By planting native varieties in October, you not only enhance the beauty and resilience of your garden but also support local ...

The remaining land near Chickasha and Maysville will be planted with a mix of switchgrass and sorghum. The crops from the Guymon fields will be used to feed a cellulosic ethanol plant currently ...

this time the twist is that the cellulosic ethanol feedstock will be switchgrass. Mascoma Corporation says that the five-million-gallon-a-year Tennessee plant, when it opens in 2009, would be the ...

A plant could be dormant or ready for the compost heap, but there are signs which should steer gardeners in the right ...

But through this work, they learned how certain genes in a particular plant, switchgrass, play a role in how the plant recruits its microbiome. Switchgrass is a hardy, tall grass that is extremely ...

More productive fuel crops could help as well. One is switchgrass, a plant native to North America's prairies that grows faster and needs less fertilizer than corn, the source of most ethanol fuel ...

Kernza is a perennial grain that can produce an annual crop, even as it stays in the ground for up to four years. Its deep ...

More productive fuel crops could help as well. One is switchgrass, a plant native to North America's prairies that grows faster and needs less fertilizer than corn, the source of most ethanol fuel ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Cellulose is an important structural material for plants, and it is made up of many repeating sugar units. These repeating sugar units can be broken down by various processes into the component ...