rooted plants

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Corvinus Univ. Exp. Farm, Soroksár Petri major,

Hungary

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Enköping

Energy for local useProduction of heat and power

Cleaning of waste water

Recirculation of ash and sludge

Remediation of polluted soils, e.g. for Cd

Environmental aspects

• No insecticides are used

• No fungicides are used

• Limited amount of

herbicides are used

• No gene modification

• Limited use of

machineries

• Energy ratio 1:20

Plant Salix for energy, public health

and environment• plant renewable energy

• remove cadmium from your arable soils *

• plant on the ecological focus area

• create biological variability

* It is expected that a willow plantation over 5 6 years,

with two harvests cycles, will remove about half

of the cadmium contant in the root zone of actual soil!

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EWB license partners• Rosenhälls gård Energi AB, Billeberga, Sweden

• Danling Growing, Ikast, Denmark

• Bionova Hungary Kft., Budapest, Hungary

• Ekoinnowacje Jan Bocian, Lodz, Poland

• SIA Latvijas Bioenergijas Kompanija, Riga, Latvia

• Salix Energy, village Strilche, Ukraine

• Kubeshop s.r.o., Bratislava, Slovakia

• Billy & Thomas, Ireland

• ABAHOY Co Ltd, Finland

New license partners are welcome to start

production and sale of our EWB willow varieties!

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Thanks for your

attention !