Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image credits: Unsplash There is something quietly remarkable about a seed that refuses to sprout until it has lived through the ...

It is imperative for the success of the grape industry to develop new grape varieties capable of enduring shifting climates and heightened pressures from diseases and insects. The majority of grape ...

If you've ever been told to "wait for warm weather" before planting, you might assume seeds hate the cold. But here's a twist—some seeds actually thrive when the soil is chilly. That's right, while ...

A research team has found that cold-tolerant melon seeds (THY) maintained higher neutral invertase activity at low temperatures, enabling sustained sucrose decomposition into glucose, which supports ...

You might think gardening season begins only when the sun's blazing and you're breaking a sweat digging in warm earth—but some plants love to get a head start while you're still wearing a sweater.

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

Monarch butterfly caterpillars only eat leaves from the milkweed genus, Asclepias spp., so it’s critical for those butterflies that we try to grow as many of these plants as we can. Collecting ...