Switchgrass is the perennial wonder plant touted by President Bush in Tuesday's State of the Union address and in his remarks made today in Nashville, Tenn., where he joked that he could have a ...

MSU researchers have discovered a way to allow the switchgrass plant to reach its full potential as a biofuel crop, following a discovery of one of its growth limitations.

Despite this obstacle, switchgrass holds great promise as a bioenergy feedstock because it is a native perennial plant, grows with high yields and requires little nitrogen and water.

Switchgrass Northwind has swept its way to the top as the Perennial Plant Association’s Perennial Plant of the Year for 2014. The Northwind cultivar of Panicum virgatum is distinguished by starkly ...

Michigan State University. (2019, June 10). Switchgrass hybrid yields insights into plant evolution. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 06 ...

After reading the common name of this week's plant, some of you might be saying, "Switch grass, I know I've heard of this plant before. It sounds so familiar." If switch grass sounds familiar to ...

Plants provide a home for a wide diversity of microbes, especially in their roots. In turn, these communities can provide important benefits for the host. This study investigated how the genetics of ...

Since President Bush slipped the seldom-heard term "switchgrass" into his 2006 State of the Union Address, the prairie grass has been in vogue. IE 11 is not supported.

Could plants like switchgrass be the answer to combating climate change? Some Bay Area researchers think so; here's a look at what they've uncovered.

He hopes the technology his company is developing will make ethanol derived from plants, including switchgrass, a viable alternative to gasoline. For now, the company is focusing its efforts on ...

The plant is America’s native switchgrass, the Alabama scientists work at Huntsville’s HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, and their work was published in the January edition of the ...

Researchers seek to breed plant varieties to increase the beneficial associations with bacteria. However, scientists have limited knowledge of the extent to which host genetics affect the composition ...