“…Due to its composition and structural characteristics, SCG are used as animal feed, activated carbon, carbonaceous materials, absorbents, etc., (Murthy and Naidu, 2012). SCG have also been employed as organic amendments for soils, both in their fresh form (Cruz et al, 2012(Cruz et al, , 2014a(Cruz et al, ,b, 2015Yamane et al, 2014;Hardgrove and Livesley, 2016;Cervera-Mata et al, 2018), and when composted (Cruz et al, 2014a,b).…”