CORVALLIS – It’s discouraging when your lettuce bolts or you can’t get your mum to bloom. There’s a reason for that, and it’s all about day length, which determines or how much light the plant gets.

Plants don’t develop based on the calendar date but rather on the duration of darkness. The length of the nights dictates ...

WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything ...

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The massive derecho that swept across parts of five Midwest states in August 2020 spawned 125 mph-plus straight-line winds, torrential rain and large hail. In the process, the storm damaged millions ...

Short-lived plant species are more sensitive to climate change than long-lived ones, researchers found out. The international team compiled comprehensive worldwide available data on how plant ...

Plants such as poinsettia and Christmas cactus are common holiday gifts. Can they continue to grace your home after the holidays? Some can’t, some can — but each will behave differently. “Most gift ...