Stover is the parts of a corn plant that remain after grain harvest. Greenhouse gases from cropfields are released into the atmosphere when carbon escapes disturbed soils during stover removal.

When corn stover is processed to make cellulosic ethanol, everything is ground down and blended together. But a research team found that three distinct parts of the stover -- the rind, pith and ...

The Seven Wonders of the Corn Yield World produce a whole far greater than the individual parts, but which of the Seven Wonders can be deployed on multiple applications to obtain multiple ...

The corn stover is first freed from its baling and shredded. The strips of corn leaves and chunks of corncob are then bathed in sulfuric acid to begin breaking them down into fibers.

CornBoard is an environmentally-friendly wood substitute made from corn stover, the plant debris left in the field after the corn is harvested. It's coming to Iowa next year.

NEVADA, Iowa — A Story County company is finding new ways to create natural gas for utilities like Alliant Energy. It's made using corn stover. That’s the leftover corn stalks gathered after ...

Front and rear attachments allow a conventional combine to harvest corn stover or cobs, as well as grain. Ethanol producer Poet is already generating ethanol from corncobs on a pilot scale and ...

ISU, DuPont partner on corn stover supply chain research AMES, Iowa — The DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol facility at Nevada will begin operating this year.

The waste products of corn – stover, as it is called – is the basis for the Virginia tech hydrogen production, where the researchers used an enzymatic process to break the stover down into ...

To advance that knowledge, they evaluated how well the fungus broke down the different parts of corn stover and improved the sugar yield.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Not all parts of a corn stalk are equal, and they shouldn't be treated that way when creating cellulosic ethanol, say Purdue University researchers. When corn stover is ...