Bioenergy crop production and management encompass a multidisciplinary field that integrates agronomy, ecology, and economics to advance the sustainable supply of renewable energy. Recent ...

Drought stress has long been a limiting factor for crop production around the world, a challenge exacerbated by climate change. For more than a century, scientists have targeted a key plant trait ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Singapore has found that adding bioenergy crops or reforestation would both substantially increase CO 2 sequestration ...

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 ...

The regions in the United States where bioenergy crops would grow best while minimizing effects on aquatic ecosystems have now been outlined by a group of researchers. New research has identified ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has named University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientist Huang Li as one of 30 “New ...

URBANA, Ill. — Bioenergy crops such as miscanthus and switchgrass provide several environmental benefits, but low returns and profit risks are barriers for investment by farmers. A new study ...

The mix of bioenergy crop feedstocks that will be produced to meet this challenge, their relative costs and carbon intensities will depend on how the goals of the policy are specified, said Madhu ...

Irrigating bioenergy crops can create water stress. Soil quality and land degradation must also be considered. And transporting and processing biomass might create other emissions such as ...

The impact of global warming on crop yields could reduce the effectiveness of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage – a technology often touted as key for meeting the Paris Agreement warming ...

Reference: Cope KR, Prates ET, Miller JI, et al. Exploring the role of plant lysin motif receptor-like kinases in regulating plant-microbe interactions in the bioenergy crop Populus. Comp Structural ...