A long-lived perennial from the milkweed family, butterflyweed is native to much of North America. This drought-resistant ...

Oklahoma has 34 million acres of crop and pasture land, Fleischaker said. If just half of that land was used to grow high-yielding switchgrass for ethanol production, Oklahoma could produce the ...

Study points to traits and genes in controlling the root microbiome of switchgrass, a biofuel feedstock and native North American prairie grass. Plants provide a home for a wide diversity of microbes, ...

A new paper from MSU researchers in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science reveals why switchgrass stops photosynthesis in the middle of its growing season, limiting its potential as a biofuel crop.