Mother Nature is unpredictable and extreme weather can take its toll on plants. Discover rugged perennials and shrubs that ...

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 ...

Researchers are studying the viability of switchgrass, a salt-tolerant plant, as a potential alternative crop for farmers facing saltwater intrusion. Switchgrass could be used as a feedstock for ...

A tractor driven by Curt Raines of Hitch Farms in Guymon, Okla., plants switchgrass in a wheat field southeast of Guymon. The Noble Foundation is funding the planting of 1,000 acres of switchgrass ...

to test the viability of switchgrass as an alternative. "It's a native grass. It's fairly tolerant to salts if it can grow in these salty conditions. And if we actually can harvest it in these ...

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