A multi-institutional team reports that it can increase sugarcane’s geographic range, boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel product... Read more
Miscanthus does almost as well in poor soils as in fertile cropland The first long-term U.S. field trials of Miscanthus x giganteus, a towering perennial grass used in bioenergy production,... Read more
Smith said that this ability to reduce the loss of nitrogen into the environment will prove to be greatly beneficial. Perennial biofuel crops such as miscanthus, whose high yields have led t... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Researchers have found a gene that promotes faster-growing and larger roots, which could lead to plants with a robuster ability to sequester excess atmospheric carbon Cha... Read more