News articles tagged with 'grass'
Biofuel grasslands better for birds than ethanol staple corn, researchers find
— 8 Jan 2011 13:51 | EnvironmentDeveloping biofuel from native perennials instead of corn in the Midwest's rolling grasslands would better protect threatened bird populations, Michigan State University research suggests…
Invading weed threatens devastation to western rangelands
— 12 Nov 2010 15:39 | EnvironmentA new field study confirms that an invasive weed called medusahead has growth advantages over most other grass species, suggesting it will continue to spread across much of the West,…
Gene discovery suggests way to engineer fast-growing plants
— 12 Nov 2010 14:54 | BiologyTinkering with a single gene may give perennial grasses more robust roots and speed up the timeline for creating biofuels, according to researchers at the Duke Institute for Genome…
Grasses have potential as alternate ethanol crop, Illinois study finds
— 2 Nov 2010 13:51 | EnvironmentMoney may not grow on trees, but energy could grow in grass. Researchers at the University of Illinois have completed the first extensive geographic yield and economic analysis of potential…
Termites foretell climate change in Africa's savannas
— 8 Sep 2010 12:24 | EnvironmentUsing sophisticated airborne imaging and structural analysis, scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology mapped more than 40,000 termite mounds over 192 square…
Nitrogen pollution alters global change scenarios from the ground up
— 1 Jul 2010 11:26 | EnvironmentAs atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, so does the pressure on the plant kingdom. The hope among policymakers, scientists and concerned citizens is that plants will absorb some…
Irish hares fall foul of modern farming trap
— 29 Jun 2010 09:32 | BiologyResearch from Queen's University Belfast has revealed the 20th century decline in the Irish hare population is almost certainly associated with changes in farming practices…
Saving the soil and maintaining corn yields: ISU early research says yes to both
— 16 Jun 2010 14:29 | EnvironmentTwo years into a study looking at methods of combining a living cover crop between corn rows shows that yield can be maintained at high levels using environmentally friendly practices…
Study: Grass, fungus combination affects ecology
— 16 Mar 2010 08:16 | BiologyThe popular forage and turf grass called tall fescue covers a vast amount of land in the U.S. - an area that's estimated to be larger than Virginia and Maryland combined - and a new…
Mapping a grass's genome to advance biofuels research
— 13 Feb 2010 20:46 | BiologyBiologist Samuel Hazen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of more than 100 researchers who collaborated to publish this week in Nature, the entire genome of the model…