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 ...

Alabama genetic researchers played a key role in groundbreaking new research into a growing source of fuel from plants that could help lessen America’s oil addiction. The plant is America’s native ...

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, ...