Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode ...

La Jolla scientists explore the genetics of wildflower seeds to see how they survive over potentially hundreds of years and how they ‘decide’ to germinate ...

The evolution of seeds transformed life on earth and is responsible for our most important food crops. Gymnosperms, the oldest living seed plants, are an untapped genomic reservoir for genes involved ...

The domestication of grapevine was a slow process in Italy, according to the study. (Jill Wellington/Pexels via Courthouse News) (CN) — Italian wine is prominent in the world of grape cultivation, but ...

What do humans have in common with the dinosaurs that trampled through ancient forests? It turns out that both may have a surprising impact on the size of seeds in the fruits growing around them. When ...

What came first, the chicken or the egg? The answer is… the egg came before the chicken. We know that because all the ancient relatives of chickens hatched out of eggs for hundreds of millions of ...

Introduction -- Ecologically meaningful germination studies -- Types of seeds and kinds of seed dormancy -- Germination ecology of seeds with nondeep physiological dormancy -- Germination ecology of ...