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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...