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News Release 11-176
Testing the Water for Bioenergy Crops
Water significant limiting factor in growing crops like switchgrass
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Landscape of the midwestern U.S. in early autumn; a mosaic of row crops like corn and soybean.
Credit: Praveen Kumar
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Scientists Praveen Kumar and Phong Le at a miscanthus research plot in Champaign, Ill.
Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Bioenergy crops such as switchgrass and miscanthus respond differently to rain, dew and sun.
Credit: Praveen Kumar
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Experiment: Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment shows plants' response to climate change.
Credit: Praveen Kumar
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Free Air Concentration Experiment results predict plants' responses to higher carbon dioxide.
Credit: Praveen Kumar
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Climate change will affect canopy temperature in places like this soybean field.
Credit: Praveen Kumar
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