Their three-year-old wholesale business is thriving because a plant-hungry public wants new perennials and alternatives to grass.
There are plenty of alternative perennial food crops available.
Jpn1 and Jpn2 accessions as representatives of alternative perennials were characterized for anther length, awn size, spikelet size, number of spikelets, and panicle size.
The two alternative perennials, the Jpn1 and Jpn2 groups, are probably best considered as new and distinct species that diverged a long time ago.
The sassy fringe of the newspaper industry is now getting attention from private investors who have come to believe that alternative weeklies, perennial prodigals, are reservoirs of value.
For his long-range view and persistence, you have to love Wes Jackson, whose Land Institute is advancing perennial agriculture as an alternative to input-heavy annual monoculture.
During three years, we recorded seedling density of perennial species in four alternative degradation states in grass-shrubby steppes from northwestern Patagonia.
In this report, we identified two alternative types of perennial accessions at the morphological and molecular levels in Australia.
The Land Institute is rethinking agriculture by developing perennial grains, a multi-year alternative to soil-eroding annual crops.
However, there are alternative types of perennials based on their nuclear genotypes.
