Vermicomposting and anaerobic digestion – viable alternative options for terrestrial weed management – A review

•Management of terrestrial weeds is one of the key concerns in world wide.•These noxious weeds participate with crops with their natural resources.•Terrestrial weeds can be managed by anaerobic digestion and vermicomposting.•Most of these weeds contain high lignin.•Pretreatment is required to furthe...

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Published in:Biotechnology reports (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Netherlands), 2018-03, Vol.17 (C), p.70-76
Main Authors: Saha, Biswanath, Devi, Chaichi, Khwairakpam, Meena, Kalamdhad, Ajay S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Allelopathy
Anaerobic digestion
Biogas
Terrestrial weeds
Vermicomposting
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Summary:•Management of terrestrial weeds is one of the key concerns in world wide.•These noxious weeds participate with crops with their natural resources.•Terrestrial weeds can be managed by anaerobic digestion and vermicomposting.•Most of these weeds contain high lignin.•Pretreatment is required to further recovery of energy. The management of terrestrial weed is of great concern for the scientific community as these weeds cause adverse effect in different ecosystems like forest, agriculture and urban. The widespread of these weeds by their adaptive capability and morphological advancement is difficult to control. Parthenium hysterophorous, Lantana camara, Saccharum spontaneum, Ageratum conyzoides are the weeds that spread all over the world. There are various management practices employed for the control of this weeds. But all of these practices have some drawbacks those are neither environment friendly nor economical. In this paper a review has been done to evaluate various alternative management practices for these terrestrial weeds and to analyze their feasibility. Vermicomposting and anaerobic digestion can be viable alternative option which is cost effective as well. There are few studies regarding vermicomposting and anaerobic digestions of terrestrial weeds are done.
ISSN:2215-017X
2215-017X
DOI:10.1016/j.btre.2017.11.005