Drumroll, please: Announcing the Perennial Plant of the Year for 2014. It's an upright and robust member of the switchgrass family (Panicum virgatum) known commonly as Northwind. Before a plant can be ...

Megan Fox, Colson Baker and Bruce Willis star in the upcoming crime-thriller Midnight in the Switchgrass Megan Fox and Colson Baker are heating up the screen in their new movie. PEOPLE is excited to ...

It's natural, it's all-American, it's a native that was here before any humans arrived, and it's green in many ways. It's switchgrass. We've blogged about this prairie grass that once stood taller ...

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Biofuels processors who mill switchgrass into fine bits to help its flowability should be able to save time, energy and money by not doing so, a new study shows. Biofuels processors who mill ...

Tim Reinbott, superintendent of the Bradford Research Center in Boone County, Mo, clutches a handful of switchgrass on March 17, 2015. Switchgrass is a perennial, warm-season grass that’s native to ...

AMES, Iowa -- Switchgrass has been a buzzword in renewable fuels for awhile, but Iowa State University researchers say miscanthus may be the answer. Iowa State agronomist Emily Heaton describes ...

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) a DOE Bioenergy Research Center led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made an ...

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 ...

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 ...