Science news articles about 'prairie plants'

... is being transformed. One potential solution: Use diverse native prairie plants to produce bioenergy instead of a single ... such as switchgrass and big bluestem. The natural diversity of prairie plants offers many benefits, including increased ...

... suffering from chronic neuropathic pain," adds Dr. Ware. The study used herbal cannabis from Prairie Plant Systems (under contract to Health ...

... compared two approaches to bioenergy feedstocks: monocultures of annuals, such as corn, or perennial cultures of prairie plants and grasses. Because diverse ...

... at The Evergreen State College who studies forests and prairies. She and her collaborator, environmental scientist ... at The Evergreen State College, are studying rare prairie plants at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center ...

... , McClain said. This repeated burning actually stabilized the prairies and open woodlands that dominated the region until ... woodlands," with limited shade and even a few prairie plants growing in the understory had become a dense ...

... the crop. Canadian medicinal marijuana is currently produced under Health Canada contract with Prairie Plant Systems, a biotechnology company based ...

Vegetation, such as a patch of prairie or a forest stand, is more productive in the long run when more plant species are present ... or 16 different species of plants. The research used long-lived prairie plants, but serves as a model ...