Grasses as lignocellulose biomass are promising feed stocks for renewable bioethanol
production, since these raw materials have high productivity, require low agricultural inputs …

With the advent of biorefinery technologies enabling plant biomass to be processed into
biofuel, many researchers set out to study and improve candidate biomass crops. Many of …

Miscanthus is a perennial wild grass that is of global importance for paper production,
roofing, horticultural plantings, and an emerging highly productive temperate biomass crop …

The role of polyploidy, particularly allopolyploidy, in plant diversification is a subject of
debate. Whole-genome duplications precede the origins of many major clades (eg …

This study reports the use of Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) for large-scale SNP
discovery and simultaneous genotyping of recombinant inbred lines (RILs) of an intra …

For the past several decades, advances in plant development, physiology, cell biology, and
genetics have relied heavily on the model (or reference) plant Arabidopsis thaliana …

The biomass demand to fuel a growing global bio-based economy is expected to
tremendously increase over the next decades, and projections indicate that dedicated …

A widespread criticism of growing energy crops is that they displace much needed food
crops and cause upward pressure on food prices. One solution is the use of marginal land …

Background and Aims Miscanthus is a perennial C4 grass that is a leading potential
feedstock crop for the emerging bioenergy industry in North America, Europe and China …

Miscanthus, a rhizomatous perennial plant, has great potential for bioenergy production for
its high biomass and stress tolerance. We report a chromosome-scale assembly of …