Will switchgrass, a tall, resilient and fast-growing native plant once familiar to pioneers, become the next cash crop for farmers in states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage? In a convergence of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Researchers from Michigan State University believe they have taken a step toward cracking the source of another biofuel crop. The study, which was published in this ...

This native grass can capture atmospheric carbon in its substantial root system. While switchgrass has been seen as useful as a clean-burning source of renewable fuel, it also has the ability to pull ...

Alabama genetic researchers played a key role in groundbreaking new research into a growing source of fuel from plants that could help lessen America’s oil addiction. The plant is America’s native ...

Study points to traits and genes in controlling the root microbiome of switchgrass, a biofuel feedstock and native North American prairie grass. Plants provide a home for a wide diversity of microbes, ...

fawning coverage in the popular press -- though it has yet to be successfully converted into cellulosic ethanol -- switchgrass will soon have the chance to provide its renewably energy bonafides in ...

Erik J. Sacks is in the Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. The authors ...