Science news articles about 'native grasses'

... and forage for many native species; and also they are attractive and colorful." He stressed that using native grasses is more economical for golf courses. "Establishing natural areas can reduce water ...

... system to pump salt water into trays of grass to ensure consistent salt levels, starting ... hopes to develop. "It seems to do better than our native grasses," Brown said. "We should just use it because ...

Soils with native grasses such as switchgrass have higher levels of a key soil component called glomalin than soils planted to non-native grasses.

... . He wants to try to determine where the diseases cross, transmissibility by vectors, host ranges such as native grasses and conservation reserve program grasses, yield loss due to single and dual ...

... for the vault anniversary include samples of 32 varieties of potatoes in addition to oat, wheat, barley, and native grass species from two of Ireland's national gene banks. Ireland ...

HOUGHTON, Mich., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Using prairie plants to produce bio-energy would help bird populations threatened by the conversion of grasslands to corn, scientists in Michigan said.