Louisiana researchers extending growing range of energy cane northwards

In Louisiana, researchers at the LSU AgCenter’s Audubon Sugar Institute have received $1.38 million in funds from BP and the US Department of Energy to study means of lowering the extraction of sugars from cellulose in energy cane, sugarcane bagasse, sweet sorghum and miscanthus. The researchers have developed several strains of energy cane that can be grown in higher latitudes than sugar cane, which previously had been confined to southern Louisiana, as well as Florida and Hawaii.

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