Its first attempt to develop genetically engineered grass ended disastrously for the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company. The grass escaped into the wild from test plots in Oregon in 2003, dooming th... 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
“This technology could have a payback period of less than one year.” All chefs know that “you have to break some eggs to make an omelet,” and that includes engineers at Iowa State Univ... Read more
Amid efforts to expand production of biofuels, scientists are reporting new estimates that downgrade the amount of additional land available for growing fuel crops by almost 80 percen... 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
A gene that keeps switchgrass forever young could have far-reaching implications for the development of the plant as a biofuel crop, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists. I... Read more
Mountain Dew’s green bottles could become even “greener” with an announcement from PepsiCo claiming it has developed the world’s first polyethylene terephthalate (PET... Read more