A new role for fixture of prairie?

Kansas City Star | 02/05/2006 | A new role for fixture of prairie?:
by Rick Montgomery
"Technically, it's in anything that grows," said Matt Hartwig of the Renewable Fuels Association. But switch grass -- or panicum virgatum in textbooks that bother to cite it -- is a particularly proficient cellulose factory, shooting up fast and absorbing the sun's power for the energy it packs away in its cell walls.