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 ...

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 closeup image of a switchgrass root (colored in teal) seen through the lens of a confocal microscope. The fiery orange specks show the fluorescently-labeled microbes that work in tandem with the ...