Compiling a genome of an Asian grass is already producing useful results for breeding.
Tag - Miscanthus
Alun Salt
Collecting wild Miscanthus germplasm and research partners in Asia
While collecting plant material for crop breeding, a team from Aberystwyth University also thought hard about the human side of their work.
Fi Gennu
Growing biofuels in marginal land
A problem with growing biofuels is that they can take land needed for food. What happens when you start growing biofuels on marginal land where food crops are not possible?
Physiological basis of miscanthus chilling tolerance
The biomass crop Miscanthus x giganteus has a high chilling tolerance for a C4 plant, allowing for a longer productive growing season in temperate climates. The understanding of the mechanisms that underlie chilling...
botanyone
Gas exchange measurements on Miscanthus leaves
Miscanthus has a high yield potential, but even though it is less cold sensitive than other C4 species, it emerges later in spring than C3 species. Xiurong et al. identified one Miscanthus sacchariflorus with a level of...
Let’s plant elephant grass in France!
Miscanthus (a closely related species to sugar cane) denotes a herbaceous genus of plants, originating from South Asia and present in Africa too. This genus belongs to the Poaceae family (or Grasses). It is a long...
Antoine Le Gal
Aurélien Azam
Bioenergy crops
And more from the UK Plant Science Federation (UKPSF) conference (18th and 19th April, 2012, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK). Iain Donnison (Institute of Biological Environmental & Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth...
Nigel Chaffey