January 26, 2012
Students brief legislators on research projects
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- For the past year, Diana Black, a senior biology major at West Virginia University, has been fixated on sorghum.
Haven't heard of the crop-like plant that resembles sugarcane? Black hadn't either, until she began researching how sorghum could become a viable alternative-energy source for Appalachia a little more than a year ago.
Sorghum, a major grain crop that requires little water, possesses traits for biofuel production and could help prevent soil erosion and clean up chemicals from polluted mine sites, Black said.
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