Several years ago, farmers had a pretty good financial incentive to grow switchgrass. Now, they’re looking for a new market to justify planting the lush, warm season grass. Will Brandau, chairman of ...

Which varieties of switchgrass have sufficient biomass and low enough levels of ash to be turned into high-quality ethanol, a biofuel for cars sometimes called “grassoline”? Can tree rings from trunk ...

Roughly half of all flowering plants are “polyploid,” meaning that they have more than two sets of chromosomes, which contain the plants’ genes and DNA. Scientists believe that polyploidy is a major ...

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 ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota State University is teaming up with a California biotechnology company to develop commercial varieties of switchgrass adapted to the Northern Great Plains.