Though researchers knew that switchgrass and
other perennial grasses have certain
advantages over maize, the study is the first to look at multiple ecosystem services and
animal populations at the same time, says Silvia Secchi, an agribusiness economist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
The breakthrough for the Visikol team was realizing that their formula is also capable of making
animal tissue transparent and that it has substantial
advantages over all
other techniques for this purpose.