Marek, a plant physiologist, climbs out, clips a small GPS unit to her belt, and secures the floppy hat and biker glasses that shield her from the desert sun. She and Gerald Seiler, a research ...

FARGO - A sunflower seed seller being sued by a rival company for allegedly using false advertising has launched its own snack attack in federal court. Earlier this year, Giant Snacks, a sunflower ...

West Amwell resident Brian Moore breeds giants. Moore, a lifelong plant breeder and innovator, has been recognized by the ...

Gene flow from crop fields to wild populations produces hybrids that often differ from their wild counterparts in growth form, phenology, and life history characteristics. Germination and dormancy ...

Shopping for bird seed can be confusing, especially if you are new to the world of feeding backyard birds. That’s because there are a wide variety of bird species, and each has its own dietary wants ...

Tests of sunflowers show for the first time that a gene from a genetically engineered crop gives a wild, weedy relative an edge in life outdoors, say researchers. That extra toughness feeds worries ...

For just $10, a renter can plant a summer festival of bloom that will transform a yard into a colorful pollinator heaven. Anyone with a small patch of ground will find growing this plant from seed a ...

In the rugged Tumacácori mountain region 45 minutes south of Tucson, the Wild Chile Botanical Area (WCBA) was established in 1999 to protect and study the chiltepin pepper—the single wild relative of ...

Like the menu at Sean Sherman’s James Beard Award-winning restaurant Owamni, the recipes in “Turtle Island” abstain from using any colonial ingredients, such as wheat, sugar, chicken, beef and dairy.

A friend asked me recently if I had planted all the sunflowers in my yard. The answer is no. They are all volunteers that probably started with birds dropping seeds. For years I have let them grow ...

Comparison between crop and wild sunflower genes suggests that the plant followed an easy route to domestication. Archaeologists estimate that people transformed wild sunflowers into a user-friendly ...