Most prime agricultural land is used to produce food crops, leaving biofuel producers to establish crops on marginal land. The soil on marginal land is often salty, making crop production difficult.

Invasion by exotic cordgrass has hampered the conservation of native wetlands in China’s major protected coastal areas, an international team led by Fudan University’s coastal ecology lab found after ...

When D.K. Lee and Lane Rayburn, faculty members in the crop sciences department at the University of Illinois, talk about prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata) they have difficulty containing their ...

South Dakota State University researchers have won a major federal grant to help them map the genes of prairie cordgrass, a native grass that could be used to make cellulosic ethanol. South Dakota ...

The tidal flats of the Fraser delta are being menaced by highly invasive, non-native cordgrass that is threatening to turn rich ecosystems into a monoculture. Fast colonizing common cordgrass—Spartina ...

On an island in Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River in China, a modern-day Great Wall is planned to thwart invaders. This time, however, the enemy is a marauding weed — and the US$163-million ...

Droughts are increasing in severity and frequency, yet the mechanisms that strengthen ecosystem resilience to this stress remain poorly understood. Here, we test whether positive interactions in the ...

ALAMEDA — The stretch of bright green meadow at the Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary along Alameda’s shoreline is doomed to wither starting next month. Waving in the breeze, the 7-foot-tall cordgrass is a ...

Most prime agricultural land is used to produce food crops, leaving biofuel producers to establish crops on marginal land. The soil on marginal land is often salty, making crop production difficult.

URBANA -- When D.K. Lee and Lane Rayburn, faculty members in the crop sciences department at the University of Illinois, talk about prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata) they have difficulty ...