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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ears of glass gem corn (aka Zea mays), colorful ears of corn that are bred and grown to be used for decoration, popcorn, and grinding into cornmeal and cornflour. Bright yellow ears of corn on display ...

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

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 ...

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 a powerful evolutionary genomic ...