Venkatesan Sundaresan, a distinguished professor of plant biology and plant sciences at UC Davis, has been awarded a Gates Foundation grant to develop self-cloning crops for Indian farmers.The ...

Seed saving is an ancient tradition you can do at home with many plants and vegetables. But proper storage is essential, or ...

More than 40 growers nationwide are working to preserve heirloom seeds, along with the history, tradition, and identity they ...

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It's already time to start your garden. By starting seeds indoors now and next month, you can increase the variety of plants you can grow in your garden by extending the growing season and potentially ...

More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted just 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) in the sandy dunes of the Great Lakes. At the time, no one knew if the new ...

Gardening is a seedy business. I hope thistle cheer you up. (I’m trying really hard folks, to improve my humor. I’m skeptical. You’re skeptical. We’re all skeptical.) There’s saving the unused seeds ...

The Desert Botanical Garden is running a seed bank program to save endangered Arizona desert plants like orchids and cacti. Seeds from rare species are collected, sealed, and frozen in the Ahern ...

Ten million is a nice round number — all those lovely zeros! It seems like a huge number, too, but in some contexts it really isn’t. Consider the Native Plant Trust, the unusual Massachusetts ...