Mitigation of climate change through advanced phytotechnology for military lands
Member of NATO team at UJEP, i.e., NPD Prof. Valentina Pidlisnyuk, Dr. Karim Al Souki, PhD students Robert Ato Newton, Abdulmannan Rouhani, Batoul Hamade, and Muhammed Zubair established Miscanthus plantation at the post-military brownfield located in suburb of Chomutov. The ash will be tested at the field scale there in accordance with the task of…
Presentation results at the University of Lodz, Poland On December 8-14,2024, Prof. Valentina Pidlisnyuk, NPD, UJEP and Dr. Tatyana Stefanovska, Co-Director, NULES visited Poland with NATO SPS MYP G6094 mission. They attended the National Institute of Horticultural Research (InHort) in Skierniewice with a number of planned meetings and research. Consequently, they met with Prof. Magdalena…
On December 04, 2024, Dr. Vitalii Stadnik, Dr. Martyn Sozanskyi, and Dr. Yurii Hrynchuk (LPNU) attended a Miscanthus plantation located in Dolyna, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine. The trip aimed to: – maintaining the experimental sites; – collect soil samples for C and N content in soil; – plants biomass obtaining.
On November 12, 2024, Dr. Vitalii Stadnik and Dr. Martyn Sozanskyi (LPNU, Ukraine) attended two research Miscanthus plantations established in 2023 and 2024 years at the post-military land in Vorzel, Kyiv region, Ukraine. At plantation 2023, industrially produced biochar Ideale as element of Advanced Miscanthus phytotechnology has been tested. At plantation 2024 biochar derived from…
On September 28 – October 5, 2024 Prof. Pidlisnyuk visited Poland with the NATO SPS MYP G6094 mission. She had a goal to meet with the colleagues from University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (WMU) to participate in the joint study on ash as an element of advanced phytotechnology and overview the research on…
From June to August 2024, a lab experiment on the impact of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) immobilized on various sorbents, including biochars, was conducted at UJEP in collaboration with Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan, and the Crop Research Institute’s branch in Chomutov, the Czech Republic. The microbial strains, isolated from agricultural soil and screened for…
On July 23, 2024, Dr. Vitalii Stadnik and Dr. Martyn Sozanskyi (LPNU) attended a research Miscanthus plantation located in Vorzel, Kyiv region, Ukraine. At the first Miscanthus plantation, established in 2023, the impact of industrial biochar Ideale on the Miscanthus phytotechnology was tested. In the second field, established in 2024, the impact of biochar received…
As part of working package 1 of the project, the team at TVHNPU, Ukraine established a vegetative experiment to study the impact of ash as a soil amendment to Miscanthus development. Ash for the experiment was received from the power station in which Miscanthus biomass produced at the TEs contaminated soil was under the physical-chemical…
In accordance with the working plan, the experiment on testing ash as it influences the Miscanthus growth process was established by UJEP team with the assistance of the Crop Research Institute in Chomutov. The contaminated ash was delivered from the Olsztyn power station being produced from the wood waste (special thanks to prof. Zolnowski, WMU,…
On April 26, 2024, the joint team from NULES and NULP, Ukraine, led by Dr. Tatyana Stefanovska, Co-Director from NULES, extended research M×g plantation in Vorzel, Bucha Rajon, Kyiv region, established in 2023 at the military site in the vicinity of Vorzel town, Bucha rajon, Kyiv region, Ukraine. In the extended field, the cooperative growth…
