Flower and vegetable seed catalogs are arriving in the mailbox, and I am receiving email promotions from various flower and ...

A team of plant scientists has uncovered how a small yet powerful organ—the rootstock cotyledon—governs the success of graft healing in watermelon. Through a combination of physiological measurements, ...

Zinc (Zn) is a micronutrient considered essential to plants which can be supplied through seed treatment. The treatment of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] seeds with Zn, however, is still not well ...

The objective of this work was to study the in vitro organogenesis of Citrullus lanatus, by the induction of adventitious buds in cotyledon segments cultured in medium supplemented with cytokinin.

This cover highlights the article Bacterial effectors mediate kinase reprogramming through mimicry of conserved eukaryotic motifs by Ioanna Panagi, Katrin Rittinger, Teresa L.M. Thurston and ...

Summer is the best time for eating fresh, just-out-of-the-garden vegetables. Green beans, peas, corn, okra, squash, I could go on and on. Many of these plants produce seeds that we love. All plants ...

Succulents come in various shapes and sizes, often bearing the name of the real-world item they resemble—the string of bananas and hoya heart, to name a few. The pig’s ear succulent is another popular ...

The bean leaf beetle can occasionally be a destructive pest of soybean in the Midwest Bean leaf beetle adults are found in soybean throughout most of the season causing damage to soybean foliage ...

1 Mathematics Department, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, BC, Canada 2 Biotechnology Department, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, BC, Canada Results: This ...

Examine the baby plants inside the seeds we eat. Soaked in water, dried beans spring to life. Learn your way around a legume as you explore the various structures that protect and feed a developing ...

All species of flowering plants can be classified as either monocots or dicots, which refers to the number of cotyledons the plant embryo contains. The cotyledon is the portion of the plant embryo ...