Shrubs and trees are best planted in autumn and winter, giving them time to put down roots so they’re ready to cope with ...

A Miscanthus farm walk and power station tour will explore how farmers are benefitting from a renewable crop that’s powering ...

From a broader agricultural perspective, that's a pretty undesirable tradeoff," Leakey said. But C4 crops—including sorghum, ...

Ornamental grass may not be the showstoppers of the border – in fact their appeal is quite subtle – but they do add an extra ...

As researchers discover new ways to engineer plants for biofuel production, the variety of biomasses continues to grow.

The scientists from Aberystwyth University were part of a global team to sequence the genome of miscanthus, known as elephant grass. Native to Africa and South Asia, it grows up to 10ft (3m ...

Genetically modifying sorghum crops to have fewer stomata increases resilience to drought, a new study has found.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The new President of the Newport and District Agricultural Society has been named as David Jones. David grew up on a farm ...

Incentives should be given to farmers to increase production of fuel crops like Miscanthus on marginal land. Even with electric vehicles, biofuels will still be needed for aviation and heavy goods ...

WHEN Chris Bonnett was a teenager, his sixth form business studies project was to see if a new phenomenon called ‘the ...

Bioinformatics is a field of study that uses computation to extract knowledge from biological data. It includes the collection, storage, retrieval, manipulation and modelling of data for analysis ...