When lettuce is mentioned, many think of the standard iceberg lettuce found in supermarkets and restaurant salads. That is changing with the growth in popularity of the different types of lettuces ...

If you're looking at your lawn and notice a few bare patches which have developed during the warmer months, you might be ...

Two types of seed surface, smooth and wrinkled, in the seed lot of Dialium guineense Willd, were nicked, immersed in hot water at 100 and 50 °C, soaked in HNO3 and H2SO4 and mechanically scarified to ...

Some seed corn can germinate and thrive in cold, wet spring soils. Some can’t. The challenge is to know which seed has a high enough germination rate to handle harsh weather conditions before you ...

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 21, No. 6 (December 2010), pp. 1069-1081 (13 pages) Question: Accumulation of litter can have serious implications on the recruitment of plant species, by modifying ...

Scientists have found that seed dormancy (a property that prevents germination under non-favorable conditions) was a feature already present in the first seeds, 360 million years ago. An international ...