IIT-PKD Faculty's research contribution featured in NSF Research News
Dr Deepak Jaiswal, Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Engineering Centre (ESSENCE), was part of a new study that has found that growing one particular perennial grass could cut warming in the American Midwest by 1 degree Celsius.
Miscanthus x giganteus, also known as giant miscanthus, grows up to 10 feet tall with wide bamboo-like stems and green leaves, creating a canopy that's likely to lower regional summer temperatures while increasing humidity, rainfall and overall crop productivity, according to the recently published research. The link to the paper is https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcbb.12937.
The study, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and led in part by University of Maryland researchers, features in U.S. National Science Foundation's 'NSF Research News'.
