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Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops Large perennial grasses such as miscanthus are a primary target for use as bioenergy crops because of their sustainability advantages, but they take several years to establish and aren’t ideal for crop rotation. Maize and other annual crops are easier to manage with traditional farming, but they are tougher on the environment. Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioener...

Energy Sorghum May Combine Best of Annual, Perennial Bioenergy Crops Details 07 January 2021 Share This Large perennial grasses like miscanthus are a primary target for use as bioenergy crops because of their sustainability advantages, but they take several years to establish and aren’t ideal for crop rotation. Large perennial grasses like miscanthus are a primary target for use as bioenergy crops because of their sustainability advantages, but they ...

Loading video... VIDEO: A team from the University of Illinois and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) found that some flag leaves of different varieties of rice transform light and carbon dioxide into... view more  Credit: Amanda Nguyen/RIPE project The flag leaf is the last to emerge, indicating the transition from crop growth to grain production. Photosynthesis in this leaf provides the majority of the carbohydrates needed for grain filling--so it is the most important le...

Forrest Czarnecki Photos Dec. 23, 2020   “This shit is just like the soil found on Mars! Someday we may be farming this shit, how cool is that?” Bo Collins exclaimed, displaying a bag of blush-colored soil for his Instagram account. A senior undergraduate student in the Soil and Crop Sciences program at Colorado State University, Collins has 2,000 or so fans, who tune into his livestream from as far away as Chile, Iran and Australia. They scour his page in search of entertaining ...

Native Plant Society of Texas honors Tarleton professor TSU Newsroom STEPHENVILLE — Tarleton State University professor James Muir, Ph.D., was presented this year’s Charles Leonard Weddle Memorial Award by the Native Plant Society of Texas for lifetime achievement in the field of Texas native plants. In addition to his work in the Tarleton Wildlife, Sustainability and Ecosystems Science Department, Muir is a grassland ecologist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in ...

Published: Friday, December 18, 2020 Walking rows of soybeans in the mid-summer heat is an exhausting but essential chore in breeding new cultivars. Researchers brave the heat daily during crucial parts of the growing season to look for plants showing desirable traits, such as early pod maturity. But without a way to automate detection of these traits, breeders cant test as many plots as theyd like in a given year, elongating the time it takes to bring new cultivars to market. In a new study f...

Mark and Tammy Allen rescued feral bees from a downed tree and took them in to pollinate their permaculture field, despite having minimal experience with beekeeping. URBANA — Walking rows of soybeans in the mid-summer heat is an exhausting but essential chore in breeding new cultivars. Researchers brave the heat daily during crucial parts of the growing season to look for plants showing desirable traits, such as early pod maturity. But without a way to automate detection of these traits, b...

 E-Mail IMAGE: University of Illinois scientists are getting closer to finding the genes for maleness in waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, two of the most troublesome agricultural weeds in the U.S. Finding the... view more  Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Scientists are getting closer to finding the genes for maleness in waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, two of the most troublesome agricultural weeds in the U.S. Finding the genes could enable new "genetic cont...

Rising Temperatures are Increasingly Thawing Permafrost Soils Written by AZoCleantechDec 11 2020 In the northern hemisphere, around one-quarter of the ground is permanently frozen. It has been estimated that these regions contain carbon that is almost twice as much as the Earths present atmosphere. Permafrost areas thaw out and become marshland. Image Credit: Monique Patzner. According to a new study, such permafrost soils are progressively thawing out as the planet becomes warmer and are emit...

This upcoming growing season, hemp producers will have additional testing options through the Soil, Water and Forage testing lab in College Station. One of the main hurdles with growing hemp in the state has been getting certified testing labs to test the potency of the crop. Larry Redmon, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension program leader for the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Bryan-College Station, leads the industrial hemp education team developed by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. “While we...